Peninsula Plastics Ltd. continues to expand, adding new products, new staff, and possibly new markets, despite the pandemic. This family firm, based in Fort Erie, Ontario, offers custom injection moulding while a separate division manufactures proprietary plastic parts. It has approximately 130 workers at present up from roughly ninety this time last year.
Hightowers Petroleum Company (HPC) has a presence in every state and is currently the largest African-American-owned downstream petroleum wholesale marketer operating in the U.S. This family-owned business sells gasoline and diesel to automotive OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers), grocery chains, the steel industry, utilities and other Fortune 500 companies, and it takes pride in its comprehensive service.
The Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) has a simple message: oil and natural gas are good for Texas and the United States in general. Oil and natural gas drive the Texas economy, generating billions of dollars in annual royalties and taxes while providing high-paying jobs to nearly 350,000 people. Surging oil and natural gas production has enhanced domestic security by making the U.S. less dependent on foreign fuel sources, while industry-funded innovations have had a positive environmental impact.
In 2019, ShalePro Energy Services made Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America. It was the third time the Houston, Pennsylvania-based company was included on this prestigious list. The magazine also cited ShalePro as the fastest-growing energy company in Pennsylvania and the twenty-fifth-fastest-growing energy company in the United States. In addition to the company’s headquarters in the center of the Marcellus/Utica Shale Basin, it has seven other locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Virginia to serve customers across the region.
American Equipment & Fabricating Corp. (AE&F), a full-service foundation-equipment firm, marks its 35th anniversary this year. Based in East Providence, Rhode Island, with a branch in Wills Point, Texas, the company owes its success to a simple formula
In 2020, Comer Industries, Inc. will mark its fiftieth anniversary. It is a huge achievement, given the sometimes-volatile nature of the manufacturing sector, but the company has no intention of resting on its laurels. Instead, it plans to continue growing its market reach, product lineup, and client base of global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Among other initiatives, the company is looking to add a new level of technology to its existing products.
For over 90 years, TWG Inc., a Dover company, has been a global leader in manufacturing winches, hoists, slewing ring bearings, swing drives, electronic monitoring systems, and more – bringing industry the power to push, pull, lift, rotate, and control it all electronically.
Founded in 1986, TXAM Pumps sells all manner of products related to chemical injection pumping – except for the chemicals themselves. Based in Houston but with a presence in multiple states, the firm designs and manufactures electric, pneumatic, solar, circulation, beam, metering, and woodpecker pumps. Regardless of the type or model, most of its pumps are intended for chemical injection by clients in oil and gas and other markets.