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In operation for more than 70 years, SunSource is one of the leading manufacturers of industrial and mobile fluid power distribution systems in North America. It offers a range of hydraulic products, such as filters, cylinders, pumps, pressure switches, oil coolers, motors, accumulators, heat exchangers and steering components. The company provides various motion control systems, including variable frequency drives, sensors, electric linear actuators, and coupling and locking collars. SunSource also offers several filtration products, such as valves, fabricated systems and gauges. It provides products from various manufacturers, such as Haldex, Daman Products Company and Accumulators. In addition, the company offers design, engineering, supply chain optimization, fabrication and repair services.

Freedom Graphic Systems is a direct mail printer with inline, finishing, collating, mailing and commingling capabilities. The company serves publishers, bankers, catalogers and retailers. It has the capacity to handle over 10 million pieces per day and an additional 10 million in-line self-mailers a day. As a solution-based company, Freedom Graphic Systems has a staff of more than 900 employees in Illinois, Wisconsin, Texas and California. Its services include data processing, strategy development, commingling, and mail and program management.

Kerley Ink is one of the oldest remaining privately-owned ink manufacturing companies in the United States. It was officially founded in 1947 by Raymond Ambrose Kerley, but the company's roots in the graphic arts go back considerablyfarther than that. As a matter of fact, they go all the way back to 1909, the year that the famous Indian Chief Geronimo died.In that same year, the then 16 year-old founder of Kerley Ink took the New York Central railroad from Schenectady, New York to Chicago to seek his fortune. There he found work as a "printer's devil" near downtown Chicago in a shop named The Regensteiner Press. The rest, as they say, is history.The Kerley Ink Story 1909-1982. A reprint of a feature story from the October 1982 issue of The American Inkmaker Magazine.