Fiskars company makes shears, axes, and other cutting tools for gardening, crafts, school, and the office. In the kitchen, it offers up knives and cooking utensils, cookware, and tableware under the Fiskars, Iitala, Arabia, and Kitchen Devils names, among others. The firm also hooks outdoor enthusiasts with its Gerber and Silva brand hunting, fishing, and camping equipment, as well as with its Buster, Drive, and Inha Works brand boats. Fiskars also manages real estate in and around Fiskars Village, where the company was founded in 1649.

Sterling Crane is a Marmon Construction Services/Berkshire Hathaway company. Marmon Construction Services is a business sector within The Marmon Group, an international association of more than 125 autonomous manufacturing and service businesses with collective revenues of approximately US $7 billion. Berkshire Hathaway and its subsidiaries engage in a number of diverse business activities including property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, utilities and energy, finance, manufacturing, retailing and services. Common stock of Berkshire Hathaway is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading symbols BRK.A and BRK.B. Other members of this group include such companies as Procor Limited, Enersul, Marmon-Keystone, and Ecodyne Limited.

JM Eagle is the world’s leading manufacturer of PVC and PE plastic pipe. With greater strength, capacity and geographic reach than ever before, our resources provide an unmatched capability for new products, new materials, new applications and new processes. We consistently produce the highest quality plastic pipe in the industry and are committed to ensuring ongoing product excellence. JM Eagle recently announced a 50-year warranty on its products*. Plastic-pipe products from JM Eagle will maintain their performance for the next 50 years or the company will replace them. No other manufacturer of PVC pipe or PE pipe stands behind its products the way JM Eagle does.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation company manufactures measurement instruments and industrial automation and control systems. Its integrated systems include software and components for analysis, measurement and recording, monitoring and control, and testing. Yokogawa's customers include oil refineries, power plants, pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturers. Yokogawa Electric Corporation company produces navigational devices (autopilots and gyrocompasses) for marine use and flat panel displays used in passenger jets.Yokogawa also offers information technology services, including database management and networking. Although the company has operations in some 30 countries, Japan accounts for about 50% of its sales.

RIS Paper Company, Inc. company is a giant merchant of paper and packaging. RIS Paper purchases, warehouses, sells, and distributes fine printing papers and communication products, such as magnetic media, copier, laser, and computer papers. Its product lineup includes industrial and packaging products, from films and tapes to corrugated, strapping, and packaging equipment. A branch-based sales force markets to a diverse roster of small to large commercial printers and publishing houses, catalog and retail businesses, and institutional and government organizations.

Nichols Wire began in 1952 as Alabama Wire and is located in a 250,000 square foot facility in Northern Alabama. Nichols Wire is recognized as the world’s largest as well as leading, manufacturer of bare mechanical alloy wire products . Aluminum nails and rod are also produced.Markets are serviced through direct sales to OEM’s and indirect sales through processors and distributors. End use markets include transportation, aerospace, consumer durables, marine, building / construction and electrical.

Rockwell Automation, Inc. provides industrial automation power, control, and information solutions. Rockwell Automation company operates in two segments, Architecture & Software, and Control Products & Solutions. The Architecture & Software segment offers control platforms, which perform multiple control disciplines and monitoring of applications, including discrete, batch, continuous process, drives control, motion control, and machine safety control; software products, such as configuration and visualization software used to operate and supervise control platforms, advanced process control software, and manufacturing execution software that addresses information needs between the factory floor and a customer's enterprise business system; and rotary and linear motion control products, sensors, and machine safety components. This segment markets its products primarily under the Allen-Bradley, A-B, Rockwell Software, and FactoryTalk brand names. The Control Products & Solutions segment provides electro-mechanical and electronic motor starters, motor and circuit protection devices, AC/DC variable frequency drives, contactors, push buttons, signaling devices, termination and protection devices, relays and timers, and condition sensors; and value-added packaged solutions, such as configured drives, motor control centers, and custom-engineered panels for original equipment manufacturer and end-user applications. It also offers automation and information solutions, including custom-engineered hardware and software systems; and provides total life-cycle support services.

Trim-Lok locks in profits by making high quality, competitively priced vinyl and rubber trims and seals. Its divisions, which include Industrial Extrusions (Mylar wrapped trim, 3M adhesive attachments), Rubber Trim Products (rubber, neoprene, and silicone extrusion), and GripTek (molded grips for fitness and gardening equipment), make standard and customized products -- decorative trim and flap seals, instant adhesive, locking gaskets, rubber guards, regular and upholstery trims, cutting tools and accessories -- for aerospace, automotive, furniture, boating, and RV applications. Trim-Lok distributes more than 200 different aftermarket offerings through 30 domestic and almost 10 international stock locations.

Sandvik Coromant Company manufactures metal cutting and machine tools used in milling, turning, boring, and drilling. The tools are made from cemented carbide and other extremely hard materials like synthetic, diamond and cubic boron nitride, ceramics, and high speed steel. Sandvik Coromant offers more than 25,000 products to customers in the aerospace, automotive, general engineering, medical, and die and mold industries. It has operations in some 60 countries worldwide.

Rexnord Holdings, Inc. (RHI) is king in many North American markets. Its operating subsidiary RBS Global functions through two divisions: Process and Motion Control (formerly known as Power Transmission) and Water Management, which is made up of four companies, including Zurn Industries, Rodney Hunt, GA Industries, and Fontaine-Alliance. Process and Motion Control manufactures gears, couplings, industrial bearings, seals, and specialized components, under Rex, Falk, and Link-Belt brands. Its Water Management division provides products under the Zurn brand for professional grade specification plumbing and water control and treatment applications.

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