When customers have to go to several different companies for different stages of product manufacturing it can sometimes be a lot of hassle, would it not just make sense to have all the facilities under one roof? That is exactly what Cooper Brown Enterprises (CBE) thought and took the companies BG Engineering, NiTEC, Pentag Gears and Spire Laboratories under one roof, and rebranded as CBE+, with individual divisions rebranded as CBE+ Precision; CBE+ Electroless Nickel, CBE+ Gears, CBE+ Beam Pumps and CBE+ Laboratories.