President Bill Kuban owns the company his father, Kurt Kuban, founded in 1946. Kurt Manufacturing makes close-tolerance, precision-machined parts and components on a contract basis for the aerospace, defense, automotive, oil, and semiconductor machining markets. Kurt operates through divisions including Hydraulics, Engineered Systems, Kinetic, Chipmunk, and Workholding. These divisions manufacture chip recycling equipment, gaging systems, hydraulic coupling and hoses, vises and other workholding tools and bicycle training products. The company is also a manufacturing partner of DeltaHawk Engines, producing engines that operate on jet fuel and range from 150- to 200-plus horsepower.

Siam Steel Syndicate produces steel products for use in a variety of industries. Its menu of offerings includes round and deformed bars, steel wire rods, rectangular and square tubes, and round pipes. An affiliate of Italian-Thai Development, Siam Steel Syndicate was established in 1984 and has since become a leading producer of steel products in Thailand. In recent years the company has allied with other domestic steel products heavyweights -- including Millennium Steel, Bangkok Iron Steel Works, and Nova Steel in an effort to supply additional steel products to offset skyrocketing prices.

The Hitachi Metals manufactures high-grade metal casting components, such as automotive parts (aluminum road wheels, heat-resistant cast exhaust manifolds, and magnetic compass sensors), IT components and materials (antenna switch modules, isolators, and linear motors), and piping and infrastructure products (fire protection piping systems, gas piping, and mass flow controller and metal diaphragm valves), which are used in the automotive, construction, and electronics industries. Hitachi Metals gets more than two-thirds of its sales in Japan.

Kaman Industrial Technologies (KIT) can help you get your bearings. As the industrial distribution arm of Kaman Corp., the company touts high-efficiency hybrid bearings, energy sipping motors, as well as biodegradable lubricants and process-optimizing condition-monitoring devices. The short list includes power transmissions, material handling equipment, motion control systems, and other electrical parts. KIT stocks more than three million items by brands such as Baldor Electric, Rockwell Automation, and Sumitomo. Serving some 50,000 customers in North America, KIT offers programs on energy audits, predictive maintenance, and OEM parts conversion. Its geographic footprint is growing through acquisitions.

Highway Holdings makes metal and plastic parts and subassemblies for German, Japanese, and US manufacturers, including Braun, Casio, and Swatch. It also manufactures finished products such as LED lights and radio chimes. Highway Holdings' metal stamping business offers spray painting, screen printing, and plastic injection molding. To focus on its core business, the company exited its singe use camera, clock, and watch operations and sold off rights to the Kienzle brand of clocks. Although Highway Holdings operates factories in China, Europe accounts for about about 50% of sales.

Nilfisk-Advance A/S is part of the NKT group of companies. Tracing its roots to the early 1900s, the company has grown to rival the world's top manufacturers of professional cleaning equipment. Nilfisk-Advance makes and sells a slew of vacuums, including backpack vacuums branded Backuum, scrubber-dryers, ride-on sweepers and burnishers, and carpet extractors. Nilfisk offers financing and purchase programs to contract cleaners and after-sales services. Through a network of dealers and branches, Nilfisk-Advance equipment is marketed worldwide to contract cleaners, institutions, building and construction business, and private households.

Stora Enso Oyj engages in producing paper, packaging, and forest products worldwide. It operates in six segments: Newsprint and Book Paper, Magazine Paper, Fine Paper, Consumer Board, Industrial Packaging, and Wood Products. The Newsprint and Book Paper segment produces newsprint, improved newsprint, and directory and book paper for publishers and printing houses. Its book and directory paper range includes paper for hardback and paperback books, telephone directories, and timetables. The Magazine Paper segment offers a range of paper for magazines and advertising applications. Its uncoated magazine paper is primarily used in periodicals and advertising material, such as inserts and flyers; and coated magazine paper is used in special interest and general interest magazines. The Fine Paper segment produces graphic and office paper. Its office paper grades include copy paper, printing paper, envelope paper, paper used in schools, notebooks and blocks, business forms for continuous stationery, and digital printing paper. The Consumer Board segment produces liquid packaging, food service, graphical, and carton boards used in packaging food, beverages, cigarettes, pharmaceuticals, media products, household products, cosmetics, and luxury items. The Industrial Packaging segment produces corrugated packaging, containerboard, cores and coreboard, laminating paper, paper sacks, and sack and MG kraft paper. The Wood Products segment focuses on the construction, joinery, and packaging industries, and provides customized products for manufacturing processes. This segment also supplies a range of sawn and processed wood products to timber retailers, merchants, and importer-distributors. The company’s customers include publishers, printing houses, and paper merchants, as well as the packaging, joinery, and construction industries. Stora Enso Oyj was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Quick Cable Corporation company, founded in 1946, makes electrical battery connectors, cable assemblies, electrical fuses, and wire cutting and crimping tools. Quick Cable's market is larger than car owners -- it makes cables and related tools for battery-powered commercial and industrial equipment such as fuel cells and computer backup systems. Quick Cable Corporation company operates two manufacturing facilities, one in Franksville, Wisconsin, and the other in Mississauga, Ontario. Quick Cable was formed as a lead-acid battery maker in 1956

The Manitowoc Crane Group makes up the largest part of the Manitowoc Co.'s business, some 60% of the parent's total sales, by manufacturing and distributing a range of crawler cranes. The group has evolved though the acquisitions of Potain (tower cranes), Grove, Shuttlelift, and Dongyue (mobile telescopic cranes), and National Crane (hydraulic telescoping cranes). Core markets for the Group are energy and utilities, infrastructure (road and airport construction), as well as commercial and residential building. Under the Crane Care brand, Manitowoc Crane sells maintenance and repair, and parts supply service.

B.E.W. Electrical Distributors (BEW) can't move heaven and earth, but it can move cable and lights. The electrical wholesaler distributes third-party products such as cable management systems, cable and wiring, closed circuit TVs, HVAC equipment, lamps and lighting fixtures, smoke detectors and emergency lighting, switches, and tools. BEW's distributes other goods including antennas, clocks, and refrigerators. B.E.W. Electrical Distributors company also sells lighting, security, ventilation, and wiring products under its own IMPACT brand. BEW operates from branches throughout the UK.

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