AIAC’S 2026 NEW YEAR’S GREETING CELEBRATES THE NATURAL WORLD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, NY – December 31, 2025 –American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) proudly announces the launch of its unique 2026 New Year’s Video Greeting, entitled, Paradise Found, found on its website and on social media. The vivid video displays the grandeur of the natural world and distant galaxies, along with the values of stewardship, exploration, and the responsibility that comes with economic and technological progress. AIAC Chairman and Explorers Club Trustee and Poet Laureate, L. M. Levie, composed the lyrics, musical score and orchestration, and the graphic design and videography was created by AIAC Vice President I. Carro-Toro.
Mr. Levie issued the following statement:
"The journey of this video started with a commemorative poem I composed for the 121st Explorers Club Annual Dinner—an inspirational evening honoring mankind's timeless drive to discover, admire and preserve the majesty surrounding us, from our own Earth to the cosmos beyond. Those verses expressed a conviction close to my heart: that the privilege of exploration comes hand in hand with the duty to safeguard that which we encounter. Setting the poem to music with orchestration allowed the words to soar, and Ms. Carro-Toro's magnificent visual storytelling elevated the work into its final aesthetic form. Her evocative depictions of our planet's natural splendor and the boundless mystery of distant galaxies transformed a melodic work into an immersive journey—one that honors both the treasures we must protect and the uncharted territories that beckon us forward.
At AIAC, the spirit of discovery runs through everything we do, as we enable the revolution in sustainable electric vehicles, marine and submarine mobility, aviation, space travel, satellite communication, power generation, packaging, infrastructure, large scale public project construction, agriculture, and medicine. The wide array of components, materials, and equipment we reliably manufacture literally makes the modern world function. We are thrilled to pioneer the enlightened transformation of the industrial enterprise and the expansion of human knowledge and potential. Our partnership with The Explorers Club—a storied institution that has united trailblazing scientists, adventurers, and visionaries since 1904—reflects our mutual dedication to nurturing curiosity and innovation.
This New Year's video greeting represents far more than a festive salutation - it is a tribute to the explorer's spirit in every dimension. Our hope is that it moves viewers to adopt that same pioneering outlook—to venture toward new horizons, whether amid the celestial unknown, across the remarkable landscapes of our world, or right in their own neighborhoods. May we all work to preserve the paradise we have while daring to seek new ones beyond."
The lyrics for Paradise Found, published as a poem in the April 26, 2025 Explorers Club Annual Dinner Program, is reprinted here:
About American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing and distribution sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia-New Zealand. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, Ahlstrom, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, food, confectionary, beverage, civil engineering and infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, education, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial and consumer products and serve as critical suppliers for the construction of major airports, schools, hospitals, performing arts and sports centers, offices and hotels throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. AIAC is a leading manufacturer of building, street, and highway signage in Europe, and a distributor of electrical products throughout France.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005 and has produced over 10,000 unique components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in North America. A leader in ultra-high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies produce 2,200 fan blades for each jet engine produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell.
AIAC companies actively support exploration into outer space, manufacturing critical components for launching and propelling spacecraft and satellites. AIAC customers in this sector include NASA, the European Space Agency, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Boeing. research. AIAC affiliate, Champlain Cable Corporation, supported the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space missions with high performance wire and cable. AIAC companies also lead in the design and manufacture of undersea umbilical cables for worldwide oceanographic research.
AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chrysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Nissan. In connection with its kraft paper manufacturing interests in Canada and the US, AIAC controls and sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary.
AIAC affiliate, Metallwarenfabrik Gemmingen GmbH, located in Germany, designs, manufactures and distributes high performance, emergency portable power generators utilized in global conflict zones and during natural disasters.
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About AIAC Philanthropy
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, exploration, and the performing arts.
The exploration-focused nonprofit organizations which they actively support include the Explorers Club, the National Geographic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Space Society, and the United States Space Foundation.
AIAC's other beneficiaries include the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation Inc., the Asia Society, the Atlantic Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates Philanthropy Partners, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Carter Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, the Institut Française des Relations Internationales, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Crisis Group, the International Rescue Committee, the Japan Society, the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the Sierra Club, the Trilateral Commission, and the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.
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https://www.aiac.com/our-values
About The Explorers Club
Founded in 1904, The Explorers Club is a prestigious international multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Based at its historic headquarters in New York City, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide for over a century.
The Club's membership includes many of history's most renowned explorers and scientists, from polar explorers Robert Peary and Roald Amundsen to oceanic pioneers Jacques Cousteau and Robert Ballard, from aviation legends Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart to space pioneers like Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Jim Lovell. The Club continues to support cutting-edge exploration in every realm—from the deepest ocean trenches to the highest peaks, from archaeological discoveries to space missions.
The Explorers Club is renowned for its rigorous standards of membership, requiring nominees to have made significant contributions to exploration or the sciences that advance our understanding of the world. The Club's Board of Trustees, Legacy Society, and various committees work to preserve the Club's mission while fostering new generations of explorers through grants, expeditions, and educational programs.
The Club's famous annual dinner, featuring exotic cuisine and presentations by leading explorers, has become legendary in New York society. More importantly, The Explorers Club continues to fund and support expeditions that push the boundaries of human knowledge, from climate research in Antarctica to biodiversity studies in remote rainforests to preparations for future Mars missions.
AIAC Chairman L. M. Levie serves as Member of its Board of Trustees and as Poet Laureate and Member of its Legacy Society. As Poet Laureate, Mr. Levie contributes to the Club's cultural mission by capturing the spirit of exploration through verse, honoring both historical achievements and contemporary discoveries that continue to expand the frontiers of human knowledge and experience.
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Media Contact:
Isabel Carro-Toro, Vice President
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
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