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The Eaton Corporation is a diversified industrial manufacturer with annual sales of more than $11 billion. The company is a worldwide leader in electrical systems and components for power quality, distribution and control; fluid power systems and services for industrial, mobile and aircraft equipment; and automotive engine air management systems, powertrain solutions and specialty controls for performance, fuel economy and safety. It has nearly 60,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 125 countries. Once known as a vehicle components supplier, the company has diversified to include an industrial and commercial focus. Eaton's businesses comprise a number of segments that include electrical, fluid power, truck and automotive. The company is a leader in electrical control, power distribution, uninterruptible power systems and industrial automation products and services. Alexander M. Cutler has been the chief executive officer of Eaton for more than six years. He has been with the capital goods firm for over 31 years. Cutler earned a BA from Yale, and a MBA from Dartmouth College. Eaton Corporation is headquartered in Cleveland.

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.

Established in 1928, The Lubrizol Corporation had revenues of more than $4 billion for 2005. Lubrizol acquired Noveon International in 2004. A specialty chemical company, Lubrizol produces and supplies technologies that improve the quality and performance of its customers' products in the worldwide transportation, industrial and consumer markets. Its technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, other transportation-related fluids and industrial lubricants, as well as fuel additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. The company makes ingredients and additives for personal care products and pharmaceuticals; specialty materials, which includes plastics technology; performance coatings in the form of specialty resins and additives; and additives for the food and beverage industry. The company has approximately 7,500 employees worldwide. With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, The Lubrizol Corporation owns and operates manufacturing facilities in nearly 20 countries, as well as sales and technical offices throughout the world.