TM GE Automation Systems unites the power, expertise, and marketing leverage of three global corporations. A joint venture among Toshiba, Mitsubishi Electric, and General Electric, the company designs and develops advanced automation and drive systems. TM GE Automation Systems specializes in serving the metals, paper, and material handling industries; it also serves those in municipal, utility, and industrial markets. TM GE Automation Systems has major operations in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, the UK, and the US, and operates offices on five continents.

Yaskawa America, Inc. - Motoman Robotics Division company makes industrial robots that weld, assemble, cut, and handle goods for manufacturers. It also offers related process controls, positioning systems, welding equipment, and operating software. Motoman and sibling Drives & Motion Division (a maker of control products, AC servo motors and drives, and inverters, formerly Yaskawa Electric America), combined to form Yaskawa America, a unit of Yaskawa Electric Corp. (YEC) of Japan, one of the world's top manufacturers of industrial robots.

Colfax Corporation designs, manufactures, and distributes fluid handling products that transfer or control liquids in various applications worldwide. Its fluid handling products include pumps, fluid handling systems and controls, and specialty valves. Colfax Corporation company manufactures rotary positive displacement pumps, which include screw pumps, gear pumps, and progressive cavity pumps. Colfax Corporation’s fluid handling systems product line consists of oil mist lubrication systems, which are used in rotating equipment in oil refineries and other process industries; custom designed packages used in crude oil pipeline applications; lubrication and fuel forwarding systems used in power generation turbines; packages for commercial marine engine rooms; and fire suppression systems for navy applications. It also provides repair and retrofit services for products manufactured by other valve suppliers. Colfax Corporation company markets its products under the Allweiler, Fairmount, Houttuin, Imo, LSC, Portland Valve, Tushaco, Warren, and Zenith brand names. Its products have applications in the fields of commercial marine, oil and gas, machinery lubrication, power generation, global navy, and commercial construction. Colfax Corporation company sells its products through a combination of direct sales and marketing associates, and third-party distribution channels. Colfax Corporation was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Technical Materials, Inc. provides a variety of metals processing services, including cladding, electroplating, electron beam welding, and solder coating, to produce specialty strip metals. The company works with materials such as aluminum, copper, nickel, and steel. It maintains a 125,000 sq. ft. facility in Rhode Island and serves customers in the aircraft, automotive, computer, alternative energy, medical, jewelry, and telecommunications industries. Founded in 1968, TMI is a subsidiary of Brush Engineered Materials. TMI has offices worldwide.

Arroyo Process Equipment company is a distributor of mixers and pumps (including diaphragm metering pumps, high-viscosity blenders, and slurry pumps) for industrial applications. Arroyo Process Equipment carries products made by such manufacturers as Crane Co., IDEX, and Hayward Industries. The company also sells belts, drives, fabricated couplings, and custom starter panels and control systems. In addition, it offers maintenance, repair, shipping, and training services. The US Department of Defense is one of Arroyo's many customers. Arroyo has three sales centers in Florida and additional operations in the Dominican Republic.

Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions (formerly Color Kinetics) can give a chameleon a run for its money. Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions company, operating as Philips Color Kinetics, makes digital lighting products for a variety of commercial and consumer applications. Its Chromacore products generates virtually millions of colors and a variety of dynamic lighting effects using microprocessor-controlled light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also makes power supplies and controllers used in conjunction with its lighting products. Customers come from the aerospace, architectural, entertainment, and vending and gaming industries. Philips Color Kinetics is part of Luminaires, itself a division of Royal Philips Electronics' lighting unit.

President and founder Andrew Bass started Angstrom Engineering Inc. in 1992. Angstrom Engineering company, named for a unit of measurement equivalent to the size of one atom, designs and makes custom vacuum systems and thin-film deposition equipment for use in research laboratories and industrial manufacturing. Angstrom's systems are designed for manufacturing such products as flat-panel displays, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), photovoltaic components, and semiconductors. Other applications include nanotechnology, materials science, and aerospace testing. It also produces related subassemblies and components. Customers include NASA, Nortel, and the University of Texas.

Mid-America Packaging seems to have the packaging business in the bag. Mid-America Packaging company makes a variety of multi-wall paper bags. It sells its wares primarily to customers in the construction materials, charcoal, chemicals, foodstuff, and pet products industries. It also offers additional features for its bags that include tear string openings, handles, and heat seals, and its bags can come with up to five plies. Mid-America Packaging's operations include multi-wall bag plants in Twinsburg, Ohio, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Mid-America Packaging company was founded in 1985.

InterfaceFLOR is flooring its customers with carpet tile. InterfaceFLOR is the largest modular carpet maker in the world, offering "free-lay" carpet to businesses, government and education entities, retailers, and hospitals. Its sister company, FLOR, offers a residential do-it-yourself carpet line sold throughout the US at Lowe's, Design Within Reach, and some 160-plus specialty retailers. The company's flooring systems consist of carpet tiles cut in squares or rectangles and laid to resemble traditional carpet. Interface chairman Ray Anderson brought modular carpet to the US from Europe in 1973 when he founded predecessor company Carpets International.

Howle Holdings has a firm grip on tooling, cutting, and carbide products. Howle Holdings manufactures branded products from three divisions -- Elektron Components (Arcolectric and Bulgin; electro-components); Hard Metals (Total Carbide and Titman; industrial and tungsten carbide router cutters); Elektron Instruments (Digitron, Sifam, and Queensgate; instrumentation products). Its seven operating subsidiaries are located in China, North America, Tunisia, and the UK. Howle also offers a variety of engineering and computer-aided design services. Howle Holdings company serves customers in the automotive, aerospace, medical, mining, and engineering industries. In 2006 UK-based electronic components manufacturer Elektron PLC bought Howle.

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