Benson's International Systems

Charles Leonard offers more than 1,000 products that are used daily in offices, schools and homes. The second-generation family business has operated for more than 60 years. It provides staplers, paperclips, scissors, clipboards, rulers, tape dispensers and hole punchers for commercial office customers. Charles Leonard supplies schools with pencil sharpeners, compasses, erasers, stamp pads and glue sticks. The company s Creative Arts line features colored pencils, markers paintbrushes, pipe cleaners and chalk for crafts. It also sells thumb tacks, binder clips, protractors, rubber bands, push pins and fasteners for retail outlets. It was established in 1946 and maintains a location in Hauppauge, N.Y.

ABET provides a variety of surfacing solutions, such as decorative surfaces, floors and walls; exterior cladding; countertops; self supporting panels; custom/digital images; and Green products. The company offers nearly 200 solid colors of high-pressure laminate, one of the largest standard collections in North America. It also manufactures metals, wood grains, digital and silk-screened designs. Every day, more than 10 soaking machines produce nearly 270 tons of semiprocessed materials for print HPL. Daily output for HPL and continuous folden laminate comes to approximately 27,000 square miles. Every year, more than 30 million samples of HPL and folden laminate are produced and shipped. Since the 1960s, the silk-screen printing laboratory has seen the involvement of designers that have created nearly 580 original patterns, resulting in more than 2,655 varieties of color and finishing. During the years, some 10,000 color and texture variants have been produced to customer order. ABET is located in Englewood, N.J.