Uster Technologies

Founded in 1950, Kelsan was one of the first janitorial and sanitary supply distributors in eastern Tennessee. The company is part of the Keller Group and offers one of the region s largest selections of sanitary maintenance-related products. When Kelsan acquired Industrial Paper, the company added packaging supplies to its offerings. The company s product line includes floor maintenance equipment, paper supplies, can liners, floor cleaners and waxes, disinfectants, degreasers, matting, carpet cleaners and protectors, wall cleaners, brooms, wax applicators, brushes, deodorants, food service disposables and trash receptacles. The packaging supplies include shrink-wrap, tapes, foam and bubble, strapping and paper. Kelsan is located in Knoxville, Tenn.

Established in 1989, Axis Fabrication & Machine is a sheet metal fabrication company, headquartered in Rockford, Tenn. The company has a 34,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, and employs more than 30 personnel. It uses state-of-the-art equipment, including the Trumpf L3030 4,000 watt laser, with a working surface of 60- by 120-inch, that can cut upto 1-inch thick steel, Mazak computerized numerical control machining and turning centers and CNC milling machines. Its equipment inventory also includes manual milling machines, manual lathes, a Charmilles wire electrical discharge machine and form 20 ZNC Diesinking EDM. It also employs Moore 3 jig grinders, Okamoto automatic surface grinders with DRO six by eighteen travel and twelve by twenty four travel, Charmilles surface grinders with DRO six by eighteen travel and Lucifer red devil heat treating furnaces. The company uses Solidworks as its primary computer aided design system.