Central Manufacturing Co

Union Iron Works, established in 1947, provides bulk handling materials for various process industries. The company has several divisions, including bucket elevators, distributors, conveyors and dust collectors. Its product line includes trusses and towers, screw and belt conveyors, galvanized walkways, handrails, grain distributors, and tunnels and probes. The company also provides a wide range of temporary and portable storage systems, which have modular designs and preassembled panels. Its barge spouts have various features, including tilt and rotation mechanisms, remote control, telescoping, and gravity dust suppression. Union Iron Works, located in Decatur, Ill., has a staff of trained technicians, providing installation and service of various material handling products and systems.

PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler, with operations in the United States, central Europe and the Caribbean. The company manufactures, distributes and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in 19 U.S. locations, as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. In total, the company serves a population of more than 122 million people. PepsiCo holds a 41.1 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. PepsiAmericas is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PAS. The company is based in Minneapolis, and it has an additional location in Morton, Ill.