Rain Bird Corporation is the leading manufacturer and provider of irrigation products and services. Since its beginnings, Rain Bird has offered the industry’s broadest range of irrigation products for farms, golf courses, sports arenas, commercial developments and homes in more than 130 countries around the world. Rain Bird has been awarded more than 130 patents, including the first in 1935 for the original horizontal action impact drive sprinkler (U.S. Patent #1,997,901), which revolutionized the food production industry and ushered in a new era in irrigation, worldwide. The original impact sprinkler was designated a historic landmark in 1990 by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Today, Rain Bird offers over 4,000 irrigation products and services.

Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ: RUSHA & RUSHB) operates the largest network of heavy and medium- duty truck dealerships in North America and a construction equipment dealership in Houston, Texas. Its current truck operations include a network located throughout the Southern United States in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. These dealerships provide an integrated, one-stop sales and service of new and used heavy- and medium-duty trucks and construction equipment, aftermarket parts, service and body shop capabilities, chrome accessories, tires and a wide array of financial services including the financing of truck and equipment sales, insurance products and leasing and rentals.

The papermaker makes a wide range of quality paper grades including specialty grades such as gumming kraft and laminating kraft. Other products include recycled papers, cut rolls, lightweight linerboard, unbleached kraft pulp, and unbleached kraft rolls. Port Townsend Paper (PTPC), which is owned by PT Holdings Company, also operates BoxMaster plants and Crown Packaging factories in Canada. The Canadian operations produce corrugated cardboard boxes, cartons, and displays. Early in 2007, PT Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; it emerged from bankruptcy in August of that year.

FWMurphy Group Company makes hundreds of products that monitor and control compressors, pumps, generators, engines, and other equipment. FWMurphy makes engine-driven equipment controls, gauges and industrial control systems for automotive, industrial, oil and gas production and transmission, irrigation and agriculture, and marine applications. The gauges can measure fluid level, pressure, temperature, and vibration. Its Control Systems & Services division (Texas) designs and fabricates control systems primarily for natural gas compressors. FWMurphy also has operations in the UK (Frank W. Murphy, Ltd.) and China (FW Murphy International Trading).

Genesis Worldwide II has had metal manufacturing on its mind. Operating through its Herr-Voss Stamco business segment, Genesis Worldwide II company makes metal coil processing equipment used by steel and aluminum mills and mini-mills, ferrous and nonferrous supply centers, and end users of coiled metals. Products include tension leveling, cut-to-length, slitting, coating, and multi-blanking machines and packaging systems. Genesis Worldwide II company also provides such services as mill roll reconditioning, texturing, and grinding along with rebuilding, repair, and spare parts sales. Genesis II is held by HVS Acquisition, Inc., an affiliate of private equity firm Grey Mountain Partners.

The Michelin Man may look like a marshmallow, but what he's selling is tires. Behind that fluffy white figure is one of the world's top tire manufacturers, Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin, which produces more than 150 million tires annually for all kinds of vehicles. The majority of its sales are made from supplying replacement tires to the passenger car and truck markets. It is also a world leader in aircraft and earthmover tires. Michelin sells to both consumers and vehicle manufacturers. Included in its stable are brands recognized regionally (Kleber in Europe, Warrior in China) and worldwide (Michelin, BF Goodrich). Compagnie Generale company also publishes about 10 million maps and travel guides per year.

Shaw Industries is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers.Shaw Industries sells woven and tufted broadloom carpet and rugs, as well as other flooring products including laminate, ceramic tile, and hardwood in North America, and exports worldwide. Its carpet brand names include Cabin Crafts, Queen, Designweave, Philadelphia, and Sutton. The company also rolls out a line of both continuous filament fiber carpet and hardwood flooring containing recycled content. Shaw sells its residential products to distributors and retailers and offers commercial products directly to contractors through Shaw Contract Flooring. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns Shaw Industries.

Allen Gearing Solutions has a need for speed. More commonly known as Allen Gears, Allen Gearing Solutions company makes gearboxes for industrial and marine high-speed rotating equipment. Its short list includes building epicyclic gearboxes (used in gas turbine generator drives) and parallel shaft gearboxes (found in high-power, low-ratio equipment). It also provides an array of aftermarket services, including 24-hour access to engineering advice, customer training, repair, spare parts, and scheduled inspections. Allen Gearing Solutions company's clients hail from the power generation, hydro power, oil and gas, and marine propulsion markets. Allen Gears, formerly a subsidiary of Rolls-Royce, was taken private in a management buyout in 2008.

Smiths Group has five divisions - Smiths Detection, Smiths Medical, John Crane, Smiths Interconnect and Flex-Tek. They are focused on the threat & contraband detection, medical devices, energy, communications and engineered components markets worldwide. Our customers range from governments and their agencies, to hospitals, petrochemical companies and equipment manufacturers and service providers in various sectors around the world.

Industrial Engineering & Equipment, doing business as INDEECO, can handle the heat. INDEECO company designs and manufactures commercial and industrial electric heating equipment and related control products. Its turnkey manufacturing process includes engineering, welding, assembly, fabrication, and quality assurance; it also provides field-service engineering. INDEECO's products include heating elements, circulation heaters, cooling-tower heaters, duct heaters, explosion-proof heaters, heat-transfer systems, impedance-pipeline systems, and unit heaters for buildings, industrial ovens, printing machines, and other uses.

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