The Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA) is a large organization with a strong membership that represents the entirety of the electronic components industry supply chain, including distributors, manufacturers and independent manufacturer representatives.

Sometimes small communities have the biggest ideas. In LaPorte County, Indiana – in the northwest of the state on the southern shores of Lake Michigan – stakeholders are developing a new model for growth and development where collaboration and innovation is at the fore.

When it comes to the design and production of precision components, Utitec, Inc. not only provides a range of services and the ability to customize parts according to material and application; it builds relationships, and that in turn drives innovation, which has served as the foundation of the company’s growth and success.

Randy Horvat founded Cleveland Metal Exchange (CME) in 1994 to broker secondary stainless-steel materials to manufacturers in sectors where small defects didn’t matter. Today, CME’s offerings are far greater – a small but dynamic and effective player amongst industry big boys.

The RegO® name originated in 1908 with products for the gas-welding industry: oxygen fittings, values, and regulators that would serve the growing liquid-propane gas industry. Now, for more than a century, RegO® has continued to innovate, building capabilities and culture.

What makes Engineered Seals and Components instructive is not its product lineup, but that it outgrew its founders’ intentions because that’s what customers wanted. “It was supposed to be small scale, but that, however, did not work out,” says the company’s president.

Out of a need came an idea, and out of an idea came a movement. Women in Manufacturing (WiM) is a national trade association that offers a host of professional development, education, and networking opportunities that previously did not exist for women in industry.

For fifteen years, Shearwater Research has continually proven itself as a designer and manufacturer of wearable computers for open- and closed-circuit divers, instruments that are considered to be of the highest quality and used by divers who demand more from both themselves and the dive experience.

For technical and service excellence and highly innovative, customized, automation solutions for product lines, Haumiller Engineering of Illinois is a manufacturing partner that has the experience, the specialized expertise, and the desire. Plus the people.

With customers in the chemical, water, and food processing industries – not to mention aerospace, medical and other high-stakes sectors – there is no margin for error. Jrlon recognizes this and continues to deliver parts, solutions and service of the highest quality, doing so by growing its capacity and expertise across materials and manufacturing processes.

Farmers are some of the hardest working people on the planet. They’re tough, the job is tough, and tough jobs require the toughest equipment. Artex Manufacturing knows this and that’s why its equipment is designed and built by farmers, for farmers.

When it comes to the distribution and delivery of a broad range of products, capabilities and value-added services to industrial customers – predominantly metal machining and fabricators – size does matter. And nowhere is this more apparent than at BlackHawk Industrial, a company that is “big enough to serve, and small enough to care.”

Custom Rubber Products is not only one of North America’s largest molders of custom thermoset plastic products; it also has the capacity to manufacture a diverse spectrum of products for a variety of environments, using more than 250 active elastomer and phenolic compounds to do so.

When you think of vehicle manufacturing, images of SUVs, sports cars and family-friendly hatchbacks likely come to mind. There exists, however, a parallel manufacturing vehicle manufacturing sector devoted to products that typically aren’t sold to consumers. Non-consumer vehicles include everything from police cars and motorcycles to fire trucks and battle tanks.

The solar energy industry employs over a quarter of a million Americans who work for companies and organizations that are dedicated to the promotion, manufacture, installation, innovation and support of solar energy. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) represents all of them.

Small and major players in the oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, power distribution, marine and naval sectors turn to Aviva Metals, a master distributor with an expansive inventory and impressive in-house capabilities, when there is a need for copper based alloys, bronzes, brasses, coppers or other specialty alloys.

Summit Truck Bodies has a tradition of design and manufacturing excellence. The company, a division of Transwest, is an amalgam of several companies that have operated out of Wathena, Kansas since 2007. From a 132,000-square-foot facility strategically located near the geographic center of the continent, it can reach customers across the United States and Canada, as well as in South and Central America and the Caribbean.

Engage Technologies Corporation has distinguished itself as a leading manufacturer of printing and packaging solutions. Through its offerings, which encompass ink to packaging systems, it supports customers large and small in the food and beverage, electronics, medical, pharmaceutical, personal care, building products, consumer goods and contract packaging sectors.

Sonus Engineered Solutions is an NVH specialist and trusted Tier One supplier for customers like the ‘Big Three’ automotive companies – General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler. Its noise reduction products are designed, manufactured and tested in-house to meet the needs of the market.