"Gone With the Wind" is a well-known Southern film, but if you need film for packaging, stick with Southern Film Extruders. The minority-owned company produces industrial film and resins for the packaging industry. Southern Film Extruders manufactures flat polythylene film (sheeting, tubing) for packaging and industrial uses. It also produces resins (low-density, metallocene) that help create the different varieties of film available (converter film, laminations, shrink wrap). Southern Film Extruders makes film and resin orders based on the needs of its clients. Southern Film Extruders company was founded in 1965; it has expanded over the years and opened an additional manufacturing facility in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Noritake began dishing out china for export not long after the time of Commodore Perry's efforts to establish trade with Japan in the 1850s. Today the company's Tabletop Group trades in dinnerware made of china, porcelain, stoneware, and earthenware; it also makes crystal stemware, glassware, and cutlery. Modern-day Noritake's largest unit is its Industrial Products Group, which makes grinding wheels and coated abrasives. Noritake company's Ceramics & Materials, Electronics, and Environmental Engineering segments make such products as catalyst carriers, dental porcelain and metals, vacuum fluorescent displays, ceramic sewer pipes, and kilns. Noritake has factories around the globe. Over 80% of sales are from Japan.

Pittards processes leather for use in gloves, footwear, and other goods.Pittards's glove leather division serves manufacturers of sport and dress clothing, as well as makers of military and other service-related uniforms. Its shoe and leather goods division produces cowhide leather for furniture, sporting goods, saddlery, and other products. Pittards' clients include Adidas, Louis Vuitton, Timberland, and Timex. The company has been in operation since 1826. Formerly 29%-owned by the founding Pittard family, Swedish investor Peter Gyllenhammar (backer of a number of other British manufacturing companies) bought a 65% stake in Pittards as part of its restructuring in 2006.

Printpack wraps its array of flexible and rigid packaging around salty snacks, confections, baked goods, and cereal, as well as tissues and paper towels. The company's packaging includes plastic film, aluminum foil, metalized films, and paper with specialized coatings, as well as cast and blown monolayer and co-extruded films. Its sustainable lineup is marketed under the Natura brand. Blue-chip clients include Frito-Lay, Georgia-Pacific, General Mills, and Quaker Oats. Printpack manufactures packaging at more than 25 plants in the US, UK, Mexico, Poland, and China. For more than half a century the Love family has owned Printpack company; Dennis Love, the son of Printpack's founder, serves as president.

Corning Cable Systems, part of the Corning Incorporated telecommunications segment, is a leading manufacturer of fiber optic communications system solutions for voice, data and video network applications worldwide. We offer the broadest range of end-to-end fiber optic and copper product solutions for customers' telecommunications networks. We put companies at the forefront of network innovation, pioneering many of the global products and solutions commonly used in state-of-the-art cabling systems.Corning Cable Systems develops and manufactures fiber optic cable, fiber optic and copper cable hardware and equipment including frames, cabinets, terminals, network interface devices, splice and test equipment, cable assemblies and fiber optic and copper connectors; as well as providing network services worldwide. Our commitment to total quality and superior customer satisfaction distinguishes us as a leader in the telecommunications industry.

United Brass Works is a manufacturer of high quality industrial valves for a variety of applications. The company was founded in 1910 in New York City and continues to grow by providing products from stock for immediate shipment from its factory and home office in Randleman, North Carolina and its warehouse and sales office in Pomona, California, whether you are looking for boiler valves, globe valves, angle valves, ball valves or custom industrial components. From its beginning as a manufacturer of steam valves and components for steam equipment, United has grown to be a world class manufacturer serving many industries including Boiler, Fire Protection, HVAC, Electrical Transformer, Industrial and Laundry and Dry Cleaning. In addition to standard items, such as fire protection or needle valves, United also provides custom cast and machined products made to customer's specifications. In addition, their non-ferrous foundry division pours pressure tight custom castings in a variety of alloys. Working with original equipment manufacturers as well as distributors, United's products are sold all over the United States, as well as internationally.

Stupp Bros has set a high standard as a structural steel fabricator, founded in 1856. Stupp Bros., a holding company, owns Stupp Bridge (fabricator of plate girder bridges), Hammerts Iron Works (maker of structural steel used in commercial, institutional, medical, and specialized buildings), Stupp Corporation (produces electric resistance welded pipe for oil and gas transmission), and Bayou Coating (coating for steel line pipe). The company also owns a majority of community bank Midwest BankCentre. The Stupp family controls Stupp Bros.

Couplings Company's products do help customers make the right connections with brass and nylon pipes, valves, and fittings. The company's products include a wide range of brass fittings made for air brakes, poly tubing, compressors, pipes, and garden hoses; as well as ball, needle, and shut-off valves; air and drain cocks; and copper, plastic, and rubber tubing. Other items include automotive brake lines, brass flare fittings, poly tubing, grease fittings, hose barb fittings, inverted flare automotive fittings, and radiant heater fittings.

Eklind Tool can't afford to be too superstitious. For those who have a hexagonal nut to tighten or loosen, the company has the hexagonal tool to meet their needs. Eklind Tool claims to have set the industry standard for a select range of industrial grade hand tools, including hex keys and wrenches, ball-hex keys, and screwdriver bits. Its brand names include Hex-L, Power-T, Ergo-Fold, Ball-Hex-Drivers, and others. The company's products range from penknife-sized fold-up key sets to four-drawer, 22-compartment tool organizers (plastic boxes) for use in workshops and garages.

The pipe business is piping hot for Charlotte Pipe. Charlotte Pipe reportedly is the largest manufacturer of drain, waste, and vent (DWV) pipe and fittings in the US, and operates one of the largest fittings molding facilities in the world. The company's cast-iron and plastic pipes and fittings are used in commercial and residential plumbing, and, under its ChemDrain brand, for chemical waste. Charlotte Pipe company runs a foundry in the Queen City and a division in neighboring Monroe, North Carolina, that produces thermoplastic plumbing pipes and fittings. Satellite extrusion plants operate in Pennsylvania, Florida, Alabama, Texas, and Utah. Founded by W. Frank Dowd in 1901, Charlotte Pipe company is controlled by the Dowd family.

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