George Kent (Malaysia) Berhad company's manufacturing division makes a line of brass components including water meters, stopcocks, ferrules, and fiberglass-reinforced polyester panels for water storage tanks. GKM's industrial marketing division offers products that serve the water, building, power generation, and oil and gas industries. Specific products include industrial process controls and instrumentation, valves and fittings, boilers, water meters, and automation systems. George Kent company's infrastructure division develops turnkey water projects for privatized water service. GKM's export division markets the company's products abroad, primarily in South Asia.

McMaster-Carr Supply Company distributes more than 480,000 mechanical, electrical, and utility products (98% of which are in stock), including air conditioners, clamps, drills, exhaust fans, generators, light bulbs, pipes, pumps, saws, switches, and valves. Family-owned, McMaster-Carr operates through five regional branches in the US that provide customer service, sales, warehousing, and management. Its Chicago headquarters drives IT, purchasing, merchandising, and electronic publishing. Customers order through an online or direct mail catalog. McMaster-Carr caters to industrial and commercial facilities, and federal agencies in the US and abroad.

Diploma was originally incorporated in 1931 and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1960. In 1969, the Group started to acquire a number of industrial companies.In the 1990's these traditional core businesses matured into cyclical, lower margin businesses. A new acquisition programme was introduced to diversify into new more attractive sectors.Towards the end of the 1990's there was a simultaneous downturn in the three traditional businesses. It was apparent that they were in structural decline and this prompted the decision to embark upon a radical re-structuring of the Group.Over the three years from 1998 to 2001, ten businesses were sold generating proceeds of more than £90m. Of this, £70m was returned to shareholders through a Scheme of Arrangement in April 2000 and various share buy-backs. The balance was retained to fund future acquisitions and growth initiatives. This phase of re-structuring delivered an increase in shareholder value of more than 80% over the three year period.The restructuring has also changed the geographic spread of the businesses. From being a predominantly UK based Group, Diploma is now more international. Only 25% of the Group's sales are now in the UK, with the balance mostly being generated in North America and Continental Europe. The Group is now actively seeking further acquisitions to accelerate growth and to build substantial, broader based businesses in the core sectors of Life Sciences, Seals and Controls.

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.

Nimgrove Sheet Metal Fabrications manufactures sheet metal using mild steel, aluminum, and stainless steel. The company produces its sheet metal using a variety of fabricating techniques. Nimgrove Sheet Metal's products are used by manufacturers of earth moving, materials handling, and office equipment among others. The company also serves customers in the automotive and defense industries.

Zoltek Companies, Inc., an applied technology and advanced materials company, develops, manufactures, and markets carbon fibers and technical fibers. Zoltek Companies's products include commercial carbon fibers, which are primarily used as a reinforcement material in composites. These products are sold to customers in the composite industry. Its technical fibers products include oxidized acrylic fibers and specialty carbon fibers used to manufacture aircraft brake pads, as well as used for heat/fire barrier applications in the aerospace industry. The company also engages in water treatment and electrical services businesses; the manufacture and sale of precursor raw material used in the production of carbon fibers; and the manufacture and sale of filament winding and pultrusion equipment used in the production of large volume composite parts. Zoltek Companies has operations primarily in Europe, the United States, and Asia.

Kreider Corporation was established in 1952 as a sheet metal shop, and today has grown to a dynamic metal stamping and four-slide house with value added capabilities in assembly, welding, tool making, product and tool design.

Farrel Corporation company's products include batch mixers, extruders (used to make hoses and sheathings), mills, and pelletizers under brand names Banbury, Technolab, and Intermix. It also provides related services, such as equipment upgrading, consulting, rebuilding, remanufacturing, and spare parts. Farrel sells its machinery to petrochemical, plastic resins, and plastic compounder firms. Rubber-making equipment customers include tire makers, automotive parts manufacturers, and footwear producers. In late 2009 Germany-based industrial conglomerate L. Possehl & Co. acquired Farrel for about $14 million.

IMI plc company has evolved to straddle five business areas. Its largest, Fluid power, engineers Norgren branded motion and fluid controls -- from truck air brakes to drug-dosing valves for OEMs. Severe service, including brands CCI and Truflo, makes critical control valves for power generation to pulp and paper plants. Sold under Cornelius and 3Wire labels, IMI Beverage supplies soft drink dispensers and on-line parts. An Indoor climate business designs FDI and Haimeier brand valves for commercial and residential HVAC. Displays (magazine racks, refrigerated units) are made by IMI's Merchandising. IMI operates primarily in Western Europe.

Heidelberg Graphic Equipment contributes to the world's overall betterment by helping provide the tools for reading, or at least the machines to make the tools for reading. Heidelberg Graphic Equipment is the UK division of top global printing machinery firm Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. Heidelberg Graphic Equipment company, which operates under the name Heidelberg UK, provides printing and publishing companies with sheetfed and web-based printing presses, as well as related components and software. Heidelberg has been operating in and addressing the UK for more than 150 years.

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