Foamex International Inc. company, dba FXI-Foamex Innovations, is one of North America's largest makers of flexible polyurethane and polymer foams used in household, healthcare, and personal care products, as well as in electronics and industrial applications. Examples range from car interior trim to flooring, mattresses, core foam for inkjet cartridges, computer cases, industrial filters, and gaskets. FXI supplies finished goods, in addition to sub-assemblies and raw materials to myriad OEMs, including auto supplier Johnson Controls, and retailers. Beset by debt, FXI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in early 2009 and emerged in June of that year.

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.

Altman Lighting company manufactures lighting equipment designed for theatrical illumination of stages, stores, museums, churches, even outdoor venues. Altman Lighting's broad assortment offers commercial, industrial, and institutional fixtures including electric lamps, bulbs, and tubes for use in film and video and architectural markets, among others. Extending its reach, the company operates a rental subsidiary, too, Altman Rentals. It restructured in 2009 to cope with the economic slump. Charles Altman founded the company in 1953. It is owned by the Altman family, led by his son, Robert, and grandson Randall Altman.

Hirsch International Corp. company supplies single- and multi-head embroidery machines, embroidery supplies, machine parts, and software, as well as digital printers and textile lasers. Hirsch is the exclusive US distributor of Tajima Industries equipment (multiple-head embroidery machines), MHM screen printing equipment, SEIT textile bridge lasers, and other industry tech brands. Tajima-built equipment accounts for about 50% of sales. Core customers are manufacturers that produce thread, applique, and rhinestone-decorative apparel and accessories, uniforms, or sportswear, and apparel screenprinters and retailers.

Timken Company tries to keep its bearings straight. Timken makes bearings that find their way into products from consumer appliances to railroad cars. It also makes power transmission components, from automotive gear shafts and connecting rods to aircraft engine components. In addition, Timken makes more than 450 grades of alloy and carbon steels, producing bars, billets, tubing, and custom components for automotive and industrial applications. It also offer power transmission components, lubricants, seals, and motion control systems. About 60% of sales come from the US. Five generations of the Timken family have served the company since its founding by one-time carriage maker Henry Timken in 1899.

Superior Essex is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of wire and cable products. We are the world's largest producer of magnet wire, also known as winding wire, an insulated copper or aluminum conductor used by major original equipment manufacturers and distributors. In North America, we are the industry leader in outside plant copper communications wire and cable products. We also manufacture and supply fiber optic cables and premises copper cables. Superior Essex operates 20 manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal and China. We have more than 3,800 employees working around the world to supply the quality products that are essential to the operation of a wide variety of everyday household items and critical to day-to-day business operations.

Vatana Phaisal Engineering fabricates and installs sheet metal, structural steel, storage tanks, and industrial piping. It manufactures boilers and water tanks, and also provides plant shutdown and steam boiler repair services. It provides materials and services to chemical plants, power plants, refineries, and other industrial facilities in Thailand. Customers have included various divisions of Alstom, ABB, Foster Wheeler, and Mitsubishi. Vatana Phaisal Engineering operates from three fabrication plants --Samrong, Bangplee, and Khao Hinsorn -- located near Bangkok, and a services workshop in Nongbon. The company, founded in 1961, is part of the Vatana Phaisal group of industrial and engineering companies.

Tricorn Group helps its customers put the pieces together. It designs, manufactures, and distributes environmental engineering products. The group's primary operating companies are Malvern Tubular Components (tubular components and assemblies), Maxpower Automotive (tube manipulations and pipe assemblies), Redman Fittings (pipe jointing systems), RMDG Aerospace (pipes and fittings for aircraft), and issquared (engineering consulting services). Tricorn supplies customers worldwide in the manufacturing, power generation, and utilities industries, among others.

Highway Holdings makes metal and plastic parts and subassemblies for German, Japanese, and US manufacturers, including Braun, Casio, and Swatch. It also manufactures finished products such as LED lights and radio chimes. Highway Holdings' metal stamping business offers spray painting, screen printing, and plastic injection molding. To focus on its core business, the company exited its singe use camera, clock, and watch operations and sold off rights to the Kienzle brand of clocks. Although Highway Holdings operates factories in China, Europe accounts for about about 50% of sales.

Interstate Resources is not a fancy name for the latest US Highway Bill, but a paperboard and packaging products manufacturer. The company's offerings include linerboard, kraft paper (for bags), and corrugated medium board and packaging for consumer products and displays. It also produces timber and wood chips and burns the waste to fuel its plants; its sells the excess to the local power grid. Interstate Resources has about a dozen plants along the east coast. The company's products are sold in the northeastern, midwestern, and southeastern US and in Asia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe. Lebanese industrial manufacturer Indevco owns Interstate Resources.

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