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Founded in 1982, Airgas Great Lakes is a distributor of various gases. It provides industrial, medical and specialty gases in addition to safety and welding products, tools and hardware, gas equipment and related goods. It offers a variety of gases, including acetylene, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, propane and alternate fuel gases. Its additional products include dry ice, process chemicals, refrigerants and abrasives. It operates through a network of suppliers, distributors, dealers and retailers. The company also provides various services that include products distribution, technical assistance, infrastructure management and logistics support services. The company has more than 600 branches and distribution centers. It has one of its regional headquarters located in Bedford, Ohio.

Brush Engineered Materials principal activity is to manufacture high-performance engineered materials. It serves the worldwide telecommunications and computer, optical media, automotive electronics, industrial components, aerospace, and defense and appliance markets. The company operates in two segments, the metal systems group and the microelectronics group. The metal systems group comprises of strip and bulk alloy primarily copper beryllium, beryllium products and engineered materials. The microelectronics group manufactures a variety of products, such as precious and nonprecious vapor deposition materials, other precious and nonprecious metal products, ceramics, electronic packages, powdered metals and circuitry. Metal systems typically account for more than 60 percent of revenues while microelectronics accounts for nearly 40 percent and other miscellaneous items account for less than 2 percent. Brush Engineered Materials is located in Cleveland.

The Austin Company offers architectural, engineering, design-build and construction management services. The Austin Company receives about 70 percent of its business through new construction projects. The company has worked on projects for the United States military, the postal service, Pfizer, Motorola, a host of TV stations and newspapers and Boeing.