Kadco USA Inc

Established in 1988 as a joint venture between NSK and Torrington Ingersoll-Rand, NSK Steering Systems America, or NSSA, is a wholly owned subsidiary of NSK Americas and has come from modest beginnings as a 50 person employer into a worldwide alliance with the engineering and manufacturing expertise to provide advanced steering column solutions worldwide. As one of southern Vermont s largest manufacturing employers with approximately 500 team members, the company received its QS-9000 quality system certification, the start up of its first contract with the Ford Motor Company and the production of nearly 2 million steering columns in 1999. The company is one of the world s largest manufacturers of electrically assisted power steering systems that are used primarily in Japan and Europe. NSK Steering Systems America is headquartered in Bennington, Vt.

Founded in 1906, DICO Products Corporation is a manufacturing company that provides a range of buffing products for brightening jewelry and silverware items and cleaning ornamental hardware products. It also offers products for restoring antiques and motor vehicles. The company provides compound tubes, flanges, bonnets, mitts, sanding and polishing accessories and, compounding and polishing pads. In addition, DICO Products Corporation offers aprons, abrasive cleaners, surface conditioning discs, flap brush wheels and adapters.