Orleans Homebuilders (OHB) prefers the City of Brotherly Love to The Big Easy. OHB builds communities of single-family homes, condos, and townhomes for first-time and move-up buyers, luxury homebuyers, empty nesters, and active adult homebuyers. Prices range from $165,000 to more than $2.3 million, depending on the region. OHB operates mainly in the Philadelphia metro area, New Jersey, New York, the Carolinas, and Virginia. It is also active in Orlando and Chicago. OHB also offers mortgage services, which approximately three-fourths of its buyers utilize. Hit hard by the US housing downturn, OHB filed for Chapter 11 protection in early 2010, seeking to restructure its debts.

Civil and environmental engineering firm Bryan A. Stirrat & Associates (BAS) specializes in municipal solid waste and hazardous waste management. The company helps customers with landfill siting and design; it also works on permitting and planning of landfill expansions and provides construction and operations support. Hazardous waste projects have included assessment and remediation on sites throughout the western US. The company operates from offices in California and Arizona. Leading consulting engineering firm Tetra Tech acquired BAS in 2009.

CentiMark hit the nail right on the head when it got into the roofing business. The company is one of the largest commercial and industrial roofing contractors in the US and Canada, providing roof inspection, repair, and emergency leak service. CentiMark typically works on flat roofs using EPDM rubber, thermoplastics, bitumen, metal, and coatings. Top customers include NASA and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its QuestMark division offers commercial, industrial, and retail flooring, do-it-yourself products, and floor maintenance and cleaning products. Chairman and CEO Edward Dunlap founded CentiMark as an industrial cleaning business in 1967. The company, which has 65 offices, is owned by its employees.

Cherry Hill Construction does business near Capitol Hill. The general contractor offers heavy construction and highway work in Washington, DC, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. It specializes in airport runways, bridges, commercial and residential site developments, mass structure excavations, municipal landfills, and pipelines and utilities. About half of Cherry Hill's revenues are earned from government agencies. Regional Departments of Transportation account for about one-third of its annual sales. Founded in 1966 as Cherry Hill Sand and Gravel Co., the company is today a subsidiary of Tutor Perini Corporation.

Prime Plastic Products actually goes by the three "R's" -- reduce, reuse, and recycle. The company buys plastic waste and scrap and recycles it into pellets. It will also buy film scrap, reprocessed pellets, surplus resins, and about a dozen grades of plastic, including PVC, nylon, and consumer plastics with SPI resin identification codes #4, #5 and #6. Prime Plastic Products also sells reprocessed pellets ready to be turned into soda bottles, milk jugs, and grocery bags. The company operates in 12 states spread fairly evenly throughout the country. CEO Vineet "Vince" Gupta, who started Prime Plastic Products in 1993, learned the trade from his father, who owned a plastics company in India.

Weaber manufactures rough and finished hardwood lumber, flooring, moulding, surfaced oak boards, and custom-cut wood products. Utilizing local species such as red oak, white oak, and poplar, the company also makes stair parts, logs, and secondary hardwood products such as wood chips, shredded bark mulch, dry planer shavings, and sawdust. Weaber processes some 50 million feet of hardwood logs annually. Walter H. Weaber established the plant in Pennsylvania's Appalachian forest in the 1950s. President and CEO Galen Weaber assumed ownership of the company in 1971 and has run it ever since.

Air Enterprises knows how to handle things. Air Enterprises, LLC custom designs, manufactures, and maintains commercial air-handling systems throughout the world. Founded in 1964, Air Enterprises offers specialties ranging from installing lights and switches to providing electrical and temperature control equipment, as well as piping. The company, which operates from its facility in Akron, Ohio, works on new construction and expansion projects. Clients include pharmaceutical companies, health care, educational, and commercial office buildings, and manufacturing facilities. Air Enterprises assembles its aluminum air-handling systems on-site and online unit design software.

Columbia Forest Products is one of North America's largest manufacturers of hardwood plywood, veneer, and logs. The employee-owned company manufactures plywood used to make cabinets, architectural millwork, commercial fixtures, and other products. Its veneer is used in cabinetry, doors, furniture, decorative plywood, and other applications. Columbia specializes in Northern Appalachian hardwoods such as oak, ash, birch, maple, hickory, walnut, and pine. It also imports hardwood plywood and panels from Asia, Africa, Russia, and South America. The company sells its products to manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and mass merchandisers.

Jelec engineers and installs safety electrical systems, instrumentation, and control systems, as well as provides facility inspection for its customers in the oil and gas industries. Specific products include basic and detail engineering, fire and gas detection systems, automation systems, telephone and talkback systems, CCTV systems, drilling instrumentation, and gauging technology. The company owns and operates facilities in Texas, Louisiana (manufacturing, operating as Jelec USA), and South Korea (Jelec Asia). Jelec was founded in 1996.

Contrary to its name, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) doesn't build iron bridges in Chicago. It is a global specialty engineering and construction company that designs and constructs energy infrastructure projects such as liquefied natural gas storage, petrochemical and gas processing plants, and heat transfer equipment. In addition to providing the technology used inside such facilities, the company also specializes in constructing storage tanks and other vessels. Major customers in each of these operating segments include CNOOC, Valero, Chevron, and SABIC. The company also serves other large corporations in the hydrocarbon, energy, power generation, and petrochemical industries.

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