American Buildings Company manufactures metal buildings and roofing products for industrial, institutional, and commercial construction applications. From multi-story buildings to customized self-storage units to metal roof and wall panels, the company's buildings and components are marketed through a network of more than 1,000 authorized builders and dealers in the US and Canada. Its heavy fabrication capabilities include building custom-engineered steel mills, sports stadiums, and large aircraft maintenance hangars. American Buildings Company and its former parent, MAGNATRAX, were acquired by steelmaker Nucor Corporation in 2007.

PGT Industries is the nation's leading manufacturer and supplier of residential impact-resistant windows and doors, as well as one of the largest window and door manufacturers in the nation, serving both the residential and commercial markets. Founded in 1980, the company pioneered the U.S. impact-resistant window and door segment and today employs approximately 1,350 at its manufacturing facilities in Florida and North Carolina.

Harley Ellis Devereaux offers architecture, engineering, interior, landscaping, planning, preservation, and other services from about a half-dozen offices in the Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Diego metro areas. The company serves corporations, health care firms, universities, and government agencies; it has done work for such clients as Comerica, General Motors, Stanford University, and Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Companies affiliated with Harley Ellis Devereaux offer such specialized services as crime lab design, environmentally sustainable design consulting, and real estate services.

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.

Levine Builder offers general contracting and management services for ground-up construction and renovation projects. Since its founding in 1979, it has completed more than 60 projects, including hotels, high-rise residential, and retail space, as well as affordable housing, assisted-living facilities, and churches. Its affiliate Douglaston Development oversees Levine's real estate development, while another of its affiliates, Clinton Management, provides property management services for Levine-owned buildings. Chairman Jeffrey E. Levine founded the company and its affiliates.

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.

Harbour Contractors is no port in a storm but it could build one. One of the top construction companies in the Midwest and central US, it offers program management, design/build, and construction management services. It focuses on industrial facilities, distribution centers, transportation systems, food processing centers, and interior build-out and renovation. But it also builds shopping centers and sports facilities. Recent projects include several railway storage in transit facilities for Chevron Phillips and an upscale retail center. The family owned firm was founded in 1959 by Irving C. Harbour. The company is now owned by CEO Patrick Harbour and vice president Jonathan Harbour.

Hampton Affiliates knows trees from the seedling to the stud. One of Oregon's top timber firms, Hampton produces approximately 2 billion board ft. of softwood lumber yearly through eight sawmills. The company has some 170,000 acres of timberland in Oregon and Washington and manages some 300,000 acres of publicly owned forest land in British Columbia. Through its Hampton Distribution Companies division, it distributes doors, windows, and other building materials. Hampton supplies homebuilding centers through its stud lumber and distribution operations. The company has its own railcar fleet to transport its products.

Forest Electric focuses on electrifying the concrete jungle, not tracts of timberland. A subsidiary of engineering and construction giant EMCOR, Forest Electric is one of the largest electrical contractors in the New York metropolitan area, where it installs and maintains electrical systems and equipment, including voice and data communications systems. It also constructs on-site power generating and cogeneration plants. Forest Electric's customer list includes The New York Times, the New York Mercantile Exchange, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Goldman Sachs. The company also is involved in providing electrical services for several condominium conversions in New York and New Jersey.

Brownlee Lumber Company (BLC) sells lumber products and veneer logs from species that include red oak, white oak, cherry, ash, poplar, and hard maple. Its manufacturing complex is comprised of sawmills, dry kilns, and a planer mill. The company's foresters also provide services to help timber owners manage standing timber lots. The enterprise was started in 1973 by brothers Charles and Dan Brownlee, who contracted themselves as loggers to sawmills in western Pennsylvania. In 1978 they established their own mill. Dan is president of the family-owned and -operated company.

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