GILDEMEISTER AG Company's Deckel Maho subsidiary manufactures milling machines and machining centers. Another subsidiary, Lasertec, manufactures cutting tools that utilize laser technology. GILDEMEISTER's other products include universal lathes and turning centers. GILDEMEISTER Company also provides technical services that include its spare parts business, training products, used-machine trading, and product service for the life of the machine through its DMG subsidiaries. Although GILDEMEISTER sells its products from about 30 locations worldwide, Germany generates nearly half of its sales.

Aluminum extrusion processes begins with making precision-formulated billets in its foundry. Its reverberatory furnaces melt and process aluminum ingots; these are later cast into finished logs. Aluminum Shapes creates billets for all of its extrusion needs, as well as billets for sales to external customers. The company's major customers include architectural, defense, and transportation industries. One of the largest privately held aluminum extruders in the US, Aluminum Shapes is an operating subsidiary of Shapes/Arch Holdings LLC.

Vitro America™ is a leading fabricator and distributor of architectural glass and aluminum in the United States. Vitro America has built its reputation on providing the highest quality products and services to meet the needs of the architect, designer, developer, and glazing contractor. With more than 20 distribution, manufacturing and fabrication facilities throughout the United States, Vitro America offers a complete array of glass products to meet the design requirements of the complete building team. The assortment of products meld the elegance and functionality of glass, and are suited for virtually any glass application—whether in an office building, museum, restaurant, university, hospital, church or resort. Vitro America forms part of the Flat Glass business unit of Vitro, one of the largest glass manufacturers in the world backed by 100 years of experience. Vitro America is a proud member of the Glass Association of North America (GANA), the National Glass Association (NGA), the Americas Glass Association (AGA) and the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

Hydrogenics Corporation (Hydrogenics) together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops and manufactures hydrogen generation products based on water electrolysis technology and fuel cell products based on proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology. The Company’s maintains operations in Belgium, Canada and Germany. The Company operates in four segments: OnSite Generation, Power Systems, Test Systems, and Corporate and Other business. OnSite Generation business segment develops products for industrial gas, hydrogen fueling and renewable energy storage markets. Power Systems business segment develops products for stationary and motive power applications. Test Systems business segment provides fuel cell testing services and sold fuel cell test stations. Corporate and Other business segment provides corporate services and administrative support.

Sumitomo Rubber is on a roll and stays in the swing of things just sitting on the dock of a bay. A key player in the Sumitomo Rubber Group, Sumitomo Rubber Industries company is Japan's #2-maker of passenger, truck, and racecar tires. Its line offers aluminum car wheels, too. Sumitomo Rubber allies with Goodyear Tire & Rubber to make and sell Goodyear-brands in Japan, and Goodyear makes and markets Sumitomo's Dunlop brand tires in North America and Europe. Procurement and technological development are also linked. Sumitomo's smaller sister operations, SRI Sports, makes golf and tennis gear and SRI Hybrid, industrial wares such as precision rubber components for office automation equipment and marine products, dock fenders to skirts.

Flow International makes waterjet cutting and industrial cleaning systems with ultrahigh pressure (up to 94,000 pounds per square inch). Its machines are used to cut metallic and non-metallic materials in the aerospace, automotive, and steel and stonecutting industries; they are also used to cut food and paper. Flow International manufactures robotics and automated assembly equipment, isostatic and flexform press systems, and consumable waterjet system parts, such as seals, garnet, and orifices. The US accounts for about 60% of the company's sales.

Andritz is a provider of production equipment focusing on five business areas: Hydro (now the company's largest segment generating more than 40% of revenues); Pulp & Paper; Metals (rolling mills and strip processing lines); Environment & Process; and Feed & Biofuel. The company goes crackers for water turbines and pumps, primarily for the hydropower, and pulp and paper industries. CEO Wolfgang Leitner is the managing director for Certus, an investment firm that owns almost 30% of Andritz. Andritz AG dates back to 1852, when it was established as an industrial foundry and machine works.

Since the 1830's, there has been industrial activity on the current site of the Blue Heron Paper Mill. At times, the site has been used as a flour mill, a sawmill, a brick operation, a woolen mill and a paper mill. The Oregon City mill as it is today started in 1908 as the Hawley Pulp and Paper Mill. W.P. Hawley bought the mill and adjacent properties and eventually installed four paper machines to produce a variety of paper products including fruit wrap, bread paper, wrapping paper, toweling, bags and newsprint.Ownership transferred to the Los Angeles Times as Publishers Paper Co. and then to Jefferson Smurfit Corporation. The Oregon City mill led the Pacific Northwest into the reclamation of old newspapers with a 25 ton/day deinking plant in 1975. Today, old newspapers and magazines comprise over half our raw materials.Blue Heron Paper Co. can recycle over 600 tons per day of newsprint, magazines and other paper and make a variety of grades of newsprint, high bright specialty papers, converting and bag papers.

Norman Hay has a hand in processing, coatings, and metal finish surfaces. Armourcote provides surface coatings; BK Engineering specializes in precision machining and sheet metal fabrication; Plasticraft designs, manufactures, installs and manages immersion process plants; Surface Technology provides surface corrosion resistant coatings; and Ultraseal specializes in vacuum impregnation technology for the fluid technology field. Norman Hay's primary customers are in the aerospace, automotive, electronics, marine, and textile industries.

One of Japan's largest agricultural-machinery makers, Iseki produces an array of tractors, combine harvesters, and tillers for each phase of vegetable and rice farming. Although machinery for rice production is a revenue mainstay, consumer purchases of compact tractors, mowers, and lithium-ion battery run tillers have grown. Iseki supplies AGCO Corporation with OEM models for the US, as well as teams up with smaller equipment makers to develop machines for specialized crops and farming chores, like separating harvested vegetables. Many of the Iseki products for Asian markets are made by Iseki-Changzhou, a China-based subsidiary.

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