Stern-Leach Company hopes that metals not sparkling gems will be a girl's best friend. Stern-Leach fabricates gold and silver alloys for use by the jewelry industry. Its assorted lineup includes casting grain, fancy wire, round wire, sheet metal, solder, and tubing. Stern-Leach is reportedly the sole maker of Argentium, a tarnish controlling sterling alloy. In addition to manufacturers of jewelry, Stern-Leach caters to silversmiths, makers of giftware, pen manufacturers, and national mints. Jewelry designers also take advantage of the refiner's custom services such as in creating fused gold and bronze sheets. Stern Leach is owned by global materials processing company The Cookson Group.

A. Stucki Company designs and manufactures ball bearings, including roller side bearings, long travel side bearings, body side bearings, and resilient friction elements, for railroad freight cars worldwide. It also offers repair and reconditioning services, as well as rail car parts through its subsidiary operations. A. Stucki invests much of its revenue in R&D and designs turnkey systems. Besides the US, the company has operations in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the Ukraine. Arnold Stucki, a Swiss mechanical engineer and the author of Steel Car Design, founded A. Stucki Company in 1911. Gladstone Investment is a leading investor in A. Stucki.

German and Italian, GILDEMEISTER Italiana is a specialist maker of multi-spindle automatic lathes. GILDEMEISTER company also makes universal lathes, computer numerical control Swiss-type lathes, and other machine tools and accessories. It sells itself as being expert in "straight turning" technology, in which the length of the turned parts are quite a bit larger than the diameter. GILDEMEISTER Italiana has production facilities in Brembate di Sopra, Castelleone, and Tortona, Italy. Along with parent company GILDEMEISTER AG, the group aims to dominate the global lathe market.

PRAB (named after the first initials in the names of the company's founders) manufactures metal scrap reclamation systems and bulk material handling equipment. Its products include briquetting systems, conveyors, metal stamping scrap systems, and metal chip processing systems, which are used in the chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. Its Hapman division serves the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, plastics, packaging, mining and waste water treatment industries. Kalamazoo Acquisition, an investment firm led by PRAB's management, has acquired PRAB company and merged it with its newly formed Kalamazoo PRAB subsidiary.

M-real is for real. M-real Oyj produces about 6 million tons of paper and paperboard a year. M-real's paper offerings include coated papers for printing and publishing, specialty papers, and uncoated fine paper. The company's consumer packaging segment makes raw paperboard used in packaging and promotional material, and creates finished consumer packaging and advertising products. M-real's merchanting network supplies company-made products as well as products made by others throughout Europe.

Doncasters Group makes airfoils, casings, rings, and exhaust and combustion components, and other engineered products for use in aircraft engines. Other products include automotive turbochargers, and dies and tooling for the forging and casting industry. Doncasters also offers electromagnetic shielding services. It also manufactures precision components for equipment and vehicles used by the US armed forces. The company serves such customers as Boeing, GE Aircraft Engines, and Rolls-Royce.

The Kubota tractor has its roots on the Japanese farm. Although Japanese farms are traditionally smaller than those in America, the need for high performance and powerful maneuverability is the same. Kubota Corporation introduced its first tractor to the United States in 1969. Filling a product void in the American marketplace, the Kubota 21 horsepower L200 was an overnight success. As a result, Kubota Tractor Corporation (KTC) was formed in 1972 and the company introduced its first 12 h.p. four-wheel drive tractor in 1974. Although four-wheel drive was common among larger American tractors, it was unheard of in the compact sector and became a benchmark for the industry.Over the past quarter century, KTC has continued to expand its product line, with four lines of tractors, the BX, B, L and M Series. Kubota has successfully introduced compact construction equipment, turf equipment, lawn and garden equipment, pumps, generators and a variety of Performance-Matched implements and attachments. KTC is now the leading marketer and distributor of under 40-h.p. tractors in the United States, offering more than 80 tractor models.

Headquartered in Ware, Massachusetts, Kanzaki Specialty Papers is widely recognized as a world leader in the manufacture of surface coated materials.Customers in retail, financial, medical, commercial, industrial, and other markets, depend on Kanzaki for the finest direct thermal, thermal transfer, inkjet papers, and films.A wholly owned subsidiary of Oji Paper Company, Kanzaki enjoys a vast international network of over 19,400 employees, 24 manufacturing sites and 7 research laboratories worldwide.

Shop-Vac Corporation is the leading manufacturer of wet/dry vacuums and their accessories (filters, hoses, nozzles, and replacement parts) for home and industrial use. The company also sells a two-in-one product, the Blow Vac. Shop-Vac sells its vacuums online (Amazon.com) and in home improvement centers, such as Lowe's, as well as in appliance, discount (Wal-Mart Stores), and hardware stores (Ace Hardware), nationwide and in Canada. The company also sells replacement parts, filters, and other accessories online.

Maysteel is a manufacturer of custom precision sheet metal enclosures, assemblies, and components; it also manufactures its own proprietary furniture and electrical and telecommunications enclosures and switches under the SmartBank and Trinetics brands. Products range from small fan plate enclosures to large computer server cabinets, electrical distribution enclosures, and vending machine and ATM machine bodies. Its contract manufacturing clients have included IBM, Cisco, and Rockwell Automation. The company is owned by investment firm Everett Smith Group. The company operates three manufacturing facilities -- two in Wisconsin and one in Ireland.

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