United States Pipe and Foundry Company (US Pipe) manufactures ductile iron pipe, fittings, valves, gaskets, and hydrants. The company is a unit of Mueller Water Products, which was spun off by Walter Industries (now Walter Energy) in 2006, and accounts for 29% of Mueller's sales. Walter acquired US Pipe in 1969. The company makes pipe at four plants in the US, in Alabama (two), New Jersey, and California. US Pipe also manufactures pipe in metric dimensions for the international market. The company primarily serves the water and wastewater industries.

Automotion Inc. designs and manufactures the hardware for package conveyor systems and sorters for distribution centers, warehousing facilities, and manufacturing plants. Products include belt, belt-driven live roller, V belt-driven live roller, shaft-driven live roller, and sortation conveyors, as well as direct-drive gearmotors. Automotion's partners supply a number of services and products including systems controls, pallet conveyors, steel fabrication, installation, and lifetime support. A subsidiary of Wynright Corp., Automotion distributes its products throughout North and South America. Customers include Crate & Barrel, General Medical, McGraw-Hill, and Pac Sun, to name a few.

In 1928 Targetti begins in the heart of Florence's historical center. It's a little artisan shop, selling lamps and related goods. In the late 190s Targetti starts producing chandeliers. The dimensions of the firm grow quickly and it becomes a fully integrated industry equipped with modern machineries and specialized technicians.Today the company produces and markets over 3000 lighting fixtures and systems which are the perfect synthesis of function and design. Technically advanced lighting fixtures backed by top level research meet with the pure shapes and essential lines of consistently up-to-date designs, suitable for any architectural context.

Fives which specializes in thermal and mechanical equipment, makes industrial machinery for the aluminum, automotive, cement, energy, glass, steel, and sugar industries. Offerings range from furnaces and cryogenic pumps to the construction of large-scale manufacturing plants. Customers include Baosteel, Holcim, Air Liquide, ThyssenKrupp Stainless, and Qatar National Cement Company. Subsidiary Fives Cinetic (formerly Cinetic Sorting) makes sorting and materials handling equipment for logistics, postal, and freight forwarding applications. Fives operates in more than 30 countries.

The MJ Allen Group company's iron foundry, non-ferrous foundry, and machining subsidiaries make precision gauges, tools, dies, punches, architectural steel, and ornamental ironwork under brands including Rydal, Mather & Smith, Foremost, Hunton, and Verdict distributed in Europe and the US. Its automotive group makes National brand brake and clutch parts sold in Eastern Europe as well as Countytrac transmissions sold in the UK. Managing Director Tim Allen controls a majority share of The MJ Allen Group.

Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc company is one of the world's leading makers of flowmeters, temperature and pressure controls, and steam traps for management of steam and industrial fluids. Spirax-Sarco also makes peristaltic pumps through its Watson-Marlow Bredel division. These specialized pumps are able to move fluids such as chemicals, waste, and food products without contaminating either the pump or the substance being transported. Spirax-Sarco's customers include companies in the air-conditioning and heating, oil refining, chemical, pharmaceutical, plastic and rubber, food, and textile industries.

Bryant Rubber keeps it eye on the ball as a manufacturer of engineered, precision molded polymer components, using liquid injection, injection, transfer, and compression processes. End products include connector grommets, thin wall diaphragms, fluid and gas flow seals, septum closures, and a range of medical products. Bryant Rubber has developed the Select Primerless Adhesion Polymer System, a technology which allows primerless adhesion of silicone rubber to plastic substrates. Bryant Rubber Corporation company also provides rubber-to-metal bonding processes and other specialty applications. The family-owned company was founded in 1971 by Bill Bryant.

Control -- it's all in the valves at Jet Research, dba Valve Research & Manufacturing. The company designs and manufactures an array of industrial precision valves, from check to solenoid, and related devices, including flow regulators, pressure reducers, and manifolds. Its lineup is one of the most frequently used types of pneumatic control in aerospace, oceanographic, and offshore oil exploration equipment. The company's solenoid valves, for example, are vital to the fuel control system on Boeing's commercial aircraft. Its hydraulic valves help drive military crawlers, and its landing gear valves, Beechcraft's turboprop-powered planes. Started in 1975, Jet Research is led by founder and president, Paul Cruz.

W. S. Darley & Co. company makes firefighting equipment, including pump and foam systems and fire trucks. Its extensive range of products includes emergency lights and sirens, fire protection nozzles and other gear, forest fire drip torches, hazmat equipment, rescue tools, and traffic cones. W. S. Darley, which has a track record of sizeable export and US Department of Defense (DoD) contracts, partners with Odin Foam (compressed air foam systems R&D), PolyBilt (truck bodies), and Ohler Pumps (centrifugal pumps). It ships its products to over 70 countries. Darley company has been family owned and operated for four generations.

Delta Tau Data Systems company makes motion and machine-control products, including board and system level motion controllers, amplifiers, converters, control panels, and machine tool controllers. It also offers software tools used to develop applications for the hardware. Delta Tau Data Systems serves a wide range of industries, including general automation, robotics, machine tools, medical and packaging equipment, and semiconductor manufacturing. Founded in 1976 by Dimitri S. Dimitri, Delta Tau Data has offices in China, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

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