The last few years of lockdowns have been long and challenging. Isolation and job losses have affected the world. Industries across the board have been forced to adapt and move to remote work or let employees go.

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Who’s the Boss?The last few years of lockdowns have been long and challenging. Isolation and job losses have affected the world. Industries across the board have been forced to adapt and move to remote work or let employees go.
Performance Plastics Ltd.
Celebrating a Milestone with New Products and Big GoalsPerformance Plastics Ltd. (PPL) of Cincinnati, Ohio marked its fortieth anniversary this year as a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance thermoplastic components. The company works with specialized polymers and tight tolerances, and follows rigorous quality assurance protocols. It anticipates big growth shortly, based on its wealth of experience and cutting-edge products such as EnduroSharp® aerospace maintenance tools.
Pierce-Roberts Rubber Co.
A Century & CountingPierce-Roberts Rubber Company of New Jersey manufactures custom-molded rubber products for companies nationwide. The company was started by R.J. Pierce, who purchased a warehouse in 1911 in Trenton, New Jersey to house goods and begin manufacturing. He met fellow businessman Harry Roberts in 1922, who owned his own rubber company, and the two merged their businesses to form Pierce-Roberts.
RegO Products
Cleaning up Clean Energy SolutionsWith a broad range of flow-control components and engineered-to-order applications, including a wide array of valves, pressure regulators, and safety devices for mission-critical applications using gases in liquid form, RegO Products offers peace of mind that equipment will perform optimally, safely, and reliably time and time again.
Pack-Smart Inc.
Solving Complex Problems With Smart SolutionsInnovative and performance-driven, Pack-Smart Inc. develops, engineers, and produces high-performance, fully automated modular systems for printing, converting, personalizing, and packaging, as well as industrial and digital automation. The company’s ability to create hardware and software innovations that address difficult engineering, manufacturing, and distribution challenges while attaining the highest speeds, greatest precision, and world-class Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is one of the many keys to its success.
Redline Plastics
Legacy Manufacturing With a Modern TwistWith its roots going back a century, this family-owned company provides solutions to clients both domestic and international. And innovation, quality, and professionalism are just a few of the words its customers have used to describe Redline Plastics.
Adaptec Solutions
To Grow a Company, Start by Growing Your CustomersAdaptec Solutions is a full-service provider of automation and material handling solutions with lifecycle service capabilities. Adaptec increases the productivity and profitability of its customers with an integrated system of analytics and connectivity, tracking and diagnosing equipment performance, making the process of resolving operational complexity far simpler.
Atlas Technologies, a Division of Stonebridge Technical Enterprises, Ltd.
Rocking the Globe – Atlas Technologies Remains Bigger, Better, StrongerFor industrial pressroom automation to stand the test of time, the equipment must be as tough as the environments in which it operates. After more than half a century in industrial pressroom automation, Atlas Technologies has perfected the art of durability.
Liburdi
High-tech Innovation for the Critical-Missions MarketFor more than 30 years, Liburdi has been a leader in the development of advanced technologies to serve time-sensitive and mission-critical industries such as aerospace, nuclear, oil and gas, and energy.
Leonhardt Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Better Ways to BendRecent shifts in the geopolitical landscape underpinning the supply chain have seen a deliberate move toward reestablishing manufacturing on North American soil. While this will take time, some world-renowned fabricators never left. One such company is Leonhardt Manufacturing Co., Inc., a homegrown trailblazer in metal fabrication. For more than half a century, it has been the go-to for all things metal tubing and fabrication.
Paragon Manufacturing Corp.
Reaping the Benefits of Lean Management & High StandardsQuality is imperative, but nowhere is this truer than in food service. Those involved in what goes into our precious stomachs must work with companies equally committed to high quality and must choose their partners carefully.
Viva Healthcare Packaging
The Beauty of Better PackagingWhen COVID-19 hit, our certainties—like days in the office, weekends with friends—were suddenly gone.
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The Reshoring BoomWho doesn’t want to see the local economy come back stronger than ever post-pandemic?
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Schmalz
Good companies change; great companies evolve. And few have adapted over the years like Schmalz, starting in 1910 as a razor blade business in Germany. Founder Johannes Schmalz was an entrepreneur far ahead of his time—how many businesses establish their own hydroelectric plant on a river to power their machinery?
bioLytical Laboratories
Early illness detection is a precious tool for maintaining health and making rapid, well-informed health decisions. And it’s something bioLytical Laboratories Inc. has honed via its leading-edge solutions for infectious illness diagnosis, the first step in connecting patients with proper care and treatment and even saving their lives.
Photodigm
Back in March, Congressman Colin Allred toured Photodigm’s facilities in Richardson, Texas, and liked what he saw. A member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas’s 32nd district, Congressman Allred’s visit underscored the importance of America’s CHIPS and Science Act.
Torvan Medical
A leading company in the design and production of products for medical and scientific sectors, Torvan Medical employs exemplary craftsmanship with a focus on creating and marketing cutting-edge products for infection control and preventing cross-contamination. Whether it’s ergonomic decontamination devices such as sinks, height-adjustable workstations, or endoscopic cabinets, Torvan continually stays ahead of the curve.
PAMA Manufacturing and Sterilization
In little more than a decade, PAMA has grown into one of Canada’s top specialists in ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization and the manufacture of medical devices. Focused on single-use custom medical kits and accessories for other businesses through its private label, PAMA (short for Production of Advanced Medical Accessories) also meets the needs of customers through its own brand.
SterileCare Inc.
Catheter lock solutions are medically tested and approved liquids used to promote the anti-coagulation of blood and to provide antimicrobial protection inside catheter tubing while it is not in use. But not all lock solutions are equal. Canadian SterileCare Inc.’s patented KiteLock 4%, a non-antibiotic antimicrobial catheter solution, is destroying superbugs on home soil and beyond.