Canton DPW

Draper Knitting Company is a textile mill located in Canton, Mass. It produces various types of fabric formation, including high pile sliver knitting, conventional circular knitting and nonwoven stitchbonding products. The company s client list includes Patagonia, L.L. Bean, Simpson, Vanity Fair and Wooster. It has a more than 120,000 square-foot manufacturing facility that includes a computer-aided design studio, a dye house, finishing department and knitting machines. The company s fabrics are used in a variety of products, including paint rollers, buffing pads, performance clothing and footwear liners, gloves and air filtration filters. Draper Knitting Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Draper Brothers Company.

NEI is a developer of network security and storage appliances, management systems and services to ease deployment, enhance manageability and increase security of mission critical business applications. The company offers its partners a streamlined process for appliance engineering, manufacturing and channel, logistics and technical support programs. NEI has developed a family of security appliances sold through value added resellers as the NS Series. Its server appliance products are an option for network equipment providers and independent software vendors. The company s business partners include BorderWare, IntelliReach, PostX, Network Intelligence and Microsoft. NEI is headquartered in Canton, Mass., and was established in 1997.

Independent Pipe and Supply, headquartered in Canton, Mass., is one of the largest family-owned industrial pipes, valves and fittings houses in New England. The company represents a number of suppliers and provides an extensive product range of pipes, strainers, backflow preventers, steam traps, commercial equipment, valves, instrumentation, and fittings and flanges. The company s products also cover the areas of fire protection and specialties, such as gaskets, expansion joints, and pipe tools and machines. Additionally, it offers advanced computerized inventory and search technology from the home page of its Web site. Independent Pipe & Supply maintains long-term relationships with customers, vendors and employees. The company s distribution facility is based in Canton and it has branches in five states with a staff of more than 100 employees.