Martin Marietta Aggregates got true grit. Martin Marietta Aggregates produces and supplies crushed granite and limestone, sand, and gravel for highway and public infrastructure, residential, and commercial projects in the US (primarily in the South and Midwest), Canada, and the Caribbean. It operates about 275 quarries, underground mines, and distribution facilities. Martin Marietta Aggregates also produces asphalt and ready-mix concrete and operates a road paving business. Martin Marietta Aggregates accounts for more than 90% of parent Martin Marietta Materials' sales.

Revcor blows hot and cold. The company utilizes advanced airflow technology to manufacture metal and plastic wheels, fans, and blowers for use in the heating and air conditioning, automotive, and off-road original equipment manufacturer markets. Revcor's products include the Revolutionary Air Flow and SmoothFlow Systems. The company also offers system analysis and project software. Revcor products are manufactured at a plant in Carpentersville, Illinois (near Chicago) and an axial fan assembly facility with other manufacturing capabilities in Mexico.

JJJ Floor Covering provides a variety of commercial floor covering products and installation services, primarily for customers in California. The company's products include commercial carpets, vinyl tile, stone, wood, and other types of flooring. JJJ operates from offices in Northern and Southern California. Clients include educational facilities, hospitals, and offices. The company also works on tenant improvement projects. Minority-owned JJJ Floor Covering was founded in 1964. It is part of Starnet Worldwide -- a partnership of 170 individually-owned commercial flooring companies in North America and the UK.

Burns & McDonnell provides construction services, not legal advice. A top design/build firm in the US, the company provides engineering, architectural, construction, environmental remediation, and consulting services. It is one of the leading constructors of electric transmission and distribution infrastructure, airports, and fossil fuel and chemical plants. Burns & McDonnell also serves the government, manufacturing, health care, telecommunications, transportation, and water and wastewater sectors, among others. Burns & McDonnell has about 20 offices throughout the US.

APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials. The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson.

Uralita makes building materials including insulation, gypsum, roof tiles, and pipes. Product lines include Pladur plasterboard for building partitions, Cobert roofing tiles and bricks, and Adequa plastic pipes for commercial and infrastructure use. Insulation accounts for about half of the group's business. The company has about 45 production plants in operation or under development throughout Europe. Uralita is the market leader in Spain (where it makes about half of its revenues) and Portugal. The wealthy Serratosa family owns 79% of the firm through investment vehicle Nefinsa. Uralita was founded in 1907 as a fiber cement company.

Thomas Concrete Industries, Inc. is one Georgia's largest producers of ready-mix concrete. Its products are used for commercial and residential projects and include high-strength, colored, exposed aggregate, and architectural concrete. The company operates about 50 plants in its home state and in North and South Carolina; it also has a fleet of mixer trucks. Thomas Concrete Industries is owned by Thomas Concrete Group AB, a Swedish conglomerate which also includes Fardig Betong and Thomas Beton. For Thomas Concrete Industries, the strength is in the mix.

Warings Contractors provides building services to a number of different sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial. In addition, the design/build company has worked on defense-related projects, built airport structures, and constructed leisure properties such as hotels and country clubs. Warings, which operates in southern England, has also been part of J Sainsbury's store reinvigoration project in that region. The firm began as a small family-owned business in Yorkshire that relocated to Portsmouth in 1933. It was bought out by management in 1998, then acquired by French construction firm Bouygues SA in 2007.

Kentucky-Indiana Lumber, which does business as K-I Lumber & Building Materials, offers cabinets, decking, doors, lumber, millwork, plywood, roofing, siding, stairways, trusses, windows, and other building materials to dealers, builders, remodelers, do-it-yourselfers, and general contractors. The company's market area primarily consists of the seven-state area surrounding its four distribution yards in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky and Clarksville and Evansville, Indiana, though the company does distribute its products nationally and internationally. It also installs cabinets, custom millwork, carpeting, and tile. Kentucky-Indiana Lumber was founded in 1932.

Lewis Tree Service really keeps trees in line with its vegetation management services. The employee-owned company helps utilities and government agencies throughout the eastern US distribute, remove, and maintain vegetation near construction sites, pipelines, substations, and billboards. It also provides storm emergency response services to clear fallen vegetation from roads and right-of-ways so that power can be restored. In addition, Lewis Tree Service sells its retired automotive equipment, including both gas and diesel pick-up trucks, lift trucks, and chip trucks. Connecticut Light and Power is among the company's customers.

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