To TOTO, going to the restroom is not just a bodily function, it is a sublime experience. The #1 toilet brand in Japan, TOTO toilets incorporate electronic, water-saving, and grime-resistant technologies, and feature options from elevating toilet seats for the elderly to heated-seat toilets with warm-water bidet functions. The company makes plumbing and other home products and bathroom and kitchen units (about half of sales). TOTO also develops new metals, ceramics for the semiconductor industry, and photocatalyst technology used in making films, tiles, and auto body coatings. Its Hydrotect film is used to protect car mirrors.

Austin Commercial, a unit of construction group Austin Industries, provides general contracting, design/build, preconstruction, and construction management services for a range of commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, primarily in the Sun Belt. The group tackles projects ranging from airport terminals to horse racing facilities and steel mills to diaper factories, as well as corporate headquarters and health care, hospitality, and educational buildings. It also is known for its environmentally-friendly construction projects. Customers have included American Airlines, ExxonMobil, and IBM. Austin Commercial operates nine offices in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, California, and Florida.

RJC Architects, formerly Robbins Jorgensen Christopher, is keen on getting public interest. The architecture firm specializes in the development of public works projects such as fire stations and college buildings. Landscape architecture for golf courses and government buildings is another of the company's endeavors. RJC Architects has offices in Southern California and has operations throughout the southwestern US.

Plasti-Fab’s mission is to provide EPS Product Solutions for constructing energy-efficient buildings, floatation for marine construction, lightweight fill and compressible fill for geotechnical construction projects, and component solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers. Advantage ICF is a one-piece, stay-in-place, insulating concrete form made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation. A series of strong plastic web connectors are permanently molded into two EPS panels to create a building block. Advantage ICFs have a patented interlocking system along the top and bottom edges. Reinforcing steel is placed on the plastic web connectors inside the block cavity which is then filled with concrete, providing a highly energy-efficient building envelope.

American Walnut Company manufactures hardwood lumber, walnut gunstock blanks, and other wood products. The company gets its logs from species that include American black walnut, red oak, white oak, soft maple, hard maple, pecan, ash, and cottonwood from Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Its plant in St. Joseph, Missouri, plant annually produces more than 3 million board ft. of lumber. Subsidiary Dyrnamic Research Technologies produces handgun and rifle ammunition for hunting and law enforcement. Other offerings include export packaging and in-house freight forwarding. The firm traces its roots to 1889. American Walnut Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2010.

Cavalier Homes builds castles for regular Joes. Through about a half-dozen plants the company makes manufactured single- and multi-section homes for the low- to medium-priced market in the south-central and south-Atlantic US; it delivers around 4,000 homes annually. Louisiana is its largest market. Cavalier Homes also makes cabinetry and laminated wallboard. The company markets its products through a network of about 50 exclusive and about 240 non-exclusive dealers, as well as one company-owned retail center. Southern Energy Homes, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company Clayton Homes, bought Cavalier Homes for nearly $50 million in 2009.

Family-owned Okland Construction Company is a regional general contracting, design/build, and construction management firm. The company works on projects in several construction markets: commercial, education, government, health care, infrastructure, high-tech, industrial, retail, and corporate. Okland Construction offers value engineering and phased or fast-track design and construction. It also provides pre-construction services, risk management, and partnering. Self-performed work includes concrete construction, wood framing, and carpentry. Okland has constructed projects in about 30 US states and throughout Mexico. It has offices in Salt Lake City; Durango, Colorado; Ketchum, Idaho; and Tempe, Arizona.

Holcim Ltd. engages in the manufacture and distribution of cement, and the production, processing, and distribution of aggregates worldwide. It offers cement comprising clinker and cement, mineral components, and other cementitious materials; aggregates, including crushed stone, gravel, and sand, which are primarily used in manufacturing ready-mix concrete, concrete products, and asphalt, as well as for road building and railway tracks; and ready-mix concrete and asphalt products. In addition, the company provides consulting, research, trading, and engineering services, as well as environmental services, including waste management. Holcim was founded in 1912 and is based in Jona, Switzerland.

The Viessmann Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of heating and renewable energy systems. Family-owned since 1917, Dr. Martin Viessmann leads the company in its third generation. The group today employs over 8,600 employees worldwide and has a turnover of approx. 1.7 billion Euros. 16 manufacturing facilities in Germany, France, Canada, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and China, sales & distribution facilities in Germany and 37 other countries, and 120 sales centers worldwide provide customer proximity and a strong global presence. Exports account for 60% of sales.

Geo-Marine displays Marine-like discipline in providing engineering and environmental compliance and remediation services for a wide range of public and private sector clients, including the US government (including the Department of Defense and the Air National Guard). Services range from energy conservation analysis to archeological investigations to the development of radar-based bird-detection systems for aircraft. The firm has undertaken projects throughout North America and in the Caribbean, South America, and Asia. The company, which operates from seven offices across the US, was acquired by Applied Research Associates in 2009.

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