Founded in 1898, Okuma also distributes pre-owned machines and provides refurbishing services for older machines in disrepair. Okuma Holdings company has 13 overseas and six domestic companies; it operates in North America through US affiliate Okuma America Corporation and in Europe through Okuma Europe. The Okuma Technical Center East (Austria) is the sales and service base for the Eastern European market. Okuma Holdings (formerly Okuma Corporation) grinds out machine tools for customers worldwide. The company's computerized numerically controlled (CNC) machining devices range from grinders and lathes, to machining center systems, electrical discharge machines, and flexible electronic manufacturing systems.

Bringing class to glass, Viracon, a subsidiary of Apogee Enterprises, fabricates and installs architectural glass that has been treated with its glass-coating services. Viracon company buys bulk, flat glass which then can be insulated, laminated, silk-screened, coated, or tempered for customers in the commercial and institutional glass market. Other end products include acoustical, blast-mitigating, heat-strengthened, spandrel, hurricane-resistant, and high-performance coated glass. Viracon has manufacturing facilities in Minnesota and Georgia. Viracon company was formed in 1970 by James Martineau.

Draka manufactures elevator cables and wire rope and sells a variety of hoistway hardware, kits, and elevator electromechanical parts. It also makes components for escalator systems and offers customized products such as power-conducting cables, coaxial cable units, and other instrumentation wires and cables. Draka Elevator Products is part of Draka Cableteq, which in turn is a subsidiary of big Netherlands-based cabling company Draka Holding.

Founded in 1924 by A.F. Siebert, Milwaukee Electric Tool operates as a subsidiary of home improvement tool maker Techtronic Industries. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation company manufactures and sells cordless drills, impact wrenches, chop saws, and rotary hammers, all branded with a red lightning bolt. Its 500-plus heavy-duty to portable tool lineup is marketed to professional cabinetmakers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, remodelers, and welders. The weekend handyman also can find Milwaukee Electric Tool products and accessories at Lowe's Companies, The Home Depot, and comparable do-it-yourself (DIY) centers.

Established in 1956, Alcan Airex is the Switzerland-based specialty foam manufacturer for parent Alcan Composites, itself a subsidiary of Switzerland-based Schweiter Technologies. The closed-cell specialty foam producer's operations are organized into three business segments: display/creative sheet materials, sandwich core materials, and flexible foams for exercise and buoyancy products. Brand names include its FOREX display materials, FOAM-X foam boards, KAPEX copolymer foams, BALTEK end-grain balsa wood, and AIREX exercise products. Alcan Airex owns and operates two facilities in Switzerland. Europe accounts for the vast majority (around 70%) of the company's sales volume.

Hyco’s operations have been serving an impressive list of OEM partners with an ever-increasing spectrum of high specification products, allowing its customers to enjoy one-stop-shopping and all of the associated supply chain benefits. State-of-the-art software for ERP, CAD and CAM applications support Hyco's information-driven approach to enterprise management, design excellence, best-practices manufacturing and they provide a competitive advantage for the Hyco Group. The Hyco guiding principles of Seamless Global Supply, One-Stop-Shopping and the Lowest Delivered Costs are central to Hyco's business strategy and to Hyco’s, and Hyco’s Partners’ long-term success.

Rippin is a provider of structural steel manufacturing services. Rippin produces materials primarily for construction projects throughout the UK such as the Cameron Toll Shopping Center, the central command facility for the Strathclyde Fire Brigade, Glasgow University Sports Center, and Queen Street Railway Station. The company makes use of methods including beam rolling, mig welding, and pedinghaus punching in the manufacture of its structural steel components.

Distribution International company, through its subsidiaries (BWI Distribution and Distribution International Southwest) and affiliates (Branton Industries, Insulation Sales and Fabrication, and MIT International) distributes insulation products used in industrial, commercial, and marine applications. Distribution International (DI) serves its customers through some 20 branches in about eight states, primarily serving customers in the Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Southeast portions of the US. Middle-market company investor Audax Group acquired DI from Grey Mountain Partners in mid-2010.

Bigger is better, especially if you're Bramco. Operating through a multi-state network dotting the Midwest and Southeast US, the company wholesales and rents new and used construction, mining, and material handling equipment and machinery. Bramco represents an array of blue chip brands; it is the largest distributor of Komatsu and Ingersoll-Rand equipment in the US. Its wholly owned subsidiaries -- Bramco Properties, Brandeis Machinery and Supply, Power Equipment, and Certified Rental -- drive the company's marketing clout in delivering hard-to-find large equipment.

Set on the Willamette River, the West Linn Paper mill has been independently churning out paper goods for more than 115 years. The oldest active paper mill in Western US, West Linn Paper runs three machines, producing coated free sheet paper -- up to 700 tons daily -- for use on web presses. Its paper lineup is chiefly used for high-impact printing products, such as in advertising, and in publishing books, catalogs, direct mail pieces, and magazines. Brands Capistrano, Sonoma, and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified grades Nature Web and Nature Plus, are sold direct through the company's customer service, primarily to West Coast businesses. West Linn Paper Company is held by Belgravia Investments Ltd.

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