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Parker Hannifin Corporation, with annual sales exceeding $6 billion, is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies, providing systematic, precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company's products are vital to virtually everything that moves or requires control, including the manufacture and processing of raw materials, durable goods, infrastructure development and all forms of transport. Parker products are utilized in the extraction of oil from submarine oil sources. The company s products are also found in machines that power drive-though car washes. Parker-Hannifin serves 1,200 markets through 8,600 distributors in nearly 50 countries. Donald E. Washkewicz has been the chief executive officer of Parker-Hannifin for more than five years. He has been with the capital goods company for over 33 years. Washkewicz earned a BME from Cleveland State University, and a MBA from Case Western Reserve. The company has more than 250 plants with 50,000-plus employees. Parker Hannifin maintains a location in Cleveland and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

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.