Western Forest Products Inc. company harvests softwood timber (mostly from government-owned land), manages woodlands, and produces lumber, logs, and wood chips from about a dozen mills and plants. Lumber accounts for about three-fourths of total sales; specialty products include oversized lumber and western red cedar products. Western Forest Products primarily operates in coastal British Columbia. Its products are sold in more than 30 countries, primarily Canada, Asia, and the US. Subsidiary MacMillan Bloedel Kabushiki Kaisha sells to wholesale and manufacturing customers in Japan.

Etex Group provides the tools of the contractor's trade. The company manufactures building materials for use in constructing roofs, floors, and walls in the Americas and Europe. Its roofing products include concrete and clay tiles; natural, resin, and fiber cement slates; and metal profiled sheets. Etex also produces flat boards used for a variety of purposes, such as sidings, passive fire protection, high-temperature insulation, and plasterboard. Etex operates through more than 90 subsidiaries in more than 40 countries. Europe accounts for about half of the company's revenues.

Kathabar Dehumidification Systems engineers and manufactures liquid and dry desiccant systems for dehumidification and energy recovery applications. Any manufacturing or processing operation that is humidity-, temperature-, or microorganism-sensitive can be improved in reliability, economy, and efficiency with a Kathabar system.

Nuprecon. Considered one of the largest companies in its industry, Nuprecon specializes in demolition services, including total building and targeted demolition, and plant dismantlement. Nuprecon also offers environmental remediation and abatement, construction-related debris and hazardous waste recycling, and concrete sawing and drilling. Serving various industries, the company's projects have included factories, office and retail buildings, hotels, hospitals, and government buildings. Nuprecon, which is majority-owned by private equity firm Evergreen Pacific Partners, merged with competitor CST Environmental in 2008.

Barnes Gromatzky Kosarek Architects provides architectural design services that include needs analysis and programming; masterplan development; new construction, renovation, addition, and interior design; and project management. The firm specializes in civic, university, school, and government building projects, though it also designs commercial and residential buildings. Clients include The University of Texas, Texas A&M University, the City of Austin, and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by principals Jay Barnes, Carl Gromatzky, and Thomas Kosarek.

The Appalachian Hardwood Lumber Company processes and distributes kiln-dried hardwoods -- such as red oak, hard maple, cherry, and poplar -- to cabinet makers and manufacturers, millwork companies, pattern shops, and retail lumber yards. The company harvests the lumber from trees in the northeastern US and delivers its products throughout the country. It uses its own fleet of trucks within a six-state delivery area and also uses common carriers to ship to other regions. The Appalachian Hardwood Lumber Company also exports wood to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The Appalachian Hardwood Lumber Company was founded in 1911.

Ciments Francais is owned by Italian cement group Italcementi. Ciments Francais expects business to be rock solid, as it has since 1881. Ciments Francais is one of the largest cement producers in France, but it also has operations in about a dozen countries across Europe, Asia, and North America. Ciments Francais' annual production includes some 50 million tons of cement (its largest segment), in addition to aggregates and ready-mixed concrete. Ciments Francais operates more than 40 cement plants, some 90 aggregate quarries, and more than 350 ready-mixed concrete plants. It owns more than 50% of Egypt's Suez Cement.

Cavco Industries, Inc. engages in the design, production, wholesale, and retail marketing of manufactured homes. It produces single-section and multi-section homes, park model homes, vacation cabins, and HUD code manufactured homes, as well as commercial structures for various purposes, including offices and showrooms. The company sells its manufactured homes through a network of retailers in the continental United States under Cavco Homes and Fleetwood Homes brand names. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

EnGlobe (formerly Environmental Management Solutions) spans a good part of the globe in providing environmental consulting, environmental contracting, remediation, and waste management services (in Canada, France, the UK, and the US). The company manages nine soil-treatment facilities and eight composting centers and provides testing and compliance services for storage tanks. It additionally operates landfills for non-hazardous industrial waste, as well as transfer stations where industrial waste is treated and recycled or sent to a landfill. Founded in 1995 by former CEO Frank D'Addario, EnGlobe has primarily grown through acquisitions.

Roy Anderson Corp. placed its bets on the casino and hospitality industry and won a position among the largest construction companies in the US. The commercial, industrial, and institutional contractor also ranks among the leading builders of sports facilities. Its projects include churches, hospitals, medical centers, schools, prisons, manufacturing plants, condos, and government buildings. Notable projects include the Grand Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi, and Harrah's Louisiana Downs in Shreveport. The family-owned company also has another Mississippi-based construction company, Harrell Contracting Group. Chairman Roy Anderson Jr. founded the company in 1955; it is now run by Roy Anderson III.

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