J C Bamford Excavators, commonly known as just JCB, is such a popular brand in the UK that its residents often substitute "JCB" for the word digger, the same way Americans use "Kleenex" for tissue. Best known for making backhoes, JCB produces a variety of heavy equipment used in construction and farming, including crawler excavators, backhoe loaders, front-end loaders, material handlers, and the speed tractor (the Fastrac, which moves at about 45 mph). JCB is Europe's largest maker of construction equipment. Subsidiaries JCB Finance and JCB Insurance Services, respectively, provide equipment financing and insurance for equipment and workers.

Federal Screw Works is a manufacturer of fasteners and related items, primarily for the automotive industry. The company produces high-volume lots to the specifications of manufacturers. Nonautomotive sales are mainly to makers of durable goods. FSW's products include locknuts, bolts, piston pins, studs, bushings, shafts, and other machined, cold-formed, hardened, and ground-metal parts. It maintains five manufacturing facilities, all of which are located in Michigan.

Technimark satisfies our customer’s manufacturing needs through innovation, technical excellence and service. We foster a corporate culture of flexibility and a willingness to accept and capitalize on market changes, allowing us to grow and prosper along with our customers. Over time, this philosophy has led to the development of value-added services such as product development, high volume JIT production, decoration and complex assembly, warehousing and distribution. We serve a variety of key industries, including cosmetics, medical, confectionary and food, electronics, personal care, drinkware, household care, appliances, textiles, recreational products and media products. While we offer customized, end to end services for our customers, our foundation is based on technology and innovation, design and engineering, tooling, raw material, manufacturing, and decoration/assembly.

Porter-Cable tools are picked up by handymen and women, professional woodworkers and construction workers, and electricians and plumbers. The company manufactures electric tools (tabletop saws, bench top planers, and radial drill presses), cordless tools (drills and drivers, and combo kits), air tools (hammers, wrenches, nailers, and spray guns), and related accessories. In 2000 Porter-Cable merged with sister company Delta Machinery. Black & Decker, which later merged with The Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker, scored Porter-Cable from Pentair in 2005.

Schott AG's varied lines include architectural glass, kitchenware (Jenaer Glass), cooking surfaces (CERAN), optical, lighting, lab equipment, pharmaceutical packaging, stemware, and components for appliances, television, and computer screens. Schott is also involved in high-tech glass applications such as photovoltaics, fiber optics, lithography, and semiconductor manufacturing. Additionally, it makes hermetic enclosures for automotive and aerospace electronics and sensors. Three-quarters of the company's sales are generated outside of Germany. Schott, along with sister company Carl Zeiss, is owned by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, an independent foundation based in Germany.

The Connecticut Spring & Stamping Corporation (CSS) stamps an indelible impression on a diversity of markets worldwide. Aerospace, defense, firearms, and medical industries pepper its client roster. The manufacturer sells springs and metal stampings, fourslide/multislide/vertislide products (clamps, clips, and retainers), and assemblies. Engineering support includes custom design and production of close tolerance precision parts. CCS headquarters and manufacturing facilities operate in the US, with global production and warehousing capacity in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Singapore. Founded in 1939, the family-owned company is led by its second generation, CEO Peter Youmans.

InterfaceFLOR is flooring its customers with carpet tile. InterfaceFLOR is the largest modular carpet maker in the world, offering "free-lay" carpet to businesses, government and education entities, retailers, and hospitals. Its sister company, FLOR, offers a residential do-it-yourself carpet line sold throughout the US at Lowe's, Design Within Reach, and some 160-plus specialty retailers. The company's flooring systems consist of carpet tiles cut in squares or rectangles and laid to resemble traditional carpet. Interface chairman Ray Anderson brought modular carpet to the US from Europe in 1973 when he founded predecessor company Carpets International.

Agri-Fab has the tools to get the job done. Since 1973, the company has manufactured lawn and garden attachments for tractors and in recent years for three-wheeled all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). Among its lineup of rust-resistant tow-behind lawngrooming equipment are sweepers, aerators, carts, levelers, and mowers. Agri-Fab operates a 350,000-sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Illinois. Its products are sold through select dealers, such as the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Lowe's, Sears, and True Value. The company's customers also can order replacement parts through its website.

Scot Forge forges ahead in the manufacturing of open-die and rolled-ring forgings used for couplings, drive shafts, flanges, heat exchanger bodies, and ship shafts. The employee-owned company's customers are in the construction, defense, energy, general industrial machinery, power generation, and shipbuilding industries. A signature product is the Tartan Bar -- not a Scottish candy, but solid-center, rolled-surface round bars of metal. Scot Forge has a specialty alloy services team to help customers select specialty materials for open-die forgings and rolled rings. The manufacturer, which ships more than 250 million pounds of forgings a year, was founded in 1893.

Makita makes drills, grinders, hammers, jigsaws, sanders, saws, stationary woodworking machines, and products for the home, yard, and garden under the Makita and Maktec names. Customers include professional woodworkers, carpenters, master craftsmen, and construction workers, although some products are designed for do-it-yourselfers. Makita operates 48 subsidiaries worldwide (about 35 are located outside Japan) and has offices in more than 30 countries. Makita was founded in 1915 as an electric motor sales and repair company.

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