Caldeira is designer and manufacturer primarily of cushions and curtains, Other products include cushion covers, seat pads, and bed sets.Caldeira attaches its own The Cushion Factory brand to its products, which include cushions, seat pads, throws, and curtains. Caldeira's two factories supply retail stores such as Bhs and Homebase. The company also operates a manufacturing subsidiary in China called Hao Sheng Textiles. Managing director Tony Caldeira has helped transform his namesake company, which was founded in 1991 as a small family business making cushions from home, into a leading UK textile manufacturer.

Barlow Sheet Metal has the low-down on all the ways to process sheet metal for just about any application. Established in 1974, the company provides precision sheet metal fabrication, largely for the electronics industry. Its operations are driven by a computer numerical controlled (CNC) punching/programming tool that creates the complex series of steps for making the end sheet metal product. Barlow's production capacity stretches from cutting to punching, bending, de-burring and surface finishing, welding, as well as insert assembly. Products include air powered sheet metal shears, assembled components, brass sheet metal panel chips, clip-jointed metal ducting, and electronic equipment metal casings.

Connell Limited Partnership has had a mind for acquisition. It keeps mega funds available for investment in and operation of manufacturing companies with growth opportunities in the aluminum alloy and industrial equipment sectors. Connell's primary businesses -- Anchor Danly (die sets and die makers' supplies), and Dayton Progress (metal stamping tools) -- serve customers in aerospace, appliance, automotive, electronics, and housing. In 2009 Connell shifted its interest away from power and process industries; late that year it sold its heat transfer equipment business, Yuba Heat Transfer, to a subsidiary of SPX for about $125 million.

CIRCOR International, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of valves and other engineered products and sub-systems. The company operates in three segments: Energy, Aerospace, and Flow Technologies. The Energy Segment offers flanged-end and threaded-end floating and trunnion ball valves, needle valves, check valves, butterfly valves, forged steel ball valves, gate valves, control valves, relief valves, pressure regulators, pipeline measurement, and pipeline closures for use in oil, gas and chemical processing, and industrial applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of KF, Contromatics, Pibiviesse, Mallard Control, Hydroseal, Sagebrush, and Pipeline Engineering. The Aerospace segment offers precision valves, control valves, relief valves, solenoid valves, couplers, regulators, switches, DC electric motors, and aerospace landing gears for military and commercial aerospace applications. This segment provides its products under the brand names of Aerodyne Controls, Circle Seal Controls, Loud Engineering, Industria, Atkomatic Valve, Survival Engineering, Motor Technology, Bodet Aero, and Atlas Productions. The Flow Technologies segment offers precision valves, compression tube fittings, control valves, relief valves, butterfly valves, couplers, regulators, strainers, and sampling systems for instrumentation, cryogenic, and steam applications.

Founded in 1928, STRATCO, Inc. is owned by president Diane Graham. Doing business as STRATCO GLOBAL, STRATCO company makes and services process equipment for manufacturers in the grease, chemicals, roofing, and petrochemicals industries worldwide. Its lineup boasts the STRATCO Contactor reactor, for processing lubricating greases, and the Modified Asphalt Contactor reactor, used in producing roofing materials. STRATCO's family includes ECOPATH Contracting and ECOPATH Industries, suppliers of asphalt rubber blending equipment for paving markets. STRATCO also offers design and engineering services.

Cinetic Sorting Corp. company makes automated sorting machines used by logistics and retail customers. Among the businesses that use its products are postal agencies and courier services, airports, and distribution centers (from food distributors to newspapers). Cinetic Sorting is the US regional headquarters of Fives; other operations are based in Italy and Japan. Cinetic Sorting was formed when Sandvik sold its Sorting Systems business to the Cinetic Industries (now Fives Cinetic) subsidiary of Fives.

Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec GmbH designs and manufactures equipment for the fertilizer and petrochemical industries. Its products include urea synthesis products, such as heat exchangers and reactors, strippers, scrubbers, pool-condensers, pool-reactors, falling film condensers, internals, and pipe-spools; and ammonia synthesis vessels, such as converter shells, synthesis loop heat exchangers, and waste heat boilers. The company also provides heat exchangers, reactors, separators, and columns for the chemical and petrochemical industry. In addition, it offers installation and in-situ repair services; replacement parts services, such as seals, screws, and various semifinished products, including plates, pipes, pipe bends, and fittings; and monowall designs pressure vessels.

Komori Corporation is one of the world's top makers of offset printing presses and the only maker of currency printers based in Japan. Komori Corporation company makes sheetfed presses (accounting for more than half of sales), web offset presses, currency and securities printing equipment, and packaging printing machinery. Komori -- which sells its products in more than 80 countries -- boasts customers that include the Japan Ministry of Finance, Dai Nippon Printing, and Toppan Printing. While sales in Japan have fallen in recent years, sales in Europe and other parts of Asia continue to grow.

HD Supply Waterworks is a US distributor of water, sewer, storm drain, and fire protection products. The company supplies a lineup of pipes, fittings, meters, valves, and hydrants used in the building, repair, and water maintenance and wastewater programs. It operates more than 265 branches across the US and has a fleet of more than 1,000 delivery trucks. It buys from about 3,500 suppliers and sells to more than 26,000 customers. Municipal clients and allied contractors account for a large share of the company's sales. The company is a subsidiary of HD Supply, which is owned by private equity firms: Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.

Daifuku Co., Ltd. company straddles three business segments. Its Logistics Systems comprise auto factory automation, making conveyor systems for producing cars; factory and distribution automation, supplying storage, sorting and picking, and transport; and electronic factory automation, including clean room transport and storage. An Electronics segment makes interface boards for industrial computers. Car wash to bowling equipment is covered, too, by the Other segment. A fourth business, US affiliate Jervis B. Webb, specializes in baggage handling systems. Sales offices dot Japan and 19 countries.

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