P&F Industries helps craftsmen use less muscle. It operates through two primary subsidiaries: Continental Tool Group and Countrywide Hardware. Continental Tool Group sells air-powered tools, including sanders, drills, and saws. The subsidiary comprises Florida Pneumatic Manufacturing Corporation and Hy-Tech Machine. Florida Pneumatic's Berkley Tool unit makes pipe-cutting tools and wrenches for machinery for Sears and Home Depot. Countrywide Hardware, through Nationwide Industries, produces and imports door, window, and fencing hardware, while its WM Coffman unit makes and imports stair parts and accessories. Chairman and CEO Richard Horowitz owns about 30% of P&F.

Eklind Tool can't afford to be too superstitious. For those who have a hexagonal nut to tighten or loosen, the company has the hexagonal tool to meet their needs. Eklind Tool claims to have set the industry standard for a select range of industrial grade hand tools, including hex keys and wrenches, ball-hex keys, and screwdriver bits. Its brand names include Hex-L, Power-T, Ergo-Fold, Ball-Hex-Drivers, and others. The company's products range from penknife-sized fold-up key sets to four-drawer, 22-compartment tool organizers (plastic boxes) for use in workshops and garages.

Fanuc Ltd engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and maintenance of robots and factory automation products primarily in Japan, America, Europe, and Asia. Its products include programmable logic controllers, CNC systems, industrial lasers, robots and robot machines, servo motors, carbon dioxide laser oscillators, wire-cut electric discharge machines, nano machines, precision molding machines, and machines for milling, boring, drilling, and tapping. The company also offers Proficy, a series of factory monitoring and controlling software packages, including CIMPLICITY and embedded systems. Fanuc Ltd was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

Nord Est (formerly La Continentale d'Entreprises) into a nice, neat little package. The holding company's main area of business is consumer packaging for beauty and health care items, including paperboard boxes and plastic cases. It also has mining and mineral operations including mica, zinc, and lead. Nord Est has divested some of its mining subsidiaries (Denain-Anzin Mineraux and Miniere de Touissit) and its stake in electronics company APEM (miniature switches and keypads used in the computer and aerospace industries). Nord Est company is owned by 21 Centrale Partners, a France-based private equity firm which is itself controlledbyItaly's Benetton family.

Sandvik Materials Technology, of which Kanthal is a brand, is a world-leading manufacturer of products based on advanced metallic and ceramic materials.Our products and services contribute to our customers' productivity, reliability and cost efficiency while reducing their environmental impact in a wide variety of industry segments. In partnership with customers, we jointly develop products and materials that meet the challenges of the future.

Magneco/Metrel makes ceramics, but you won't find any artistic pieces at this company's plant! Magneco/Metrel uses the world's largest blast furnace to produce high-temperature refractory ceramics. The lineup serves as a lining in pipes and molds carrying molten iron and steel. The heat of molten steel would erode the pipes and molds without the ceramic barrier. Magneco/Metrel also makes a spray-on nano-particulate refractory line that can be used to create a liner for constructing or repairing steel-making molds and pipe. Its ceramics line is sold largely to steel foundries; other applications include ironmaking, glass, and copper. Magneco/Metrel was established in 1979 and is owned by CEO Charles Connors.

Swan Industries is no ugly duckling when it comes to metal packaging. The Thai company manufactures metal cans for a variety of uses. Established in 1965, Swan's can products come in many shapes and forms -- round and rectangular, pail and drum, beverage and aerosol, to name a few. The company also makes cans for dried foods, milk powder, seafood, fruits, and vegetables. Commanding annual revenues north of $100 million, Swan's manufacturing is supported by four domestic plants in Thailand. Ancillary services like research and development, marketing, and technical support are offered to Swan customers.

Aalberts Industries is an international group of industrial companies with two, mutually reinforcing, core activities: Industrial Services and Flow Control.The group companies are leading players in their respective markets and constantly strive to strengthen this position. The ways in which this is achieved include a continuous process of innovation in terms of products, systems and processes combined with a focused market approach. Aalberts Industries’ decentralised organisational structure in which responsibility for the day-to-day operations rests with the management of the groupcompanies stimulates entrepreneurship. Group company managements report business progress to the holding company on a regular basis. There is also frequent contact between the Management Board and the group company managements.Aalberts Industries continuously strengthens its leading market positions through a combination of profitable organic growth and the selective acquisition of complementary companies that fit within the strategy. Focused diversification, a steady increase in earnings per share and solid balance sheet ratios are key.Aalberts Industries has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1987. At the end of 2009 Aalberts Industries employed around 10,000 people who worked in more than 140 group companies in over 30 countries. Revenue for 2009 amounted to EUR 1,405 million.

The Graduate's Mr. McGuire and Chen Hsong Holdings company's founder and chairman Chiang Chen agree on one thing: There's a great future in plastics. Chen Hsong Holdings is one of the world's largest manufacturers of injection molding machines, used to make such products as home appliances, electronics, and toys. Chen Hsong Holdings company produces about 15,000 machines each year for customers in more than 65 countries around the globe (though about two-thirds of its revenues are generated in China and Hong Kong). Chen Hsong Holdings company is now run by Chiang Chen's daughter, CEO Lai Yuen Chiang.

Ennis Steel Industries fabricates structural steel and provides such services as blasting, drilling, galvanizing, and welding. The company uses automated equipment including angle shear and punch machines, beam punch lines, robot beam profilers, and stub welders to prepare beams for construction companies. Its portfolio of completed projects includes work at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Delta Airlines Terminal at DFW Airport, the Fannin Holcombe Parking Garage in Houston, the General Mail Facility in Baton Rouge, Lakeline Mall in Austin, the Super Collider E-1 Project in Waxahachie, Texas, and the Texas Motor Speedway.

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