Being square is no insult for box-maker Norampac. A division of Cascades, Norampac manufactures volumes of containerboard, boxboard, and corrugated products. To do so, it operates 26 corrugated products plants, seven containerboard mills, three boxboard mills, and five folding carton plants. A graphic center and an innovation center also offer design services and an array of paper options. Norampac facilities in Canada, the US, and France, churn out products for the food, wine and spirits, and consumer goods industry. Norampac debuted in 1997 when Cascades and Domtar joined their containerboard and corrugated products businesses. Members of the Lemaire family, owners of Cascades, serve in Norampac's management.

Quietaire Corporation is a manufacturer of industrial and commercial fans but also makes greenhouse and poultry farm cooling systems, wall fans, and roof exhausts and ventilators. The company also makes portable air-conditioning systems. Industrial products include wall and roof ventilators, centrifugal, tube axial, blowers, and air make-up units. Quietaire manufactures fans in aluminum, carbon steel, galvanized and stainless steel. Its fan blade diameters range from 10 inches to 96 inches.The company applies various chemical and heat resistant finishes on its products.

Will-Burt Company is a manufacturer of roof- and vertical-mounted masts for use in fire and rescue, police and security, weather, military, broadcast, and cellular applications. The pneumatic and mechanical telescoping masts and accessories elevate lights, communication (antennae) and surveillance equipment, and cameras. Military masts include vehicle mounted and portable field masts. Will-Burt also designs and develops lighting systems, mobile command centers, and printed circuit boards. Customers include large companies in the US, as well as government and military clients worldwide. Will-Burt, an employee-owned company, has offices in the US, the UK, and Singapore.

Brentwood Industries company manufactures a variety of products, including wheelbarrows, cooling towers, wastewater treatment systems, and speciality plastic forming and molding services. Brentwood has expanded its product line with the additions of Polychem Systems (non-metallic chain and flight sludge collectors) and NRG Products (non-metallic clarifier systems for municpal and industrial markets). Brentwood company has manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Brentwood was founded in 1965. Brentwood Asia provides cooling tower manufacturing and distribution for the Asian market from facilities in Thailand.

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.

Precision Castparts Corp is a leading maker of investment castings used in jet aircraft, satellite launches, armaments, and medical applications (prostheses). Its Investment Cast Products segment makes jet engine parts, fluid management valves, and deep-hole boring tools. Forged Products and Fastener Products round out the company's three segments and cover the power generation and paper and pulp industries, as well as general industry. The cyclical aerospace market still accounts for more than half of PCC's sales. PCC's aerospace customers include jet engine makers General Electric (about 14% of sales) and Pratt & Whitney.

Thorlux Lighting company manufactures and sells light fixtures for industrial, commercial, and architectural applications. Thorlux also makes floodlight lamps, tunnel lighting systems, and lighting control systems. All of its lighting fixtures are built out of Thorlux's manufacturing facilities in Redditch, England. The company, which has been in the lighting industry since 1936, is a subsidiary of F. W. Thorpe. Thorlux originally got its start when Frederick William Thorpe began producing circular reflectors; rapid growth led to parent company F. W. Thorpe being floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1965.

K-Tool Corporation distributes hand tools, power tools, industrial equipment, and other professional products made by more than 250 manufacturers to more than 3,000 auto parts stores, government agencies, hardware stores, industrial distributors, and tool distributors. Customers may order by phone or through the company's Web sites. In addition K-Tool offers repairs and provides spare parts. The company also makes hand tools, power tools, and professional equipment through its K-Tool International division. K-Tool's Preferred Tool & Equipment division sells exclusively to jobbers, warehouses and distributors. K-Tool was founded in 1981 by Edward Kay.

Farrel Corporation company's products include batch mixers, extruders (used to make hoses and sheathings), mills, and pelletizers under brand names Banbury, Technolab, and Intermix. It also provides related services, such as equipment upgrading, consulting, rebuilding, remanufacturing, and spare parts. Farrel sells its machinery to petrochemical, plastic resins, and plastic compounder firms. Rubber-making equipment customers include tire makers, automotive parts manufacturers, and footwear producers. In late 2009 Germany-based industrial conglomerate L. Possehl & Co. acquired Farrel for about $14 million.

Guardian is one of the world's largest manufacturers of float glass and fabricated glass products. You also should know that we manufacture and supply the automotive industry with a variety of exterior products. We've also become a significant player in the building materials distribution business. And somewhere along the line, we became the world's largest producer of mirrors.Headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, the privately held Guardian Industries group of companies has over 19,000 employees worldwide (that's 21 countries, on 5 continents), and we value them above all else.In fact, we are very proud of our management structure. It is specifically designed to avoid bureaucratic nonsense, and allows the individual to flourish. It is an environment that thrives on the initiative of its people. And it works. Just ask any of our thousands of happy customers.

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