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ReachIn Technologies produce integrated haptic and graphic systems. They make display systems and produce the haptic and graphic API Magma.
http://www.reachin.se/

Haptics-e is an electronic journal for haptics research.
http://www.haptics-e.org/

Immersion Corporation's Force Feedback systems. Immersion makes the haptic mouse, high quality haptic joysticks and a haptic laparoscopic surgery simulation device.
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http://www.immersion.com/

The ACSys VE lab in Australia does research into virtual environments and into haptics and co-located haptic and graphics, particularly for mining applications.
http://acsys.anu.edu.au/virtual.html

From Sci.virtual worlds newsgroup.
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/faq.html

The MIT Touchlab aims to understand human haptics, develop machine haptics, and enhance human-machine interactions in virtual reality systems.
http://touchlab.mit.edu/

Millersville are doing research into using haptics in the medicine.
http://cs.millersville.edu/~webster/haptics/

Offers devices for high-end applications and research, as well as custom solutions for the industry.
http://www.forcedimension.com

McGill Center for Intelligent Machines Haptics Laboratory works on the engineering and design of interfaces that use touch during interaction with information systems.
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~haptic/

A manufacturer and supplier of the HapticsMASTER, a high-performance interface.
http://www.fcs-robotics.com

Doctoral research paper looking into the way our spatial cognition, the way we process and negotiate space, is mediated by touch.
http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/haptics

Specializes in haptics applications for medical, oil/gas, automotive, and mass market fields.
http://www.novint.com

Develops and commercializes force-feedback (haptic) computer devices for Virtual Reality.
http://www.haption.com

The haptics community web pages have a good selection of research papers, particularly on hardware. The page does not seem to be maintained however.
http://haptic.mech.northwestern.edu/

Manufacturers of robotic and mechatronic systems including high quality haptic devices
http://www.quanser.com