Founded in 1920 by three Central New York entrepreneurs, Higgins Supply Company has remained rooted in McGraw while building a manufacturing business known for orthopedic hardware and apparel boning. Its C&H Plastics division, established in 1970 and acquired by Higgins in 2019, is a second-generation business whose founding families remain involved. The two operations now support customers from design through production in Central New York.
Queen City PolymersStarted by 24-year-old James Powers Jr. on the porch of his Cincinnati home in the early 1980s, Queen City Polymers has grown into a family-built plastics manufacturer and distributor serving North America since 1980. Headquartered in Cincinnati with plants in Dayton, Pharr and Reynosa, QCP supplies industrial plastic stock and turns it into custom-cut, machined and fabricated parts, with 17 CNC routers and six CNC panel saws supporting high-volume work. Its reach has expanded, but the company says its front-porch loyalty to customers and employees remains central to how it operates.WEST CHESTER, OH
Harvy Surgical Supply CorporationA fifth-generation family business, Harvy Surgical Supply Corporation has spent 117 years making its mark as a Flushing, New York manufacturer. The company is best known for producing walking canes for collectors, walking enthusiasts, and DME distributors, while its 2012 merger with Concord Gentlemen’s Accessories added a handcrafted accessories tradition to its American operation.FLUSHING, NY
C.R. Daniels, IncC.R. Daniels, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of sewn, plastic, metal, and fabric goods, with roots in a New York City sail loft acquired by the Trumpbour brothers in 1920. The family continues to own controlling stock, and the company operates manufacturing facilities in Ellicott City, Maryland, and Rutledge, Tennessee. Its long-running Dandux line includes material-handling products, and the company also makes specialized fabricated products for the aerospace industry.ELLICOTT CITY, MD
G-S Supplies, IncG-S Supplies traces its Rochester roots to 1916, when Julius Simon and Harry Germanow founded the business later known as Germanow-Simon Machine Company. Now a third-generation family-owned, woman-owned, SAM-registered company, it is recognized as the originator and developer of plastic watch crystals, with custom manufacturing for specialized glass and plastic components. Its Rochester operation also produces G-S Hypo Cement, the precision adhesive the company has made since the 1930s.ROCHESTER, NY