Toromont Industries runs a heavy equipment business in a very compressed way. It distributes mobile equipment and industrial engines, and fabricates and installs gas compression units, energy process systems, and refrigeration products. The Equipment Group sells Caterpillar and other branded construction lines in Canada and the US. Activities include supplying power generation equipment, replacement parts, and support services, as well as renting heavy machinery. The Compression Group focuses on recreational and industrial refrigeration (used by the National Hockey League, and food-processors) through CIMCO Refrigeration, and hydrocarbon and petrochemical process systems and compression units through Enerflex.

Pioneer Metal Finishing proves its mettle by finishing the metal products of others. Pioneer Metal Finishing offers a range of metal finishing techniques, from bright dip anodizing to clear and dyed anodizing, hard lubing, and electroless nickel plating. Its finishes also include acid etch, dry film lubricants, and chromate conversion. Customers -- OEMs and job shops -- operate predominantly in commercial and industrial markets that require parts with increased wear and corrosion resistance, lubricity, heat dissipation, or dielectric properties. Pioneer Metal has divisions in six US cities, each within 300-miles of core customers, or the distance its fleet of tractor trailers can reasonably pick up and deliver metal goods.

X-Ray Industries didn't need to wait for Sarbanes-Oxley to come along to make its business more transparent. X-Ray Industries operates three X-ray-related divisions. Its Test Equipment Distributors unit distributes nondestructive testing (NDT) equipment and supplies. Typical products include X-ray inspection equipment, magnetic particle inspection equipment, ultrasonic equipment, and liquid penetrant inspection equipment. It also sells used equipment. A second subsidiary, X-R-I Testing offers NDT inspection services to clients. A third unit, Mobile X, offers onsite inspections.

Since the 1830's, there has been industrial activity on the current site of the Blue Heron Paper Mill. At times, the site has been used as a flour mill, a sawmill, a brick operation, a woolen mill and a paper mill. The Oregon City mill as it is today started in 1908 as the Hawley Pulp and Paper Mill. W.P. Hawley bought the mill and adjacent properties and eventually installed four paper machines to produce a variety of paper products including fruit wrap, bread paper, wrapping paper, toweling, bags and newsprint.Ownership transferred to the Los Angeles Times as Publishers Paper Co. and then to Jefferson Smurfit Corporation. The Oregon City mill led the Pacific Northwest into the reclamation of old newspapers with a 25 ton/day deinking plant in 1975. Today, old newspapers and magazines comprise over half our raw materials.Blue Heron Paper Co. can recycle over 600 tons per day of newsprint, magazines and other paper and make a variety of grades of newsprint, high bright specialty papers, converting and bag papers.

Industrial Distribution Group (IDG), a supplier of maintenance, repair, operating, and production products (MROP) -- including abrasives, cutting tools, hand and power tools, lubricants, and adhesives -- to industrial, commercial, and institutional manufacturers. IDG has a portfolio of more than 400,000 different products drawn from more than 10,000 suppliers; it sells to an active customer base of 15,000 companies, including Boeing, Caterpillar, Dell, Honeywell, Kennametal, and PPG. IDG has 14 distribution locations in North America and China.

Simpson Strong-Tie manufactures steel connectors for wood, concrete, and masonry that help keep buildings standing. The company's reinforcement products include anchors, angles, bases, caps, connectors, fasteners, and hangers; it also offers prefabricated shearwalls, powder-actuated tools, and adhesives. The Home Depot is its largest customer. The company, which has been making connectors since 1956, is a subsidiary of Simpson Manufacturing. It serves customers in the commercial and residential construction, furniture, and do-it-yourself markets. Simpson Strong-Tie has manufacturing and warehouse operations in North America, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific region.

Kalamazoo Fabricating makes electrical panels, controls and drive components using its media blasting, painting facilities, and various lathes, mills, and saws. A division of Envirodyne Technologies, the company has expertise in the areas of custom equipment fabrication, coolant filtration, material handling systems, conveyors, and wash systems. Products are finished using dedicated media blasting (glass bead, sand, walnut shell, etc.) and paint. Kalamazoo Fabricating's installation of controls, drive components, and electrical panels take place at its plant's final assembly building. Industrial conveyor maker PRAB acquired Envirodyne in May 2008.

Comau sure is hoping robots are the wave of the future. The subsidiary of the diversified Italian manufacturer Fiat Group makes automation systems for the aerospace and automotive industries. Its main products include assembly and welding equipment, sheet metal dies, handling systems, and molds used to form plastic. Comau company also manufactures large assembly-line robots. It divides its business into four units: injection molding and dies; powertrain systems; body welding and assembly; and robotics, final assembly, and service. In addition to Fiat, Comau's customers include Ford Motor.

Hog Slat provides a slew of swine-related product and services. The company manufactures pig farming equipment, including floor slabs and tiles, as well as hog penning, breeding, feeding, handling, and watering supplies. It also provides construction services for hog stalls (farrowing crates) and raises some 400,000 hogs per year at its own facilities. Hog Slat company is owned and run by the Herring family. Hog Slat has two sister companies, HSM Metal Fabrication and Parking Bumper Company, a manufacturer of concrete bumpers for parking spaces.

A.Raymond Tinnerman Manufacturing. Formerly known as Tinnerman Palnut Engineered Products.The company makes some 2,000 types of standard and specialty metal and plastic fasteners, including speed nuts (one-piece nut and washer units). The company's fastener lineup also includes spring steel, multi- and single-thread, and clamps and cable clips. It also offers custom-molded items, such as those used for automotive headlight adjustors. Customers include GE, Lear, Mattel, and Toyota. The company, founded in 1870 as Tinnerman Stove Company, developed the speed nut in 1936. In 2005 it acquired two factories from Textron Fastening, and was itself picked up by A. Raymond & Cie in 2009.

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