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Hagemeyer North America is a business-to-business distributor that operates more than 300 locations and serves over 100,000 customers throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. It provides inspection, repair, maintenance, cleaning and rental services for respiratory, fire and fall protection equipment, safety showers and eyewash stations. The company serves the industrial, paper, automotive, petrochemical, aviation, safety and electrical markets. Hagemeyer North America offers products from the Aearo, 3M, Brady, Cardiac Science, DuPont, Fluke, Norton, Philips and Rustoleum brands. Its technical service group installs, maintains, inspects and repairs fire extinguishers and gas detection systems. The company also provides blade cutting, welding and belting services. Its customers include home builders, residential electrical and datacom contractors, lighting consultants and utility companies. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hagemeyer N.V., which offers maintenance, repair and operation products for electrical contractors and industrial users throughout Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Hagemeyer North America is headquartered in Charleston, S.C.

Heinkel Filtering Systems, a division of the Heinkel Group, manufactures filtering systems, as well as industrial and water filtration systems and filtration equipment. The company provides equipment for a variety of industries, such as pharmaceutical, chemical, food and mining. Its product lines include: HF-inverting filter centrifuges, GFT-peeler centrifuges, TZT centrifuge dryers and Bolz-Summix conical mixer dryers. Heinkel also provides service, support, automation design and parts. The Heinkel Group, based in Germany, is a global leader in the supply of process solutions for filtration and drying to the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Operational for more than 80 years, John Crane designs and manufactures a range of engineered and mechanical seals. It serves the oil and gas, pulp and paper, food and beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, pipeline and mining industries. The company features sealing support systems, power transmission couplings and lubrication products. It provides products from various brands, including Sealol, Safematic, Flexibox, Metastream, Powerstream, Lemco and Performance Plus. John Crane offers parts cleaning, system inspection, component replacement, failure analysis and asset management support services. It supplies engineering tools that assist in the selection, application and design of sealing systems. The company operates the John Crane Academy, which provides technical training to its employees. It operates more than 20 manufacturing facilities and employs over 6,000 people in over 50 countries. John Crane maintains a location in Swedesboro, N.J. The company is a subsidiary of Smiths Group.