Founded in 1923 as an electrical supply house, Turtle & Hughes demonstrates that slow and steady really does win the race to distributing electrical and industrial equipment. Turtle & Hughes company's exhaustive lineup is sold through three subsidiaries: Turtle & Hughes Integrated Supply, Turtle Data (wire, cable, and power protection devices), and TurtleEnergy (energy systems). Its customers include industrial and construction companies, electrical contractors, telecommunications servers, utilities, and various government agencies. Family-owned, Turtle & Hughes is led by its fourth generation, Jayne Millard, and third woman CEO.

Asahi Glass Company shatters the conventional image of glassmakers. The world's #1 maker of flat glass also claims the top spot in automotive glass, plasma display panel substrates, and fluorinated resins. Glass for construction, automotive, and other applications account for half of Asahi Glass' overall sales. The company's Electronics and Display division makes high-purity silicon carbide and synthetic quartz glass for semiconductors and glass substrates for LCDs, while its Chemicals unit manufactures soda ash, caustic soda, and other specialty chemicals. Subsidiaries include US-based AGC America and French glassmaker Glaverbel.

VWR International company distributes more than 1,200,000 laboratory products used in a diversity of scientific research fields. Its vast supply ranges from chemicals to lab instruments to protective clothing, produced by major OEMs including Merck KGaA, Carl Zeiss, Kimberly Clark, and Welch Allyn. VWR's lineup is sold worldwide to more than 250,000 pharmaceutical and biotech customers, as well as industrial, governmental, and educational organizations. Other services include technical support, storeroom management, and supply chain systems integration. VWR International company nets about half of its sales in North America.

Blanchard Machinery Company sells and rents new and used Caterpillar heavy construction and mining equipment throughout South Carolina. It also sells compact construction equipment (mini-excavators and skid-steer loaders) to serve landscaping and smaller contractor needs. Other products include diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. Blanchard Machinery maintains an extensive inventory of new and used parts and component systems; it also offers preventive maintenance and repair services. G. Robert Blanchard founded Blanchard Machinery company in 1982. His son, Joe Blanchard, is the company's president and CEO.

Eclipse has found a hot market: industrial heating and drying systems used by such industries as manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food, and pollution control. Eclipse company makes low-emission gas and oil burners and related combustion system components, as well as combustion systems for the ceramics and glass industries. It also offers design, installation, and service. Eclipse company's Algas-SDI subsidiary makes gas vaporizing and mixing equipment, while its Exothermic subsidiary produces heat exchangers and recuperators that process, dry, cure, bake, or finish products. Eclipse's customers include 3M, Dow Chemical, General Motors, and Owens Corning. Eclipse is owned by the family of former chairman Campbell Perks.

Festo AG & Co. KG was established in 1925. Festo AG & Co. KG company's products include valves, valve terminals, handling and assembly technology, drives, sensors, vacuum technology, and bus systems. Festo AG serves more than 300,000 customers in over 175 countries in the electronics, automotive, and food and packaging industries, among others. Festo company employs about 200 R&D engineers and operates from more than 250 branch offices; it also offers training courses, seminars, e-learning, and consulting services. Festo AG provides catalogues in more than 20 languages.

Emin Leydier's operations include Emin Leydier Paper Mills (paper for corrugated material), Emin Leydier Packaging (recycled corrugated cardboard for packing), and Emin Leydier Services (packaging services). Its elytra segment also acts as a strategic unit used to manufacture corrugated packaging for food products. Emin Leydier produces about 180,000 tons of corrugated cardboard annually. Forged in the merger of two firms belonging to Pierre Emin and Paul Leydier in 1975, the family-owned business owns subsidiaries in France, Spain, Italy, and the UK.

Curwood is a preferred supplier of innovative packaging materials and systems for food, beverage, household, industrial and personal care industries.Curwood maintains strategic manufacturing and service centers throughout North America, South America and Europe, and is well-positioned to meet global distribution and marketing needs. Headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Curwood is part of the Bemis family of companies.

Tennant Company engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing cleaning solutions worldwide. The company's floor maintenance and outdoor cleaning equipment, chemical-free cleaning technologies, specialty surface coatings, and related products are used to clean and coat surfaces in factories, office buildings, parking lots and streets, airports, hospitals, schools, warehouses, and shopping centers. It also offers sub-compact outdoor sweeping machines. The company markets its products and services to building service contract cleaners, end-user businesses, healthcare facilities, and schools, as well as local, state, and federal governments through its direct sales and service organization, and authorized distributors worldwide. Tennant Company was founded in 1870 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

ThyssenKrupp Materials International GmbH supplies more than 150,000 products, including carbon and stainless steel, pipes and tubes, industrial gases, coke, and new and used technical equipment for the manufacturing and production sectors. The company also distributes non-ferrous metals, and plastics. It customizes its materials products to client preferences by cutting, sawing, firing, milling, drilling, and coating. Additionally, it offers manufacturing process services, such as purchasing/production/sales support, plant logistics, and railway infrastructure engineering.

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