The Jason Brush Group, comprised of Osborn International, Sealeze and Atlanta Brush, is the world's largest manufacturer of industrial brushes, and JacksonLea is the world's largest producer of buffing wheels and buffing compounds.  Osborn International and JacksonLea together now have operations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, China, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, Romania, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and the U.K. There is virtually no market for finishing products throughout the world in which these businesses do not participate.

Both Osborn International in the brush business and JacksonLea in the buff and compound business have built their number one market positions on superior application engineering skills. Bob Weber, Vice President of Research and Development for JacksonLea (left), has pioneered internet solutions to solve customers' polishing problems; the user friendly results have reduced customer downtime and enhanced JacksonLea's market share.

In 2001, JacksonLea opened a new facility in Cincinnati, Ohio, which uses state-of-the-art equipment to produce its buffing compound product line.

Osborn International developed a fully-operational quarter-scale test rack as part of a major project to penetrate the furnace roll market.

Components Group Covers Metal Forming Market

The operating units in Jason's Components Group are each experts in one type of metal forming process: Advance Wire in wire forming; Metalex in expanding metal; and Assembled Products in precision stamping and semi-automatic assembly. Each operation extends these skills to combine secondary operations with primary forming processes, thereby reducing customer costs and lead times. The combination of these skills gives Jason one of the broadest product offerings among U.S. metal formed component suppliers. Jason supplements its U.S. component production with stamped and assembled products from its operation in Shanghai, China.

The Company uses a modern 300-ton Minster press with automatic coil feed equipment to expand the scope of its capabilities in precision stamping.

Key to the growth of the Assembled Products Group has been the ability of Jason's engineers to re-design the customer's product and to substantially reduce costs by integrating the stamping and semi-automatic assembly processes.

Metalex uses new equipment, which is capable of generating micro mesh with openings as small as .005 inches.