The Midwest is the best for Power Construction Company, a general contractor operating in the Chicago area for more than 80 years. The company provides preconstruction planning, construction management, and design/build services for health care, education, hotel, and corporate projects. Power Construction is engaged in new building construction as well as buildouts, expansions, and renovations. More than 90% of the firm's business comes from repeat customers, which have included Astellas Pharma US, Federal Express, and Walgreen. Jerome Goldstein founded the company, which is still owned by management, in 1926.

Ausenco Limited offers engineering, construction, and project management to mining, marine, and other industries. The group operates through five business units: Ausenco Minerals, Ascentis Operations, Pipeline Systems Incorporated, Sandwell, and Vector Engineering. They advise on process, mechanical, civil/structural, and electrical design of plants and pipelines for customers in the energy, oil and gas, transportation, and water and solid waste industries. Ausenco also offers geotechnical and environmental consulting. With operations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, the firm is able to support a global customer base, from established to start-up resource companies.

McKinstry, one of the top specialty contractors in the Pacific Northwest, provides mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services in Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Oregon, and Washington. It designs and maintains complete building systems such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), fire protection, piping, parking, and solar panel and rain collection. The company also provides design/build, facilities management, project management, and maintenance services. McKinstry works on new buildings or retrofits existing facilities. It targets the commercial, high-tech, health care, hospitality, and industrial markets. The company was in 1960 by George Allen and Merrill McKinstry.

Hasegawa International pushes wood products from all over the world to market in Japan. Its product offerings include North American Red Alder hardwood logs and lumber, interior and entrance doors; Russian birch logs, lumber, plywood, panels, flooring, and doors; and Chinese Asian Cherry doors, flooring, and kitchen cabinet doors. Hasegawa International also imports Russian Red Pine and Larch products including posts, beams, lumber, veneer, panels, and doors. The company has two sales offices in Japan and two sales offices as well as a Red Alder manufacturing facility in China. Hasegawa International was founded in 1981.

Tulikivi might not be able to warm a cold heart, but it can warm a cold hearth. Branding itself as the largest soapstone processor in the world, this Finnish company manufactures heat-retaining fireplaces and processes architectural stone for indoor and outdoor landscaping. Tulikivi builds and sells soapstone fireplaces, bakeovens, and stoves that can be custom-made to client specifications. Its architectural stone segment produces sinks, countertops, tiles, and flooring made of soapstone, granite, marble, and limestone.

T&S Brass and Bronze Works manufactures faucets, fittings, valves, and specialty products for customers in the foodservice, industrial, commercial plumbing, and laboratory markets throughout the world. T&S offers lead-free fixtures, as well as environmentally-friendly low-flow products that use less water. The company operates from offices in the US, Europe, and Australia. Its products also are sold by representatives in Asia and South America. T&S Brass and Bronze Works was founded in 1947 as a developer of foodservice plumbing equipment.

Project Enhancement offers a variety of environmental services, including hazardous waste management, nuclear plant decommissioning, and stabilization and disposition of nuclear materials. The company serves customers throughout the US from offices in Maryland, Tennessee, and Washington state. Clients have included several US Department of Energy nuclear sites, as well a range of industrial manufacturing companies and utilties including Bechtel, British Nuclear Fuels, Commonwealth Edison, Fluor, Lockheed Martin, Morrison Knudsen, and Science Applications International.

Superior Ready Mix Concrete, with more than 20 plants throughout Southern California, traces its roots to a concrete batch plant that was incorporated by Jack Brouwer in 1959 as Escondido Ready Mix Concrete, Inc. Superior Ready Mix Concrete continues to be family owned. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's strives to make its lowly products top-of-the-heap. Superior Ready Mix Concrete provides concrete, aggregates, and asphalt products for contractors and homeowners. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's products also include block, decorative rock, sand, tools, and other building materials for small and large-scale projects. Superior also sells used paving equipment and trucks. Its paving division resurfaces roads and highways around California.

Joseph Wong Design Associates (JWDA) provides architectural, master planning, interior design, project management, and programming services for public and private sector clients in China and the western US. Its portfolio of completed and in-progress projects includes the mixed-use residential and corporate Deep Blue Plaza towers and the Lotus Creative Center industrial complex (in China) and the San Diego Convention Center and the San Diego Marriott Del Mar Hotel (in the US). China-born architect Joseph Wong established JWDA in San Diego in 1977.

Manufactured Housing Enterprises builds modular, sectional, and singlewide homes as well as commercial and retail developments for clients in the Midwest. The company is the largest manufactured home builder in Ohio and among the 20 largest in the country. It offers more than 80 floor plans for singlewide homes as well as two-story homes of more than 3,000 sq. ft. The company has delivered homes to Illinois, Indiana, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Manufactured Housing Enterprises was established in 1965, when being "mod" was fab.

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