United Plastics Group, Inc. company makes plastic products and components utilizing mold building, injection molding, and micro molding processes. Its divisions are based on the automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, and medical markets. Value-added products include heat transfer decals, heat staking, pad printing, and sonic welding. United Plastics (dba UPG), which operates more than 300 molding machines, has over 10 manufacturing plants across the US, as well as in China, Mexico, and the UK. UPG is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners.

The Weir Group need not be wary of even the biggest infrastructure project. The engineering company offers an array of industrial products and services used to build or run everything from mines to wastewater plants to oil pipelines to nuclear facilities. The Weir Group PLC company manufactures industrial pumps, valves, controls, and material handling equipment; it also provides maintenance and technical support and replacement parts. To keep its global operations organized, Weir divides its activities into three divisions: minerals, oil and gas, and power and industrial. North America is the group's leading region, with about one-third of sales.

Multi-Shifter company manufactures industrial battery handling equipment, including battery changing vehicles, storage, washing, and wastewater filtration systems. Its products are distributed largely to companies that operate electrically powered forklift trucks. Since its founding in 1974, Multi-Shifter has installed more than 2,000 battery handling systems across North America, Australia, and Europe; over 200 of these workhorses are touted to be 15 to 20 years old, and still operating. Multi-Shifter garners the business of blue chip companies, such as Apple, Ford Motor, General Electric, and Michelin. Multi-Shifter is owned and led by its founder's son, John Pratt.

Dynapac USA is rolling along in the compaction and paving machinery business. A division of Sweden-based Dynapac AB, its products primarily include compactors, cutters and grinders, pavers, planers, poker vibrators, rollers, rammers, and submersible pumps for use in road building and civil construction. Dynapac also offers service, spare parts, and training. Formerly a subsidiary of Metso Minerals Industries, Dynapac was taken private by Nordic investment firm Altor in 2004. Dynapac has eight production facilities in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Sweden, and the US, and has sales operations in 16 countries worldwide. Dynapac AB was purchased by Atlas Copco in 2007.

Refractron Technologies Corp. is a leading manufacturer of technical ceramics. Products include both controlled porosity and densely structured ceramics designed to meet requirements specified by our customers for durability, chemical, corrosion and wear resistance, toughness, and density. The range of dense, structural ceramics using proprietary zirconia ceramics includes custom blended ceramic alloy powders formed by isopressing or extrusion to meet customer specifications. Refractron’s zirconia is offered in two materials Magnesia Partially Stabilized Zirconia, Mg-PSZ and Yttria Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystal, Y-TZP. Refractron’s structural ceramic zirconia materials provide excellent erosion, corrosion and abrasion resistance along with temperature resistance, fracture toughness and strength. Numerous applications for these materials are in the chemical and petrochemical industry providing economic payback in the way of reduced maintenance and down time. Zirconia is also used for components in healthcare and dental applications. The types of dense, structural ceramic components produced by Refractron include: valve components, pump liners, plugs, sleeves, pistons, precision ceramic balls, spools, press tooling, dental blanks and extrusion tooling. The range of Refractron porous ceramics include monolithic and membrane components made from aluminum oxide and silicon carbide. The strong, uniform porous ceramic has 40-50% open porosity with a tortuous pore structure and is available in pore sizes ranging from 0.25 to 90 microns. The types of porous ceramic products include membrane and monolithic tubes, discs, plates and other components where tightly controlled pore size and porosity is critical. Filtration is a common application where porous ceramic is used for catalyst recovery, hot gas, liquid backwash, solvent filtration, coalescing and solids recovery in chemical process, water and mining industries. Diffusion or sparging using porous ceramics to produce fine bubbles is another typical application as high gas transfer efficiencies are achieved with the fine, uniform pore structure. Other specialty porous ceramic products include a range of wicking & dispersion parts, vacuum chucks, fluid bed plates, inkpads, gas probes and a range of adsorbent filter/drier cores for refrigeration applications.

Cecil I. Walker Machinery Co., a distributor for Caterpillar, sells, rents, and services Caterpillar equipment through about a dozen facilities in West Virginia and Ohio. Products include tractors, loaders, dozers, handlers, and various types of engines. Its Earthmoving division serves customers in the forestry, construction, coal, and industrial markets; its Walker Engine Power division sells commercial and truck engines; and Walker Express rents construction equipment. Members of the Walker family owned and managed Cecil I. Walker company, which was founded in 1950, until selling it to Boyd Company in 2010.

Duoyuan Global Water Inc. company manufactures water and wastewater treatment equipment for use in industrial and municipal water systems. Its makes more than 80 different products, including water conditioners, filters, various water purification systems (i.e. ultraviolet, ozone, electrodeionization), grit separators, and others. The company distributes its products throughout China and serves municipalities, as well as power generation, oil, steel manufacturing, and other companies. Duoyuan Global Water was founded in 1992; it filed an initial public offering (IPO) in 2009.

Originally founded in 1918 as Densen Works to manufacture wires, cables and copper products on the premises of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Cable became an independent spin-off of Hitachi in 1956. Since then, it has played a pivotal role within the Hitachi Group as a manufacturer of electric wires and cables-components essential for ensuring a stable power supply, as well as reliable equipment for the information and communications industry-while striving to develop and refine the new communication and transmission technologies demanded by the information and energy sectors.Today, Hitachi Cable offers a wide range of products and services, including products ranging from electric wires, cables, and copper products to electronic materials, automobile parts, and even information network devices and system integration solutions. Its long continued expansion of operations internationally has given Hitachi Cable production and sales bases in 44 locations around the world, with the concomitant capacity to support client operations from a truly global perspective.

Kirby Risk Corporation, which was named after one of its co-founders, supplies electrical products (process automation products, drives and motors, lighting, fuses, wire and cable) and services in the midwestern US. Kirby Risk's services include electric-motor repair and precision machining. Kirby Risk Corporation company's electrical supply distribution unit handles more than 20,000 products from some 500 manufacturers, including 3M, Allen Bradley, and Rockwell Automation. Other operations include ARCO Electric Products (phase converters). CEO James Risk III owns Kirby Risk Corporation.

Heidelberg USA is a manufacturer of sheetfed printing presses and prepress, printing, and binding equipment for customers in the print media industry. Heidelberg USA company also sells such consumables as plates and film and resells products made by other manufacturers, including Kodak. Through its Print Media Academy program, Heidelberg USA offers product training at locations in Canada and the US. Heidelberg USA company is the main US subsidiary of German printing giant Heidelberger Druckmaschinen (known as Heidelberg), along with Baumfolder Corporation, Heidelberg Digital LLC, and Heidelberg Print Finance Americas, Inc.

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