Stanley Black & Decker is a top US toolmaker, it markets hand tools, mechanics' tools, power tools, pneumatic tools, and hydraulic tools. Since the merger, the company's tool shed is bulging with additional items, such as garden tools, plumbing products (Price Pfister), and cleaning items (Dustbuster), as well as security hardware (Kwikset) and door products. Besides the Stanley and Black & Decker names, it boasts such brands as Bostitch, Mac Tools, and DEWALT. Stanley Black & Decker peddles its products through home centers and mass-merchant distributors, as well as through third-party distributors.

Habasit America company makes power transmission belts and conveyor belts, along with related gears and motors, for material handling equipment in a variety of industries. Habasit America's products move automotive parts, beverages, electronic components, food, packaging, paper and tissue, pharmaceuticals, textiles, tires, tobacco, wood, and other commodities. Its conveyor belts also are used in airport baggage handling systems and supermarket check-out stands. Habasit America's Swiss parent company, Habasit Holding AG, operates globally.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) takes off. KHI straddles seven operations. A consumer products and machinery segment, famous for its "Let the good times roll" marketing, makes the Kawasaki brand motorcycle, all-terrain vehicles, and Jet Ski brand personal watercraft. KHI's rolling stock and construction machinery segment produces electric and diesel locomotives, material-handling equipment, and heavy engines. Jet engines, satellites, and structural parts for passenger aircraft are made by aerospace and gas turbine segments. The global conglomerate's lineup includes industrial robots, precision machinery, ships, and snow plows.

NSS Enterprises produces an array of heavy-duty equipment for cleaning the floors of commercial, industrial, and institutional operations worldwide. NSS company's lineup runs from carpet vacuums to automatic scrubbers, sweepers, burnishers, pressure washers, tools and accessories, and buffing floor machines. Its catalog exceeds 40 different models and versions. The company offers sales and repair training on its products to maintenance equipment professionals through its NSS Institute. Backed by 600-plus distributors, NSS products find their way to more than 60 countries. Customers include Hilton, American Airlines, and K-Mart. NSS is owned and led by its founder's grandson, Mark Bevington.

Nexans Hellas stays well connected overhead, underground, and in the water. Nexans Hellas S.A. company makes power cables (low, medium, and high-voltage), telecommunications cables, and fiber-optic cables. Other special application products include flame-retardant and halogen-free cable for use in airports, railways, and shopping centers, and on ships. Many of the Greek isles receive power from the mainland via cables made by Nexans Hellas, which was founded in 1973. Nexans Hellas S.A. company is part of the Paris-based Nexans Group.

Grupo Carso SA de CV, through its subsidiaries, operates primarily in the industrial, construction and infrastructure, commercial, automotive, and mining sectors. It operates through three divisions: Industrial, Infrastructure and Construction, and Commercial. The Industrial division offers cooper telephone, electronic, coaxial, power, fiber optic, and construction cables; harnesses and automotive cables; installation services; copper products, such as strips, sheets, coils, tubes, pipes, valves; aluminum products comprising strips, coils, and extruded shapes; PVC products, including tubes, joints, and water tanks; transformers; magnet wires; and power plants. The Infrastructure and Construction division provides shopping center, industrial facilities, corporate buildings, highway, water treatment plants, and oil platform construction services; steel tubes; design and installation of telecommunication networks; installation of mobile phone radio bases; and low income housing, mid income housing, and residential housing services.

Day-Brite makes some 2 million fluorescent, high intensity discharge (HID), and emergency lights and fixtures a year, mostly for commercial and industrial use. Its product lines include Day-Brite Indoor HID, NiteBrites Outdoor HID, mcPhilben Emergency (exit signs), and Day-Brite Vandal resistant lighting. Day-Brite makes wiring systems (adapters, splitters, cables) used to connect its products in residential and commercial environments such as offices, retail establishments, and schools. Day-Brite's former parent, the Genlyte Group, was acquired by Philips Lighting Business Unit Professional Luminaires North America in 2008.

Manz Automation AG was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Reutlingen, Germany. Manz Automation AG, together with its subsidiaries, develops and manufactures systems and components for photovoltaic and LCD industries. It operates through four segments: Systems.Solar, Systems.Lcd, Systems.Aico, and Others. The Systems.Solar segment's activities include automation solutions for the production of crystalline silicon solar cells and system solutions for quality control and sorting of solar cells. The Systems.Lcd segment manufactures end-to-end lines for handling sensitive products in cleanroom conditions with a focus on substrate handling for the production of LCD flat-screen displays. The Systems.Aico segment involves in the handling of small parts for the production of hard metal parts and the sale of robot and control systems. The Others segment comprises the field of wet chemical processing equipment for the PCB industry; and manufacturing machines for the processing of paper, film, and packaging. It has strategic partnerships with Roth & Rau AG, Optomec, Basler AG, Rofin-Sanar Laser, Masdar PV, and Applied Materials. The company has operations in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Pioneer Metal Finishing proves its mettle by finishing the metal products of others. Pioneer Metal Finishing offers a range of metal finishing techniques, from bright dip anodizing to clear and dyed anodizing, hard lubing, and electroless nickel plating. Its finishes also include acid etch, dry film lubricants, and chromate conversion. Customers -- OEMs and job shops -- operate predominantly in commercial and industrial markets that require parts with increased wear and corrosion resistance, lubricity, heat dissipation, or dielectric properties. Pioneer Metal has divisions in six US cities, each within 300-miles of core customers, or the distance its fleet of tractor trailers can reasonably pick up and deliver metal goods.

Icon Polymer Group provides customized engineered solutions to many of the world's blue chip companies through the application of leading polymer technology. With tailored commercial solutions we strive to excel within both our internal business functions and in our customer and supplier relationships.The Group has successfully harnessed over 450 yrs of product approvals, with globally recognized brand names, such as Northern Rubber, Silentbloc and Silvertown, and is continually looking to bring about effective change that can further create value for its stakeholders. We seek to deliver that value in a manner that leads to growth - fueled mutually beneficial relationships. At Icon Polymer Group we clearly differentiate ourselves from our competition by understanding our customers' needs and maximising the value we bring to them through Effective Communication, Short Lead-times, Product and Documentation quality and Competitiveness.The Organisational culture is one where excellent performance is highly rewarded and encouraged and one where continuous improvement is not only expected but is required.

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