DY Concrete Pumps is a Texas-sized success story. Based in Alvarado, near Dallas-Fort Worth, the company offers high-end concrete pumps, a vast inventory of spare parts, and comprehensive customer support.
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DY Concrete Pumps
This Texas Company Offers Great Pumps and Stellar ServiceDY Concrete Pumps is a Texas-sized success story. Based in Alvarado, near Dallas-Fort Worth, the company offers high-end concrete pumps, a vast inventory of spare parts, and comprehensive customer support.
Lapeer Plating & Plastics
Made-in-America Automotive ComponentsWhen asked what makes Michigan-based, Class A automotive components manufacturer Lapeer Plating & Plastics, Inc. (LP+P) unique, Human Resources Administrator Joe DuBreuil is quick to reply.
Patriot Products Group
Soaring Growth, New Products, Same Customer Care FocusThe Patriot Products Group continues its dizzying growth, while introducing new products, tweaking existing wares, and codifying internal quality controls.
Rock Hard Landscape Supply
Products for Beautifying PropertiesRock Hard Landscape Supply is a family-run firm that stocks an array of products for beautifying lawns and properties. With four locations in Minnesota, the company stocks everything from mulch, boulders, and natural stone to hardscape items such as concrete pavers and walls, fireplaces, lighting, and pond supplies.
Grotnes
From Metal Rings to Custom ManufacturingIn 1898, Charles Grotnes (pronounced ‘Grote-ness’) founded an eponymous machine works in Chicago to provide services and products for a very specific industry. He “started a business to produce metal rings which held the staves of a barrel together,” Vice President, Jim Zielinski tells us.
Acorn Manufacturing
This Family-Run Iron Hardware Firm Forges AheadAcorn Manufacturing Company, Inc. is a decades-old family business in Mansfield, Massachusetts that manufactures and distributes forged iron builders’ hardware across the United States and abroad. Builders’ hardware refers to metal hardware products used to decorate or protect properties, or to enhance convenience. The company is proud that its goods are made in Mansfield and reflect the heritage of New England.
Xymox Technologies
High-Quality InterfacesAfter Xymox Technologies was profiled in Manufacturing in Focus in December 2018, the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based firm merged with the RAFI Group of Germany. This corporate collaboration has the potential to dramatically shake up the North American touchscreen and digital display markets.
Elasto Proxy
Family-Owned Fabricator Finds Its NicheThriving, family-owned fabricator Elasto Proxy of Boisbriand, Quebec specializes in high-end, low-volume industrial plastic and rubber components. The company also offers a suite of value-added services and maintains close relationships with its clients.
Eco-Flex
Leaders in Recycled RubberEco-Flex of Sturgeon County, Alberta, marked its 30th anniversary last year as a leader in the recycled rubber product market. The company is well-poised for future growth with products that appeal to clients looking for quality eco-friendly goods. Eco-Flex’s proprietary wares include an innovative sound barrier/residential wall as well as items for work sites, homes, and barns, all made from recycled rubber tires.
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Omega TMM
As the leader in global and American high-automation custom tool measuring since 1948, Omega Tool Measuring Machines is an award-winning shopfloor solutions management firm proud to celebrate 76 years of excellence this year.
C.H. Reed
In 1948, Charles Harold Reed launched C.H. Reed as an automotive parts supplier in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He quickly recognized a market need for industrial equipment ranging from compressors and pneumatic tools to paint spray products and pumps. “So, in the 1950s, he shifted from an automotive supplier to an industrial supplier,” says Marketing Manager Shane Vrankin. “We’ve been tackling the Pennsylvania market ever since then, and it continues to grow.”
NAVAC
True singularity in the industrial vacuum market is a rare find. Yet NAVAC has achieved just that. While reducing the carbon footprint of vacuum pumps operating in the market, this disruptor is cornering the market in revolutionary ways. Globally recognized as the largest international manufacturer of rotary vane pumps, producing a phenomenal 1,000 units daily on average and introducing many world firsts in this field, NAVAC’s name is synonymous with innovation and unwavering value.
Premier Gear & Machine Works
Premier Gear & Machine Works, a family-run firm in Canby, Oregon, is on the upswing after enduring some tough times. Founded over a century ago, the company performs fabrication, machining, manufacturing, and wire electrical discharge machining (EDM). It also repairs motors, gearboxes, and wind turbine gears and services and sells machinery for wood processing.
Quality Components Company (QCC)
Back in 1974, Quality Components Company (QCC) focused on repairing welding torches, regulators, and gas apparatus from other manufacturers. Known as Quality Repair at the time, the Mentor, Ohio-based business started in America’s famous ‘Rust Belt,’ a region known for its steelmaking and industrial manufacturing businesses.
Dorsey Trailer
Founded over a century ago, Dorsey Trailer of Elba, Alabama designs, manufactures, and fabricates trailers that haul goods on roads and highways. Its trailers have been used by NASCAR, country music bands, and even the makers of hit TV shows. Plenty of other clients, big and small, also favor the firm’s wares.