Sumitomo Rubber is on a roll and stays in the swing of things just sitting on the dock of a bay. A key player in the Sumitomo Rubber Group, Sumitomo Rubber Industries company is Japan's #2-maker of passenger, truck, and racecar tires. Its line offers aluminum car wheels, too. Sumitomo Rubber allies with Goodyear Tire & Rubber to make and sell Goodyear-brands in Japan, and Goodyear makes and markets Sumitomo's Dunlop brand tires in North America and Europe. Procurement and technological development are also linked. Sumitomo's smaller sister operations, SRI Sports, makes golf and tennis gear and SRI Hybrid, industrial wares such as precision rubber components for office automation equipment and marine products, dock fenders to skirts.

Komatsu Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of industrial-use products and services worldwide. The company operates in two segments, Construction, Mining, and Utility Equipment; and Industrial Machinery and Others. The Construction, Mining, and Utility Equipment segment offers excavating equipment, such as hydraulic excavators, mini excavators, and backhoe loaders; loading equipment, including wheel, mini wheel, and skid-steer loaders; grading and roadbed preparation equipment comprising bulldozers, motor graders, and vibratory rollers; and hauling equipment that include off-highway and articulated dump trucks, and crawler carriers. It also provides forestry equipment, such as harvesters, forwarders, and feller bunchers; tunneling machines, including shield machines, tunnel-boring machines, and small-diameter pipe jacking machines; recycling equipment comprising mobile debris crushers, mobile soil recyclers, and mobile tub grinders; industrial vehicles, such as forklift trucks; railroad maintenance equipment; engines and components, including diesel engines, diesel generator sets, and hydraulic equipment; steel castings and iron castings; and logistics services, such as packing and transport. In addition, this segment provides equipment rental services.

EnPro company's Sealing Products segment offers gaskets, metal and non-metal seals, compression packing, rotary lip seals, elastomeric seals, hydraulic components, expansion joints, and PTFE parts. Its Engineered Products segment makes bearings, air compressors, vacuum pumps, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial tooling systems under GGB and Compressor Products International brands. EnPro company's Engine Products and Services segment makes heavy-duty, medium-speed diesel and natural gas engines under the Fairbanks Morse Engine brand name. EnPro Industries nets a little more than half of its sales in the US.

Rexam PLC, a consumer packaging company, provides beverage packaging and plastic packaging solutions to the beverage, personal care, healthcare, and food markets primarily in Europe, North and South Americas, and the Asia-Pacific rim. The company offers beverage cans used for beer, fizzy drinks, soft drinks, juices, sports and energy drinks, water, wine, spirit mixers, and iced tea and coffee. It also offers plastic packaging solutions, including asthma inhalers, pumps, valves, eye droppers, dry powder-inhalers, nasal sprays, child resistant closures, pill jars, and tablet dispensers for various pharmaceutical applications; and specialty plastic closures and containers for food, beverage, household, and healthcare industries; and multi-layer high-barrier bowls and trays for shelf stable foods. In addition, the company provides dispensing systems, such as samplers, lotion pumps, fragrance pumps, and complete packages for personal care markets; and beauty products packaging products, such as spray samplers, lipstick and mascara cases, fragrance closures, compacts, and fine-mist pumps. Further, it offers precision plastic components and assemblies; and product design and finishing services, such as packaging assembly and decoration services.

Wheeling Corrugating still displays nerves of steel.The Niche manufacturer produces roll formed steel products. The lineup includes galvanized roofing and siding, steel roof decks, as well as bridge highway decking, galvanized sheet, painted coil products for HVAC use, and even pre-engineered metal buildings. Fabrication depends primarily on galvanized steel, produced at a Wheeling-Pittsburgh plant, and to a lesser extent on full-hard cold rolled steel. Wheeling Corrugating's 14 plants dot the US, serving bridge and highway building, construction, residential, and agricultural markets. The company is a business division of Severstal Wheeling, Inc.

The 50/50 joint venture combines Cooper's Tool segment with certain tool businesses of Danaher's Tools and Components segment. Through its own business segments, Apex Tool Group manufactures hand tools, power tools, and professional electronic tools for use in both commercial and do-it-yourself applications. Offering more than 30 brand names -- including Crescent, GearWrench, Armstrong, and Weller -- Apex serves 30 countries. Its products are sold through distributors and supply houses to customers in the automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, and manufacturing and assembly sectors.

MMI Products insists on concrete results. MMI straddles two business segments: concrete construction products and fencing products. Concrete construction products include wire mesh and related building materials used to install reinforcing bars and grids. Products are basic to constructing concrete pipe, bridges, and roads. The company's Merchants Metals line produces residential and commercial chain-link security fencing, aluminum and die-cast galvanized steel fence fittings, and ornamental iron fence supplies. MMI sells its fencing products primarily to barrier wholesalers, industrial manufacturers, and residential and commercial contractors. MMI is a subsidiary of CRH plc's Oldcastle division.

Woodward Governor Company manufactures and services a slew of energy control and optimization systems used in aircraft and vehicles, turbine and piston engines, and electrical power equipment. Made primarily in the US and Germany, its lineup is divided into Turbine Systems, Airfame Systems, Engine Systems, and Electrical Power Systems (listed by sales magnitude). Woodward Governor company serves OEMs and prime contractors worldwide in commercial and military aerospace, power generation and distribution, and transportation. These include GE (17% of sales), Caterpillar, Nordex, and United Technologies. Woodward Governor garners about half of its sales outside the US.

Athens Paper Company, Inc. is a privately-owned company, founded in 1952, headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The two principal owners, M.H. (Bud) Chamberlain, Jr. and W. Donald (Don) Jenkins, Jr., were previously executives for Champion Papers International, Bud being Vice President of merchandising and Don as Director of Operations. Their travels and mill connections led them throughout the United States in the area of responsibility which involved 52 paper merchants from coast to coast. Tired of this extensive traveling and anxious to settle in one location, Chamberlain and Jenkins purchased Athens Paper Company in Nashville and opened for business on January 1, 1968.Both gentlemen began their careers in Nashville which is the main publishing center for seven of the world's largest religious affiliations as well as many other varieties of the printing and publishing trade. Their knowledge of this industry, along with national and international connections to mill sources and publishing requirements, made entry into their new business an appealing venture. Their story has been success after success. Beginning with an old three-story tobacco warehouse in downtown Nashville, Athens has grown from a original staff of 12 employees and one facility to the current 300 plus employees with eleven office/warehouse units and seven publishing sales offices. As well as all the above, Athens in Nashville was one of the first merchants in the region to employ full-time Sales Promotion assistance for advertising agencies and freelance designers. They have faithfully supported the creative field as a successful marketing force for discriminating paper consumers.Mr. Chamberlain passed away in June of 2005, but Mr. Jenkins along with the next generation of Chamberlains and Jenkins are proud to lead Athens Paper into the 21st century as the fastest-growing fine paper in the Mid South. With an emphasis on customer service and deep inventories, Athens remains the first choice for their customers in the region.

Champion Cutting Tool is good for more than just cutting up. Champion Cutting Tool makes and markets more than 15,000 tools primarily under the Champion brand for deburring, drilling, milling, reaming, threading, and turning. Champion Cutting Tool also provides accessories such as drill sets and tool assortments. The company's Brute Platinum tools are designed for use under adverse conditions. Its Rotobrute magnetic drill presses can drill with annular cutters, twist drills, and threading. Its other products include taps and dies, countersinks, and end mills. Champion's tools are sold via a network of distributors throughout the US through numerous catalogs.

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