Draka manufactures elevator cables and wire rope and sells a variety of hoistway hardware, kits, and elevator electromechanical parts. It also makes components for escalator systems and offers customized products such as power-conducting cables, coaxial cable units, and other instrumentation wires and cables. Draka Elevator Products is part of Draka Cableteq, which in turn is a subsidiary of big Netherlands-based cabling company Draka Holding.

Deloro Stellite manufactures high-alloy wear-resistant components and consumables. The company specializes in making components (centrifugal castings, investment castings, resin shell castings, and wrought products), consumables (cast rod, coated electrodes, and tubular wire), and hardfacing equipment (thermal spray coating and welding equipment). Deloro Stellite also provides services such as coating, laser, and machining services. Customers include General Electric, Rolls Royce, Siemens, and Westinghouse. Deloro Stellite was purchased by UK-based private equity firm Duke Street Capital in 2006.

Plymouth Rubber Company, Inc. company makes a range of vinyl and rubber electrical tapes, automotive harness tapes, industrial tapes and films, and highway striping tapes. It sells primarily to the auto and electrical supply, utility and automotive industries. Plymouth Rubber's Brite-Line Technologies subsidiary makes highway marking and safety products, and Spain-based Plymouth Rubber Europa makes vinyl and cloth-based insulating tapes. Plymouth Rubber filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2005 and emerged in 2006 when Long Dash PRC LLC, largely owned by Chrysalis Capital Partners, bought a majority stake in Plymouth Rubber company.

MAHLE Powertrain (formerly Cosworth Technology) manufactures aluminum alloy casting powertrains and other vehicle engine parts using precision sand casting. The company's products include cylinder blocks, heads, and structural castings. Other products include adaptive and modular diagnostic tools used in industrial manufacturing. It also undertakes powertrain design and development and produces integrated powertrain assemblies for automotive, non-automotive, and construction equipment markets. Customers include Audi, Automobili Lamborghini, and Ford Motor. MAHLE Powertrain is a subsidiary of Germany-based auto parts manufacturer Mahle.

Ibstock Brick has literally helped build Great Britain (and its own bottom line) brick by brick. Ibstock Brick company, which started as Ibstock Collieries in 1899 to quarry clay and mine coal for brick manufacturers, is now the largest brick manufacturer in the UK, ahead of #2 Hanson and #3 Wienerberger. With nearly two dozen brick and paver manufacturing plants located throughout the UK, Ibstock has an annual capacity of more than 900 million bricks -- about 15 per UK resident. Rather than doling it out to the populace, however, its brick is used primarily in residential housing construction. Construction giant CRH plc acquired Ibstock in 1999.

Beghelli S.p.A. company manufactures and markets emergency lighting systems (more than 60% of sales) for industrial plants and home use. Beghelli also makes an array of electronic security systems, personal alarms, home automation mechanisms, and energy saving lighting. Other products include computer lamps designed to reduce eye fatigue, air purifiers, gas detectors, portable lamps, recessed lighting, and video accessories. High profile customers are the Vatican Museum, the Moscow Conservatory, McDonalds' chain, the Siviglia's Expo, and several US universities. Started in 1982 by Gian Pietro Beghelli, Beghelli continues to be controlled by the founder's family.

Founded in 1928, Nachi-Fujikoshi owns and operates more than 50 affiliated companies. About one-half of Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. company's sales stems from Asia and the Middle East. Nachi-Fujikoshi keeps Japan's industry rolling right along. A leading maker of ball bearings, the company produces cylindrical bearings, deep-groove bearings, and taper bearings. Although bearings account for around one-third of its sales, Nachi-Fujikoshi also manufactures cutting tools, hydraulic equipment, industrial furnaces, precision machining equipment, coating equipment, and special steels. Robots are manufactured by the company for arc welding, painting, handling, and automation uses.

Fitsco Industries would like to insert itself wherever it sees fit. Fitsco Industries, founded in 1990, makes threaded inserts for use in metal, plastic, and wood and MDF (medium density fiberboard) products. Fitsco's products are marketed under names that include Heatfit (for use with thermoplastic material), Mouldfit (thermoplastic and thermoset), Pressfit (self broaching inserts), and Screwfit (self-tapping inserts). Fitsco can also make parts based on customers' own drawings. The company also operates under the insertsdirect.com ltd.

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.

A. O. Smith Corporation engages in the manufacture and sale of water heating equipment and electric motors for the residential, commercial, and industrial end markets in the United States and internationally. The company operates through two segments, Water Products and Electrical Products. The Water Products segment manufactures and markets a line of residential gas and electric water heaters; standard and specialty commercial water heating equipment for restaurants, hotels and motels, laundries, car washes, and small businesses; copper-tube boilers; water treatment products; and water systems tanks. This segment sells its products through independent wholesale plumbing distributors, as well as through retail channel. The Electrical Products segment offers hermetic motors for air conditioning and commercial refrigeration compressors; and fractional horsepower fan motors for use in furnaces, air conditioners, and blowers. It also provides fractional horsepower motors for pumps for home water systems, swimming pools, hot tubs, and spas, as well as for garage door openers; and integral horsepower AC and DC motors for industrial and commercial applications.

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