Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells metal halide lighting products worldwide. It offers materials, system components, systems, and production equipments. The company produces and sells metal halide salts, electrodes, amalgams, and getters. It manufactures and sells optical thin film deposition equipments. The company also offers optical thin film coatings, including coatings for lighting applications, coatings for telecommunications products, multilayer magnetic films and emissivity modification films for classified government applications, and infrared multilayer optical films on flexible polymeric substrates. Its component products include specialty and standard lamps, magnetic and electronic power supplies, system controls, and fiber optic components.

Simpson Manufacturing makes connectors and venting systems for the building, remodeling, and do-it-yourself industries. Subsidiary Simpson Strong-Tie (SST) makes more than 11,000 types of standard and custom products that are used to connect and reinforce joints between wood, concrete, and masonry building components. Simpson Dura-Vent, meanwhile, makes venting systems for furnaces, water heaters, fireplaces, and stoves. Both units market globally and distribute through home centers and a network of contractor and dealer distributors. The Home Depot is a top customer of Simpson Manufacturing.

Delachaux makes track laying equipment, elastic fastener systems, and electrification systems. Its Conductic division makes production equipment for the cable and fiber-optic sectors, and conductor bars, reeling drums, and slip-rings for the transportation industry. The metal division produces pure chromium metal to make super-alloys and high-performance alloys. The special steel unit makes rough-cast pieces and machine-finished parts. The company makes most of its sales outside of France. Holding company SOGREPAR owns more than half of Delachaux.

Twin Disc, Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells marine and heavy duty off-highway power transmission equipment. Its products include marine transmissions, surface drives, propellers, and boat management systems, as well as power-shift transmissions, hydraulic torque converters, power take-offs, industrial clutches, and controls systems. The company sells its products to customers primarily in the pleasure craft, commercial, and military marine markets, as well as in the energy and natural resources, government, and industrial markets through direct sales force and distributor network worldwide. Twin Disc, Incorporated was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin.

Gerresheimer Glas is a glass act. It makes bottles and containers for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Through its four divisions - Tubular Glass, Moulded Glass, Plastic Systems, and Life Science Research - Gerresheimer company drives pharmaceutics packaging such as ampoules, cartridges, and laboratory glassware, as well as dosing systems such as disposable syringe systems, sprays, and dropper bottles, and cosmetics bottles for fragrances. Its US presence is held through pharma glass group Comar, and a joint venture, Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products, with Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2004 private equity firm Blackstone Group bought Gerresheimer Glas from Investcorp and J.P. Morgan Partners.

Quipp, Inc. company makes post-press newspaper-handling equipment that stacks, wraps, bundles, and loads newspapers. The company's Twin-Trak and Quipp-Gripp III conveyors move newspapers from the press to the mailroom, where the Viper wraps them in paper and adds identification labels. Stackers mechanically stack newspapers, and cart-loading systems automatically load the papers onto trucks. Computerized monitoring systems control the handling process. Quipp boasts more than 500 US and international customers; newspaper publisher Gannett accounts for about 10% of sales. Acquired in 2008, Quipp operates as a subsidiary of industrial behemoth Illinois Tool Works.

United Plastics Group, Inc. company makes plastic products and components utilizing mold building, injection molding, and micro molding processes. Its divisions are based on the automotive, consumer, electronics, industrial, and medical markets. Value-added products include heat transfer decals, heat staking, pad printing, and sonic welding. United Plastics (dba UPG), which operates more than 300 molding machines, has over 10 manufacturing plants across the US, as well as in China, Mexico, and the UK. UPG is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity firm Aurora Capital Partners.

Reinco helps shape landscapes. The equipment supplier makes power mulching and hydrograssing machinery, which can mulch, seed, and fertilize areas that are disturbed by residential and commercial construction. Landscape contractors use the machines to revegetate soil and control erosion near homes, schools, golf courses, cemeteries, mines, landfill reclamation sites, and other large, hard-to-access areas. Some of its products use emissions-certified diesel engines for a cleaner environment. Reinco sells its equipment and provides service maintenance through a US network of dealers.

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.

Precision Castparts Corp is a leading maker of investment castings used in jet aircraft, satellite launches, armaments, and medical applications (prostheses). Its Investment Cast Products segment makes jet engine parts, fluid management valves, and deep-hole boring tools. Forged Products and Fastener Products round out the company's three segments and cover the power generation and paper and pulp industries, as well as general industry. The cyclical aerospace market still accounts for more than half of PCC's sales. PCC's aerospace customers include jet engine makers General Electric (about 14% of sales) and Pratt & Whitney.

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