Graham Corporation takes the biscuit when it comes to helping companies make beer, soap, and other products. Graham Corporation makes equipment -- such as vacuum systems, pumps, compressors, and heat exchangers -- which is necessary to the manufacturing processes for petroleum, plastics, chemicals, food processing, and other industrial products. The company sells its products directly and through independent sales representatives worldwide. About half of Graham's sales are generated outside of the US.

Omron Scientific Technologies, Incorporated supplies safety light guards, safety interlocks and relays, safety mats, and controllers used to protect personnel in hazardous manufacturing environments. Omron STI serves such industries as automotive, cosmetics, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and electronic machinery. Former Scientific Technologies Inc. chairman Anthony Lazzara and his family controlled the company until it sold the safety products business to OMRON in 2006. Omron STI's products are supported worldwide by distributors and OMRON offices.

Amcor PET Packaging company is #1 in the Americas for manufacturing polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers. Customers include those in the food industry (dressings, sauces and salsas, fruit and nut spreads) and beverage producers (soft drinks, water, juices, dairy, and beer). Amcor PET supplies non-food applications, too, from household cleaners to liquid soap and lotion, hair care, pharmaceutical, automotive, and agro-chemical goods. Practicing another kind of green, it recycles a hefty 100 million pounds of PET a year. A business unit of Amcor Limited, Amcor PET's 60-plus manufacturing facilities dot a dozen countries.

Redman Fisher certainly knows how to grate on you. A subsidiary of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC, Redman Fisher makes industrial metalwork products, including floor grating, handrails, ladders, beams, and stairtread. The company's open grid flooring products are primarily made of aluminum, stainless steel, and GRP (glass fiber reinforced plastic). It also fulfills custom design orders for flooring, staircases, access platforms, balconies, and balustrades. Bromford Iron and Steel, another Hill & Smith subsidiary, is the company's primary supplier of raw materials. Redman Fisher Engineering was founded in 1897.

SAGE Electrochromics is wisely repaning the future. SAGE Electrochromics company develops residential and industrial "smart" windows that darken or lighten through the use of low-voltage DC power. Its main focus is on the commercial market and selling architects on using branded SageGlass products in their designs. SAGE's windows can be operated by using a dimmer switch, remote control, or central energy management system to control how much sunlight and solar heat enters the home, office, or car. The adjustable tinting level varies from dark to light. The US Departments of Commerce, Energy, and Defense, as well as the National Science Foundation, support SAGE's development efforts. John Van Dine founded SAGE in 1989.

Russells Technical Products began when Russells Refrigeration Co., a commercial and industrial refrigeration sales and service company, was acquired in 1972 by Mr. Donald Bench. Since then, Russells has been designing and manufacturing environmental test systems and providing a comprehensive and varied product line including both pre-engineered and custom/specialty chambers. This has allowed Russells to attract and retain the technical expertise required in this field. Mr. Bench has been in the environmental test chamber manufacturing business since the 1950's starting with Conrad Inc., one of the original pioneering companies in this industry. Mr. Bench served Conrad as Chief Engineer and later becoming its President.Russells' management team has over 150 years experience in the design and manufacture of environmental test chambers and systems. Russells' personnel are qualified and skilled in all phases of the design and manufacturing process. Its business philosophy is to operate self-sufficiently in terms of utilizing modest but functional facilities and equipment to maintain a low overhead structure and enhance the value of its products. It owns its manufacturing facilities and capital equipment such as sheet metal fabrication, welding, electrical, refrigeration and painting equipment in order to maintain closer control and quality of these operations than if sub-contracted to outside suppliers.

The 50/50 joint venture combines Cooper's Tool segment with certain tool businesses of Danaher's Tools and Components segment. Through its own business segments, Apex Tool Group manufactures hand tools, power tools, and professional electronic tools for use in both commercial and do-it-yourself applications. Offering more than 30 brand names -- including Crescent, GearWrench, Armstrong, and Weller -- Apex serves 30 countries. Its products are sold through distributors and supply houses to customers in the automotive, aerospace, construction, electronics, and manufacturing and assembly sectors.

Bosch Rexroth AG makes electric drives and controls, gears, hydraulic systems, and pneumatics for industrial and factory automation applications, and for use in the automobile, aircraft, medical, renewable energy, and shipbuilding industries. It also offers assembly and linear motion technologies and systems. Bosch Rexroth, a subsidiary of Germany-based Robert Bosch, was formed in 2001 with the merger of Bosch Automation Technology and Rexroth. In 2010 Bosch Rexroth and Dana Holding agreed to form a joint venture to develop and produce transmissions for the off-highway vehicle market.

Anchor Manufacturing Group manufactures metal stampings, assemblies, and steering column products (primarily for the auto industry). Anchor Manufacturing's in-house capabilities include manufacturing services such as welding and assembly, laser cutting, heat treating, sawing, shearing, metal stamping (up to 2,000 tons), tool and die (and repair), powder coating, machining, and metal fabricating. The company operates 340,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing space on 20 acres near the Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Anchor Manufacturing was founded in 1970 by Edward Pfaff.

Gruber Systems, Inc. was founded in 1958 as Gruber Man Made Marble. Gruber Systems makes molds and supplies for manufacturers of cast polymer products, such as bathtubs, showers, and countertops. Gruber's Granatex is a granite-like filler material used in bathroom, kitchen, and architectural products. The company also makes composite processing equipment and offers factory design services. Other products include adhesives, whirlpool parts, and related supplies and materials. Additionally, it provides finished products for the home, such as bathroom sinks and tubs, kitchen sinks, fireplace surrounds, and vanities, under the Solure brand.

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