New Jersey is still a good manufacturing state. On Monday, November 18, the New Jersey Business & Industry Association put manufacturing on display at the State House at its 7th Annual Made in New Jersey Day. Product samples also were distributed in NJBIA's popular "New Jersey Sampler Bag".

Governor James E. McGreevey, Commerce Commissioner William Watley, Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo, and dozens of state Senators and Assembly members were among the hundreds who checked out the displays and talked with the manufacturers.

"If it can be made, chances are that someone in New Jersey is making it," NJBIA President Joseph Gonzalez said. "From small family-owned businesses to large international companies, New Jersey is home to some of the most innovative and creative enterprises anywhere. These are the companies that keep our economy going and our people employed. Made in New Jersey Day is just one way we celebrate what they do."

Among this year's exhibitors were:

1. Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. of Elmwood Park, a brand-name manufacturer of napkins, tissues and toilet paper;
2. L'Oreal USA of Clark, a leading international cosmetics manufacturer;
3. Bende and Sons, Inc. of Passaic, which makes ribbons and braids for uniforms, including uniforms for the United States Military;
4. Rebco Inc. of Paterson, which has been manufacturing architectural aluminum products for more than 40 years. The company works with customers to individually design store fronts, windows, and building entrances;
5. Homasote Company of West Trenton, which compresses recycled newspapers to make Homasote, a type of particle board used primarily as a sound-deadening insulation in buildings and houses;
6. Kova Corporation of Tuckerton, which makes digital telephony recording equipment, such as those used by 9-1-1 call centers; and
7. Inverness Corporation of Fairlawn, which manufactures ear-piercing equipment and earrings. The safety features on its ear piercing system have earned Inverness 27 patents.

Exhibitors
Company	Product	Town
Bende & Sons, Inc. ConocoPhillips Bayway Refinery Driscoll Label, Inc. E.P. Henry Corporation Falstrom Company Flex Membrane Homasote Company INRANGE Technologies Corp Inverness Corporation JRM Industries, Inc. Kinetics Industries, Inc. Kova Corporation L'Oreal USA Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. One Cent Productions, Inc. Orbel Corporation Perma Pure LLC Rebco, Inc. Royal Aluminum Co., Inc. SPEX Certiprep, Inc State Tool Gear Co., Inc. The Trane Company Valero Refining Company-NJ Window Shapes, Inc.	Military uniform braids and ribbons Oil refining Pressure sensitive labels Concrete pavers Electronic enclosures and assemblies Commercial roofing systems and prod. Building products Electronic printed circuit boards Ear piercing products and earrings Labels Electrical power control systems Digital voice recorders Cosmetics Toilet paper, tissues, and napkins Juice products Penny stamping machine Precision components and ornaments Gas conditioning products Commercial doors and windows Replacement windows Chemical Standards Gears HVAC equipment Refined crude oil products Architectural shaped vinyl windows	Passaic Linden Fairfield Woodbury Passaic Hillside West Trenton Lumberton Fair Lawn Passaic Trenton Tuckerton Clark Elmwood Park Bordentown Fair Lawn Phillipsburg Toms River Paterson Newark Metuchen Newark Trenton Paulsboro Hillside

NJ Sampler Bag Items
Company	Product	Town
Annin & Co. B&G Foods, Inc. Bende & Sons, Inc. Brioschi, Inc. Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Driscoll Label, Inc. Flex Membrane International Homasote Company Inverness Corporation James Alexander Corp. JRM Industries, Inc. L. A. Dreyfus Company L'Oreal USA Marcal Paper Mills, Inc. Masterfoods USA, A Mars, Inc. Co. McCain Foods USA, Inc. Middlesex Water Company The Minute Maid Company Nabisco Inc./Div. of Kraft Foods New Jersey-American Water Co. Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Reckitt Benckiser Inc. Schering-Plough Corporation Skinner's Salted Nuts, Inc. Snapple Beverage Corporation Sorbent Products Co., Inc. (SPC) Stahl Soap Corporation State Tool Gear Co., Inc. T.F.H. Pub. & Nylabone Products Inc. Unilever Bestfoods Unit Pack Company Inc. Violet Packing Company	Flags Pollaner All Fruit Stars and stripes ribbon Antacid Arm & Hammer toothpaste Printed flag labels Flex FB roof membrane Homasote Board Earrings Sting and bite medicine Labels, fabric trim, ribbons Gum Hair gel Tissues and coupons M&Ms (plain, peanut and minis)-3 items Pizza coupons Bottled water Juice boxes Cookies Bottled water Spritzer Mop & Glo A&D Ointment Peanuts Snapple Industrial sorbent pads Soap Gears Nylabone keychains Hellmanns Mayonnaise Unit dose packets Pizza sauce	Roseland Parsippany Passaic Fairlawn Princeton Fairfield Hillside West Trenton Fair Lawn Blairstown Passaic Edison Clark Elmwood Park Hackettstown Lodi Iselin Hightstown Hanover Haddon Heights Bordentown Wayne Kenilworth Carlstadt North Brunswick Piscataway Rutherford Newark Neptune Englewood Cliffs Cedar Grove Williamstown

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