Unipapel is planning big moves within the stationery products industry. Through subsidiaries, Unipapel makes office and school products such as envelopes, notebooks, stationery, and adhesive labels. Unipapel is split into three units: a company for Unipapel's foreign investments, another group in charge of Spanish businesses, and a third for its real-estate assets. In 2004 Unipapel sold the site of a plant in northern Spain that produced school stationery supplies for about E28 million to developer Promociones Rodejon Burgos. It built a new factory in 2006.

Dopaco manufactures take-out containers for customers in the food service industry. Its lineup includes folding cartons, hot and cold beverage cups and accompanying lids and carriers, as well as cartons for fries, and clamshells and food trays for pizza and hot dogs. Dopaco company also touts customized packaging design services to meet menu and marketing requirements. Major customers include Jack in the Box, Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's. Based near Philadelphia, Dopaco has six plants in North America, and joint ventures in the US, Australia, Indonesia, and China. It is a subsidiary of Canadian paper-maker Cascades Inc.

Consolidated Pipe and Supply lives up to its name: Its seven arms join in serving pipe and pipeline materials to a swath of industries, from energy to water and waste treatment, chemical, mining, nuclear, oil and gas, and pulp and paper. An Industrial unit specializes in carbon and stainless alloy pipe, valves, and fittings. Vulcan makes all types of PVC. Corrosion resistant coatings are offered by a Line Pipe and Tubular unit, and liquid applied coatings by Specialty Coatings. Its Consolidated Power Supply is the largest in the business of safety related metallic materials for commercial nuclear generation. Another unit caters to utilities. Consolidated also provides engineering services and inventory systems.

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.

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.

SIGMA STRETCH FILM opened its first manufacturing facility in November 1993. During the last 15 years, the company has evolved into the leading manufacturers of industrial stretch film in North America. While other stretch film producers neglected capital re-investment, SIGMA STRETCH FILM continuously invested in state-of-the-art equipment and maintained a strong focus on increased capacity. In the time since the company was founded, SIGMA STRETCH FILM has added three additional plants in the United States, as well as a fifth manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada. These five manufacturing plants are strategically located to efficiently and economically service the North American stretch film market. Each one is guided by the same standards of production and quality control to ensure consistent product throughout the manufacturing network. And, local, in-plant customer service representation ensures accurate, fast response to customer inquiries and orders. Plus, our management team represents more than a century of combined leadership and experience in stretch film marketing and manufacturing. SIGMA STRETCH FILM is a division of the Sigma Plastics Group. The Sigma Plastics Group was founded in 1978 and is the largest, privately owned film extrusion group in the United States. It is comprised of 16 divisions, producing annual sales of 1.4 billion dollars and employs over 5,000. September 2007's Plastics News rated the Group as the 2nd largest film and sheet manufacturer in North America.

Control -- it's all in the valves at Jet Research, dba Valve Research & Manufacturing. The company designs and manufactures an array of industrial precision valves, from check to solenoid, and related devices, including flow regulators, pressure reducers, and manifolds. Its lineup is one of the most frequently used types of pneumatic control in aerospace, oceanographic, and offshore oil exploration equipment. The company's solenoid valves, for example, are vital to the fuel control system on Boeing's commercial aircraft. Its hydraulic valves help drive military crawlers, and its landing gear valves, Beechcraft's turboprop-powered planes. Started in 1975, Jet Research is led by founder and president, Paul Cruz.

Wheeling Corrugating still displays nerves of steel.The Niche manufacturer produces roll formed steel products. The lineup includes galvanized roofing and siding, steel roof decks, as well as bridge highway decking, galvanized sheet, painted coil products for HVAC use, and even pre-engineered metal buildings. Fabrication depends primarily on galvanized steel, produced at a Wheeling-Pittsburgh plant, and to a lesser extent on full-hard cold rolled steel. Wheeling Corrugating's 14 plants dot the US, serving bridge and highway building, construction, residential, and agricultural markets. The company is a business division of Severstal Wheeling, Inc.

GM Nameplate makes product identification components, injection molded plastics, and electronic input devices. End products include decals, labels, mouse pads, and placards, as well as electronic components, such as keypads and switching assemblies. GM Nameplate supplies the needs of businesses, from FORTUNE 500 companies to startups, extending the internal resources of its customers and enabling them to launch their products to market faster. Customers include Boeing, Dell, General Electric, General Motors, Microsoft, and Xerox. GM Nameplate has five divisions in the US, and one each in Canada, China, and Singapore.

Lorin Industries anodizes aluminum coils and sheets and provides value-added services such as slitting and shearing. (Anodizing provides aluminum with a protective coating that controls oxidation.) The company's products are used in architectural, commercial manufacturing, and electronics applications. Founded in 1943 by Herb Kersman, Lorin Industries is owned by the Kersman family.

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