ARC Competitors

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. Guided by our purpose—“Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow”—we help customers solve complex challenges through expertise in electromechanical systems, filtration, fluid and gas handling, hydraulics, pneumatics, and process control across industrial, mobile, aerospace, and other critical markets. With operations in 43 countries, a distribution network reaching 10,000+ locations, 3,000+ ParkerStore locations, and customers in 104 countries, Parker partners globally to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency.

With more than 120 operations and 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, forgings, and clad products for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

In the world of materials, carbon fiber has emerged as the ultimate team player, one that works miracles in reinforcing other materials and lifting them to new levels of performance. At ZOLTEK, we view our role in a similar light. Our objective as a company is to lead the commercialization of carbon fiber as a primary composite building material. It is our goal to help others achieve new levels of performance across a range of products. Carbon fiber reinforced composites are remarkable in their performance characteristics and properties that include high strength, low weight, high stiffness, corrosion resistance, heat resistance, and electrical conductivity. Another important characteristic of carbon fiber is its versatility. Carbon fiber has the ability to work with an assortment of different materials, including other fibers, plastics, metals, wood, and concrete. As a result of this versatility, it is impossible to postulate all of the potential uses of carbon fiber in maximizing performance and lowering life-cycle costs across a range of consumer and industrial products, and across all types of construction. ZOLTEK has become the worldwide leader in rated capacity for producing carbon fiber by making low-cost, high performance carbon fiber through a proprietary continuous carbonization process. Using this knowledge, it is well within our power to truly open the floodgates of demand across a variety of industries.