Water Products Company

SiPi Metals Corporation was founded in 1905 and now employs more than 150 people and generates approximately $80 million in annual sales. The company has interest in the refining of precious metal scrap generated in the electronics, chemical, photographic and aerospace industries. SiPi Metals also refines scrap for the defense and military industry. The company specializes in the treatment of large quantities of scrap, which are heavily contaminated with fiberglass, plastic and precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum. Sipi Metals has the capacity to treat 2,000 tons per month and will return gold and silver remains in the scrap to the company or pay for the metals at world market prices.

Carter-Hoffmann is one of the leading suppliers of commercial food service equipment with products for holding, transporting, rethermalizing and serving. For more than 50 years, Carter-Hoffmann has been serving banquet guests, quick-serve restaurant diners, grade school students, as well as hospital patients. The company, founded in 1947, began as a small welding shop specializing in stainless steel fabrication. Carter-Hoffmann has grown to serve some of the world's leading hotels, resorts, chain restaurants and institutions to deliver their meals efficiently. Its products include banquet carts, fridge freezers, banquet support and Accufresh. It offers a complete line of heavy-duty welded aluminum proofers, heaters, cabinets and racks. Its product offering consists of heated and ambient carts for bulk pans, compartment trays, individual meal trays, and insulated trays. Carter-Hoffmann is located in Mundelein, Ill.

National Material, also known as NMLP, is one of the leading processors of stainless and carbon steel, aluminum and ferrous materials in the United States. Its steel group operates steel service centers that include National Material Company, National Material de Mexico, Interstate Steel Company and National Metal Resources. The company s steel centers perform slitting, pickling stamping, and computer-controlled, high-speed precision shearing and blanking procedures. National Material also provides design, fabrication, testing, thermal treatment, inventory management and quality assurance services. The company operates National Material Trading, which is and importer and marketer of basic pig iron. National Material has divisions in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China, Russia, as well as Europe. The company serves clients in the automotive, appliance, agriculture, construction and office furniture markets.