LMH-NA has been a fixture in the North American transportation and material handling equipment market for over 150 years. Our roots extend back beyond the days of our industry. As a technology and manufacturing pioneer, we played an instrumental role in the early evolution of the lift truck.Today we continue to set the pace in our industry. Linde Material Handling ranks among the world's leading lift truck manufacturers. A justly earned position. Linde trucks excel not only with their recognized innovative technologies, but especially due to their low energy and operating costs.

RCM Industries is a custom aluminum die-casting company serving North America. It provides tool manufacturing, die casting, CNC machining, and assembly on parts for manufacturers in the appliance, automotive, communications, industrial equipment, lawn and garden, and office product industries. It offers everything from initial concept design to final production services. The company has four manufacturing facilities in the Midwest and Southeast US and additional operations through partners abroad in China. RCM Industries is owned by president Robert C. Marconi.

Troy Aikman doesn't lob bricks, but the former Cowboys quarterback does pitch products for Acme Brick. From more than 20 brick manufacturing plants, the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary produces and distributes more than a billion bricks annually to its construction customers in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. It also makes all-brick wood-burning fireplace systems. Acme Brick holds a family of companies, including Acme-Ochs Brick & Stone, offering brick and natural stone; American Tile, distributing residential and commercial stone tiles; Featherlite masonry materials; IBP Glass Block Grid System, making custom aluminum glass block grids; and Texas Quarries, supplying limestone.

Echo,Incorporated is a top developer and manufacturer of professional hand-held outdoor landscaping equipment. The company serves both the commercial and residential homeowner markets. Echo, a subsidiary of Japan's Kioritz Corporation, offers a full line of trimmers and brush cutters, power edgers, power blowers, chain saws, hedge clippers, power pruners, and sprayers. In addition, Echo makes and markets attachments, engine drills, pumps, and safety accessories. Founded in 1972 as Kioritz Corporation of America, Echo engineered the world's first hand-held power blower. In 2009 the company was merged with outdoor power equipment maker Shindaiwa.

ESAB Holdings is one of the world's largest manufacturers of welding and cutting equipment, welding consumables, and welding automation systems used in gas and electric welding. ESAB company's products include welding electrodes, gas cylinder valves, and medical equipment. ESAB serves customers in the automotive, construction, fabrication, power generation, and shipbuilding industries. ESAB company is owned by Charter International. Elektriska Svetsnings-Aktiebolaget (ESAB) was established in 1904 in Sweden. Four companies merged in 1989 to form the current business, which was acquired by Charter in 1994. ESAB has manufacturing operations in China, Germany, Sweden, and the US, with distributors located worldwide.

Matthews International might not bury its competition, but it can supply the casket and bronze marker. The nation's leading maker of cremation equipment and urns, bronze memorials (including Elvis Presley's Graceland marker), and commemorative products (Baseball Hall of Fame plaques), Matthews also builds mausoleums. Subsidiaries The York Group (the #2 casket maker in the US) and Milso make metal and wood caskets, while Matthews Cremation Division is North America's top cremation equipment maker. Other subsidiaries offer graphics design, packaging, and merchandising services. Matthews has operations in Asia, Australia, Canada, and Europe, but the US accounts for more than 60% of its sales.

Bead Industries makes the beaded chains used to flush toilets and operate ceiling fans and window blinds. The ubiquitous metal swag (branded Bead Chain) has a number of other uses, including securing gas tanks, attaching commercial shower curtains, and leashing bank pens, as well as key chains, dog tags, and neck chains. The company's Bead Electronics division makes various pins and connectors found in PC boards, cars, and telecom devices. Bead Industries also owns UK-based chain manufacturer Sturge Industries, and McGuire Manufacturing, a US maker of plumbing products. Founded by Waldo D. Bryant, the company is still led by members of his family.

Disc Graphics, Inc. company makes and prints paperboard-based packaging for home entertainment, cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and related consumer goods markets. Its capabilities tap commercial printing to folding cartons, mini-flute corrugate, and foil stamping. Although Disc Graphics' name goes back to the 1970s in producing labels for vinyl records, Disc Graphics company today specializes in packaging for food and beverage to sporting goods, publishing for audio books, and vitamins. It touts sustainable practices including an eco-design packaging program and non-cellulose based (tree-free) paper. Chairman and CEO Donald Sinkin and private equity firm Main Street Resources hold majority stakes.

The Hitachi Metals manufactures high-grade metal casting components, such as automotive parts (aluminum road wheels, heat-resistant cast exhaust manifolds, and magnetic compass sensors), IT components and materials (antenna switch modules, isolators, and linear motors), and piping and infrastructure products (fire protection piping systems, gas piping, and mass flow controller and metal diaphragm valves), which are used in the automotive, construction, and electronics industries. Hitachi Metals gets more than two-thirds of its sales in Japan.

Jore makes power tool accessories and hand tools under retailers' private labels and for power tool manufacturers. Products include drill sets, driver bits, quick-change systems, and related accessories. Customers have included Stanley Black & Decker, and Sears. In addition to private-label manufacturing, Jore markets products under its Rocky Mountain Twist and Montana Brand names. The company was founded in 1990. It was acquired out of bankruptcy in 2002 by Western Mortgage and Realty for about $30 million.

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