Specialties Unlimited

Since 1949, The Harva Company Inc. has been producing precision-machined close tolerance parts. It is located in Schoharie, N.Y. and serves its customers from the design and prototype stage through production. The company has expertise in secondary, as well as specialty plastic fabrication that includes CNC machining, routing, drilling, milling, assembly, adhesive bonding, polishing, close tolerance sawing, turning and boring. It is designated as a certified supplier for numerous companies, such as the IBM Corporation, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Eastman Kodak Company.

Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics offers advanced-technology polymer products for several industrial applications. It provides medical-grade silicones, fluid handling hoses and tubes, and machined and molded fluoropolymers. The company also offers release liners foam seals, precision bearings, gaskets, membranes and bonding tapes for the aerospace industry. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics markets products from brands, such as, Tygon, Sil-Med, Chemfluor, Zitex, Thermalbond, Norton, CHR, CHEMFAB, Normount, Furon, Rulon, Norglide, Chemware, Sanitech, PureFit and Pharmed. It offers high-performance polymer processing solutions. The company s fluid systems business serves the health care, general industrial, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, transportation, and food and beverage markets. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is a business unit of Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics.

Quadra-Tek, formerly known as Arlington Industries, is a precision molder of thermosets and thermoplastics for a wide range of industries. It also provides secondary and subassembly capabilities, including inserting, drilling, testing, assemblies, bonding, blasting, tumbling, tapping, milling and overmolding. Its client list includes Baxter, Bayer, Corning, Goodrich, Digital Equipment, General Electric, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Honeywell, Northrop, Texas Instruments and Textron. The company was established in 1968 and is located in Arlington, Vt.