Babcock Lumber produces hardwood lumber products (dimension lumber, plywood, flooring, logs, and other millwork), custom laminate and solid surface countertops, and floor and roof trusses. Babcock Lumber operates five hardwood manufacturing plants in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. It also distributes building materials such as siding, insulation, doors, and windows, as well as kitchen and bath fixtures, sinks, and cabinets, through ten facilities in Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

The Collins Companies makes its money by lumbering around and gathering dust -- sawdust, that is. The company operates a group of forest product divisions that include four sawmills capable of producing more than 250 million board feet of lumber annually. The group manufactures lumber, veneer logs and flooring, pine particleboard, and TruWood brand siding and trim. It harvests wood from forests in California, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, using hardwood species such as ash, oak, maple, black cherry, poplar, and basswood, and softwood species including white fir, incense cedar, and three varieties of pine. The business has been family-owned since its inception in 1855.

Altoon + Porter Architects wants to be in tune with its customer's design needs. The company provides architectural planning and design services for institutional, historical, retail, mixed-use, and transit projects in the US and around the world. Altoon + Porter often works with cities, community groups, and commercial developers. The company can design both exteriors and interiors of buildings, as well as streetscape and master plan projects. Altoon + Porter has worked for a variety of customers including University of California, Los Angeles, the National Football League, andSamsung. Partner James Porter founded Altoon + Porter Architects in 1984.

Chas Roberts isn't just the name on the door. Chas and Alice Roberts founded Chas Roberts Air Conditioning in 1942. The business has been family owned and operated since day one.Prior to founding the business, Chas worked as a serviceman for the local utility. In the early years, sales consisted of home appliances, coolers, furnaces, air conditioners and service. In the 50s and 60s, the company grew doing retrofits of houses with coolers to air conditioners, new installs in custom and tract homes and light commercial air conditioning. Chas Robert's son, Chuck, took over managing the company in the 60s and provided the vision for future growth.

AHI Linden Lumber has the goods for your sweet home Alabama. Also known as Linden Lumber, the company specializes in southern hardwood lumber, namely red oak, white oak, and ash. It can produce as much as 80 million board ft. of these species annually, placing Linden Lumber among the top producers in the South. However, the housing downturn and subsequent financial crisis hurt the company hard with a decrease in demand and lowered sales. Private equity firm H.I.G. Investments recapitalized Linden in 2008, but by the end of the year the lumber company had laid off most of its workforce. The company is undergoing a restructuring of its product line and operations to keep afloat.

Founded in 1902 by John Wainwright and John Luff, the company remains family-owned. John Wainwright and Co sticks to the surface of the road-paving business. The company supplies aggregates and asphalt to construction companies in the UK. Its three main products are roadstone (a crushed basalt mixture used as the top layer of the road surface), surface dressing chippings, and coated materials that offer skid resistance when vehicle tires come in contact with the pavement. John Wainwright extracts rocks and raw materials from the Moons Hill and Stoke quarries.

Pioneer Millworks is blazing a trail in the reclaimed-wood millworks industry. The firm reclaims or harvests a variety of wood species with a range of grades and finishes to produce timbers, flooring, and millwork. Much of the wood Pioneer Millworks reclaims comes from old barns and industrial buildings. The company has also launched a unit that manufactures engineered flooring that uses recycled material and formaldehyde-free adhesives. Sister company New Energy Works Timberframers focuses on creating timber-frame structures. Founder and president Jonathan Orpin owns Pioneer Millworks.

Adonis Construction builds commercial and industrial structures and provides refurbishing services primarily in the West Midlands region of the UK, although it also offers coverage in specialist work throughout the country. The company builds a range of structures that include health, education, and public service facilities; social housing and residential care centers; convention centers; car dealership showrooms; theme bars; fitness centers; and garden centers. Adonis was founded by managing director Neville Clements in 1978.

Roebbelen Contracting provides commercial, industrial, and institutional general contracting and construction management services in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. The company tackles such projects as schools, offices, hospitals, retail facilities, performing arts centers, and power plants. Roebbelen is also known for its telecommunications work throughout the western US -- the company has been involved in more than 6,000 telecom projects including the construction of call centers, switching facilities, and cellular facilities. Roebbelen Contracting was founded as a government contractor in 1959 by Hans and Anna Roebbelen.

International Computer Appliances Corporation (which does business as ICA Corporation) is a contract manufacturer that makes custom metal component parts for analytical instrumentation, aerospace, medical equipment, and other products. The company provides sheet metal fabrication and laser cutting, precision machining, custom enclosures, and chassis assemblies. ICA Corporation also offers value-added services, from assembling medical diagnostic devices with multi-language software to packaging custom kits and inventory management. Its manufacturing facility takes up 60,000 sq. ft. in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis. ICA Corporation, which was founded in 1970, is employee-owned.

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