Illinois-based Woodward serves global power generation, transportation, process industries and aerospace markets from locations worldwide. Woodward is the world's largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control solutions for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation, and process automation equipment.

1) What are your company's products/services?

Energy control solutions for engines including LPG fuel system components and advanced electronic systems that provide integrated control for gas-fueled applications.

2) Give a brief history of your company's involvement in the materials handling industry.
We provide quality aftermarket replacements for Impco-type components and highly engineered systems for OEMs and packagers. We have 135 years of providing engine controls to industrial markets, including materials handling applications.

3) What is your company's current position in the regional market? How about globally?
Woodward is headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, and serves global power generation, transportation, process industries, and aerospace markets from locations worldwide. Visit our website at www.woodward.com.

4) What makes your company outstanding in its market ?
A global organisation, infrastructure and commitment towards energy control technologies that are able to deliver total systems solutions for power equipment applications.

5) Tell us your company's future plans.
We will continue to apply our energy control technologies to develop and produce components that we integrate into systems to the benefit of OEM customers worldwide. With a comprehensive technology portfolio, we can meet market challenges such as reducing emissions, improving efficiencies and reducing costs.

Woodward will introduce its Tier-III, next generation control system for emissions-certified mobile engines this year. The system is called MI-07 and it provides a fully integrated, engine control solution with drive-by-wire engine control and CAN communications. MI-07 will meet or exceed 2007 emissions standards for Large Spark-Ignited (LSI) engines as established by the US Environmental Protection Agency and will also comply with 2008 Japanese emissions regulations.