Membership has its privileges -- a lower price is one of them. Through Lumbermens Merchandising Corporation (LMC) more than 350 stockholder lumber retailers throughout the US pool their buying resources to increase their purchasing power and get volume discounts from vendors. LMC's network of members includes about 1,200 building material dealer locations in 48 states and the Bahamas. The cooperative is the largest dealer-owned lumber building materials buying group in the US. It holds members to strict confidentiality, in part to safeguard vendor contracts. In addition to lumber and panel products, LMC also supplies its members with non-wood products, millwork, and hardware.

C. G. Schmidt as one of the top general contractors and construction managers in the Midwest. The company also offers design/build services. Markets include health care, senior living, commercial, education, industrial, parking structure, and municipal projects. C. G. Schmidt has completed projects for customers such as American Express, Ball Corporation, and The University of Wisconsin. The firm, founded in 1920 as Charles Schmidt & Sons Construction, is now in its fourth generation of family ownership and leadership with president and CEO Richard Schmidt, Jr.

Dean and Dyball is always up to something constructive. The company is one of the UK's largest privately owned construction companies. The company focuses on three main areas: civil engineering (water infrastructure, telecommunications, roads), building (health, education, retail, commercial, residential), and rail (stations, depots, facilities management). Dean & Dyball has worked on projects for clients such as Thames Water, Chelsea Football Club, and Kingston University. The company was borne out of the 1970 joint venture between John Dean and Peter Dyball Civil Engineering. UK construction giant Balfour Beatty acquired Dean and Dyball and 2008.

Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering keeps dredging work from being anything but drudgery. Also known as DEME, it is one of the largest marine engineering companies in the world. Through its subsidiaries, the group is involved in dredging and land reclamation, hydraulic engineering, environmental remediation, offshore oil and gas services, and marine aggregates. Its fleet of 80 main vessels includes the world's largest cutter suction dredger, the 38,000 hp D'Artagnan. DEME also has been instrumental in building many of Northern Europe's offshore wind farms. DEME has operations in 27 countries; it's equally owned by Ackermans & Van Haaren and Compagnie d'Enteprises.

Fiberesin Industries designs and manufactures custom engineered products for original equipment manufacturers. Using wood composites, paper, specialty plastics, resins, and laminates, the company produces a variety of components and subassemblies that clients use to make office furniture, cabinetry, medical products, doors, windows, and squash and racquetball courts. Fiberesin Industries' materials are meant to help enhance the durability, impact resistance, vapor resistance, structural integrity, performance, and appearance of clients' finished products. The company closed its Rodman Industries affiliate, which made particleboard, in 2006. Fiberesin Industries was founded in 1946.

The company makes acoustic control products and soundproof rooms and equipment to muffle the noise of industrial machinery. Its products include absorption systems, recording studios, jet-engine test cells, and sound-control doors. IAC serves the architectural, air-conditioning, industrial, power-generation, and aviation markets in more than 50 countries throughout the world. In 1998 the company, a subsidiary of IAC Holdings, went private after an unnamed European investor bought its remaining public shares. Martin Herschorn founded the company in 1949.

Enka focuses on building airports, bridges, industrial plants, hospitals, petrochemical plants, power plants, shopping malls, and other large structures and complexes. Enka also rents and manages office and retail buildings. The company operated hypermart shopping centers in Russia, but handed over operations of the markets by renting the spaces to Auchan in 2007. The transaction signals Enka's move away from retail management. Other operations include machinery distribution and management of natural-gas power plants. Tracing its roots back to 1957, Enka was formally established in 1967.

The original idea in 1979 recognized there was a niche available in the HVAC industry for a company that supplied high quality products, in a timely manner and backed up with outstanding customer service. Raymon fills those needs and continues to invent and reinvent the industry standards for quality, reliability, service and ingenuity.

General contractor Eby Corporation, operating primarily through its Martin K. Eby Construction subsidiary, provides design-build, construction management, general contracting, and related services on projects such as office buildings, medical facilities, athletic facilities, and historical renovations. Eby serves major corporations, universities, hospitals, and state and local governments. Clients have included Disney, The University of Texas, Wichita State University, and The Salvation Army. Martin K. Eby Construction, named after the group's founder and the father of chairman Martin K. Eby Jr., was founded in 1937.

Bechtel National, the government services arm of engineering giant Bechtel Group, helps the US destroy stockpiles of nuclear and chemical weapons and treat contaminated wastes. It has worked toward developing a national repository for nuclear waste in Nevada and it also helped the US defense program by managing the awarding of certain subcontracts in Iraq. Bechtel and the University of California manage and operate two to institutions for nuclear and scientific research labs -- Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Among the other governmental agencies it works with are NASA, the EPA, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

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