Tembec is the little mill that could -- and did. Rescued by workers from a shuttered mill in 1973, the forest products company today maintains significant operations in the US, Canada, and France. Through about 30 manufacturing facilities it produces pulp, paper, paperboard, lumber, and chemicals from the by-products of its pulping process; these products are marketed worldwide. Tembec's pulp unit, the company's largest group, accounts for more than half of sales. Its wood products unit sells SPF (spruce-pine-fir) lumber and hardwood flooring products primarily in North America. Tembec also manages forest land in four Canadian provinces. Outside of North America, it has sales offices in Asia.

General Engineering lays the groundwork for a customer's business. The company manufactures prefabricated concrete building materials and distributes construction goods made by other manufacturers. Products include precast concrete forms, bridge bearings, and expansion joints. The company's core products are its prestressed concrete pilings. Designed for the moist climate and soft soil of Thailand, its pilings are used in the foundations of highways, factories, power plants, and other structures. General Engineering also produces industrial grout and rapid hardening concrete under a license from Japan-based Denki Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Customers include the Thailand Department of Highways.

Garney Holdings has garnered more than 45 years of experience in the water infrastructure business. The company, which operates as Garney Construction, builds water and wastewater pipelines and mains, aqueducts, pumping and storage facilities, and wastewater treatment plants for public and investor-owned utilities, as well as for industrial customers. The employee-owned firm, formed in 1961, has offices in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, and Tennessee. Its subsidiaries include Garney Companies, Garney Wyoming, and Grimm Construction.

Rogers Group is owned by the family of Ralph Rogers, who founded the company as a roadside crushing operation at the age of 19 in 1908. Rogers Group doesn't crush dreams but it sure crushes the tar out of stones. The company operates about some 60 quarries, construction facilities, and related locations in the Southeast and Midwest. With a heavy presence in Tennessee, the group produces crushed stone as well as asphalt paving, sand, gravel, and other construction materials. Rogers Group also offers highway construction and concrete masonry services. It is the nation's largest private crushed stone producer.

Recycled from the former Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Ventures oversees recycling and solid waste investments. The company's holdings include an 83.1% stake in Mine Reclamation Corporation (MRC) and a 50% stake in West Valley Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station, which separates waste materials for recycling or storage. Through MRC, the company has turned Kaiser Steel's iron-ore mining pits into a rail-accessible solid waste landfill at Eagle Mountain in the California desert; it has agreed to sell the landfill to County District No. 2 of Los Angeles County. However, lawsuits from local residents have blocked the deal. Kaiser Ventures is owned mainly by former creditors of Kaiser Steel.

Terrapin International Limited designs, manufactures, and constructs temporary and permanent prefabricated buildings throughout the UK, mainly through its Terrapin Limited subsidiary. Its buildings are used for retail space, showrooms, offices, laboratories, conference facilities, training rooms, prisons, and nurseries, in addition to apartments, social housing, army barracks, and hotels. The company serves clients in such markets as education, health care, and local government. Terrapin offers its products for sale and lease and offers financing programs, as well.

C. Overaa & Co. has been making its mark in Northern California. Norwegian immigrant and carpenter Carl Overaa founded the company in 1907 in order to help rebuild San Francisco after a major earthquake struck. Today the family-owned company builds institutional, commercial, industrial, public, and housing projects primarily in San Francisco's East Bay. It provides preconstruction, design/build, construction, sustainable building, and contracting services. The company's customers have included Courtyard by Marriott, the John Muir Medical Center, the US Postal Service, YMCA, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Syska Hennessy Group is a smooth operator in world of engineering and consulting. With offices in the US and China, the firm tackles some of the world's most technically sophisticated buildings, including part of the Pentagon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and high-tech data centers for the likes of Oracle, SAS, and Verizon. Services consist of sustainable design consulting, architectural lighting design, security consulting, audio/visual design, facilities management, and commissioning (which ensures that a facility's performance complies with its design intent). The group serves a wide range of markets, including corporations, government facilities, hospitals, colleges, and sports venues.

Anshen+Allen Architects is a plus for clients who require interior and exterior planning services for their school or hospital. The firm provides architectural and interior design services; it specializes in education, research, and health care facilities. Projects include the Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK, and a research center at Harvard University. The company's Medergy venture detoxifies hospital waste, creating synthetic hydrogen gas for powering fuel cells. Canada-based construction and design firm Stantec is buying Anshen+Allen.

Time is money, but TIMEC is like money in the bank for the oil and gas industry. The company provides maintenance, turnaround, and construction services to oil and gas, industrial, and utility customers in the US. The company, which has 11 offices in the US, specializes in catalyst handling, outsourced training, safety support, small capital construction, specialized welding, supplemental maintenance, and turnkey turnaround services. TIMEC works at some 39 of the country's 150 refineries with clients such as Chevron, Shell, and Marathon Petroleum. J.G. Red" Meacham and R. Briggs Wood founded the company in 1971. Transfield Services bought TIMEC in 2007 for $100 million.

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