Sabanci Holding and HeidelbergCement equally share about 80% of Akcansa, which was founded in 1996. Akcansa Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret hopes you get stuck with them. The company produces about 16 million tons of cement and clinker each year from more than 40 plants and processing facilities in the Marmara, Aegean, and Black Sea regions of Turkey. Its products include cement, ready mix concrete (sold as Bentonsa), and concrete aggregates (sold as Agregasa). Akcansa also offers ship loading services at the ports of canakkale and Ambarli. Its subsidiary Karcimsa combines slag (a process byproduct) with clinker to produce slag cement.

Rocky Top Building Products produces pressure-treated lumber and engineered wood for residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, marine, and recreational applications. The company's products include dimension lumber, decking boards, railing, beams, lattice, and related fastening systems. The company operates facilities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and sells its products to professional builders and do-it-yourselfers through dealers in about a dozen northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Franklin Group, Rocky Top was established in 1977.

Cincinnati Dowel & Wood Products manufactures wooden floor plugs, pins, buttons, and pegs as well as a variety of dowels. The company's products include boat deck plugs, dowel pins, hardwood dowels, joinery biscuits, pine dowels, screwhole plugs, shaker pegs, side grain plugs, stair plugs, and table pins. Cincinnati Dowel & Wood Products makes its products from a variety of Appalachian hardwoods and softwoods, including cherry, mahogany, maple, oak, poplar, and walnut. The company supplies both large and small manufacturing companies, as well as the consumer market.

Delta Mutual, Inc., this development stage company has shifted its direction to being an environmental services provider. Delta Mutual offers waste processing and reclamation technology and equipment, as well as energy-efficient construction technologies to low-cost housing development projects. Its operations are concentrated in the US, the Asia/Pacific region, the Middle East, and Puerto Rico. In 2008 the company acquired American Hedge Fund LLC, a limited liability company that intends to make investments in South America.

Palm Harbor Homes, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of factory-built homes in the United States. The company manufactures a range of single and multi-section manufactured and modular homes, including ranch-style homes. It also builds single-section homes, split-level homes, cape cod style homes, and two and three story homes, as well as multi-family units, such as apartments and duplexes. In addition, the company offers conforming mortgages to the purchasers of factory-built homes sold by company-owned retail sales centers, as well as through certain independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Further, it provides property and casualty insurance, as well as extended warranties for the owners of manufactured homes. As of September 24, 2010, the company sold homes through 54 of the company-owned retail sales centers and builder locations, as well as through approximately 135 independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Addison, Texas. On November 29, 2010, Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Delaware.

Holcim (Australia) produces aggregate, cement, asphalt, and concrete block and pipe. The company operates more than 240 concrete plants and about 80 hard rock, sand, and gravel quarries in Australia. Its Humes division manufactures steel-reinforced concrete pipes and other precast concrete products. Mexican cement giant CEMEX acquired Rinker Group in 2007 for more than $16 million and renamed it CEMEX Australia. The hefty price tag sent CEMEX into massive debt, though, and the parent began selling off assets. In 2009 CEMEX sold the unit to rival Holcim, which has targeted Australia as a growth market.

W. M. Jordan Company is a unique construction company - based in Virginia, but nationally ranked, regional in geographic scope, and deeply connected to the local community from which we came. The pride and energy we put into our work has elevated our company to be one of the premier builders in the United States, consistently ranking in Engineering News Record's Top 400 Contractors list each year. W. M. Jordan Company began in 1958 with a very simple commitment to excellence: to strive for quality in every job, regardless of the size of the project, the budget or the timeframe. This strong foundation of integrity, trust, and mutual respect helped the business grow, and our projects increased in scope and complexity. By focusing on each and every client, and developing custom solutions to their building challenges, we have grown together. Over 80% of our work comes from repeat customers. We value these relationships, and enjoy building for our customers over and over again.

Fairmount Minerals is responsible for a fair amount of the minerals mined in the Midwest. Operating through several divisions and subsidiaries, Fairmount Minerals, Ltd. is one of the United States' largest producers of industrial sand used for construction, metal casting, glass, landscaping, oil and gas stimulation, filtration, abrasives, and filler. Products include silica sand, resin-coated sand, lake sand, and other specialty sands, including those used in pool filters, golf course bunkers, and children's sand boxes. Fairmount Minerals has operations in seven states (primarily in the Midwest) and in Canada, Mexico, and China, 11 mining and mineral processing facilities and seven manufacturing plants.

Dudek, where's my environmental consultant? California, apparently. The environmental firm , Dudek, works with private companies and municipalities to provide engineering, environmental consulting, construction, design, and project management services. The firm has overseen projects that involve natural resource management, infrastructure development, and regulatory compliance. Dudek specializes in water infrastructure, wastewater engineering, energy, transportation, urban forestry, education, and real estate development projects. Founded in 1980 by president Frank Dudek, the employee-owned company has seven offices in California.

Hanson was quite a catch for HeidelbergCement, which bought the building materials giant in 2007 to become one of the world's top cement companies. Hanson Limited makes and delivers aggregates (crushed rock, sand, and gravel), ready-mixed and precast concrete, asphalt, bricks, flooring, and other building materials. Its products are used for civil as well as commercial, residential, and industrial jobs. Hanson also provides civil engineering services through Hanson Contracting (road surfacing) and Irvine-Whitlock (specialist brick and block laying). In the UK, Hanson Limited operates more than 350 manufacturing sites (more than half are cement plants) and maintains a delivery fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles.

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