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If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. With Autodesk, you have the power to make anything.

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Lydall creates a cleaner, safer and quieter world as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of specialty filtration solutions with highly engineered applications. Founded and headquartered in Manchester, Connecticut – an early American industrial hub for paper, lumber and textile production – Lydall has a truly global footprint, with more than 3,000 employees around the world and facilities across the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Partnering with our customers, we develop bespoke, high-performing and efficient solutions that are adaptable and scalable to meet their needs. We draw on our 150-year history of technical innovation, our deeply ingrained relationships with suppliers, and our state-of-the-art equipment to create critical and life-saving products.

Lydall is a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, trading under the ticker “LDL.”

3M applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily. With $32 billion in sales, the company’s 96,000 employees connect with customers all around the world. 3M invests about 6 percent of its sales into research and development – an investment that helps produce more than 3,000 patents each year. 3M owns 51 technology platforms, which range from adhesives and abrasives, to ceramics and nanotechnology. 3M's more than 8,500 scientists around the world share and combine these technologies across all its businesses to create a steady stream of unique products for customers.

3M is helping the world respond to COVID-19 at a time when the pandemic has created unprecedented demand for critical products. During this global crisis, the safety of our employees and the public, including health care workers and first responders fighting COVID-19, is our highest priority. We are making more respirators than ever before. Since January, we have doubled global N95 respirator production and are on track to increase our capacity to produce N95 and other respirators to 2 billion per year globally by the end of 2020.

Honeywell has been innovating for more than 100 years and we believe what happens tomorrow is determined by what we do today. Our teams are designing and delivering technology solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings; worker safety products and performance materials globally.  Our technologies help everything from aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. 

Under Armour, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a leading inventor, marketer and distributor of branded athletic performance apparel, footwear and accessories. Powered by one of the world's largest digitally connected fitness and wellness communities, Under Armour's innovative products and experiences are designed to help advance human performance, making all athletes better.

With over 1,400 lawyers in 30 offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is a fully integrated global law firm that provides clients with connected legal advice, wherever and whenever they need it. The firm is known for its relationship-driven, collaborative culture, diverse legal experience and industry-shaping innovation and offers clients one of the most active M&A, real estate, financial services, litigation and corporate risk practices in the world.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) works for the success of the more than 12.8 million men and women who make things in America, representing 14,000 member companies—from small businesses to global leaders—in every industrial sector. The NAM’s work is centered around four values that make our industry strong and America exceptional: free enterprise, competitiveness, individual liberty and equal opportunity. These pillars guide what the association does every day, whether it’s standing up for manufacturers in Washington, DC, inspiring the next generation of manufacturing talent, providing news and intelligence about the industry or helping members innovate and advance.