Thompson Equipment Company Inc

Hoist & Crane Service Group, founded in 1976, specializes in the maintenance and fatigue management of overhead cranes. It serves a range of industrial markets, including paper, steel, petro-chemical, aerospace, automotive, marine, nuclear power, defense and offshore oil exploration. The company supplies and installs electrification conductor for the cranes. Hoist & Crane Service Group also designs and develops heavy crane fatigue assessment systems. Its Monitech Systems Division offers Diagnostic Data Link, which is an on-board crane sensory system for remote monitoring. It provides monthly inspection program called Constant Care and Data Snap system for instant analysis of immediate corrective action. In addition, the company offers site and system maintenance and sonic and borescope testing services. Hoist and Crane Service Group is a member of the American Petroleum Institute.

For over 20 years, Brandt Instruments Inc. has been a retailer of products and services for the industrial hygiene, safety, environmental and analytical laboratory markets. Based in Prairieville, La., it offers a number of products, such as airborne particle monitors, calibration gas/regulators, hot wire/vane anemometers as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) balancing instruments. The company also provides indoor air quality monitoring instruments, noise dosimeters and lead paint inspection instruments. In addition to products, Brandt Instruments Inc. renders application assistance, on-site training, consulting and technical support services.

Through a network of subsidiaries, John H. Carter Company provides a wide range of products, services and equipment, including process control systems and instrumentation, control valves, regulators, actuators, automated valves, pumps and filters. The subsidiaries of John H. Carter Company include Breard-Gardner, CML Equipment; ControlWorx; and McCurnin, Swan. Breard-Gardner and CML Equipment are manufacturers' representative organizations that specialize in the sales and service of industrial equipment and instrumentation. ControlWorx provides valve actuators, compressor controls, custom fabrication, design and drafting and field services. McCurnin, Swan offers pumps, mixers, grinders, heat exchangers, filters, strainers, pressure vessels, separators and clarifiers. John H. Carter Company has locations in Theodore, Ala., and Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles, West Monroe and Metairie, La.