Jaya Tiasa's newest venture is palm oil. It is developing more than 200,000 acres of plantation land and plans to operate six palm oil mills by 2014. Jaya Tiasa's businesses are growing, and, one might even say, soaring. The company owns timber operations, oil palm plantations, and a small helicopter chartering service. Its timber products include round logs, sawn timber, plywood, blockboard, and veneer, all produced from the trees grown on almost 2 million acres of forest in Malaysia. Jaya's wood products are exported to the Asia/Pacific, the US, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company also has a reforestation operation, which grows and sells tree seedlings.

The firm was founded by Scottish-born Henry Alexander, grandfather of chairman and CEO Patrick Alexander. Cold Spring Granite has been chipping away as a granite business since the late 1800s. The company operates about 30 granite quarries and five fabrication facilities in Canada and the US that produce 1.5 million net cube of granites per year for commercial, residential, and institutional use. Its granite products include floor tiles, countertop slabs, paving materials, and exterior building blocks; its Memorialization division makes upright monuments, bronze markers, urns, bases, and mausoleums. Cold Spring's granite can be found in national monuments, cemeteries, and the columns of Minnesota's state capitol.

The original idea in 1979 recognized there was a niche available in the HVAC industry for a company that supplied high quality products, in a timely manner and backed up with outstanding customer service. Raymon fills those needs and continues to invent and reinvent the industry standards for quality, reliability, service and ingenuity.

Baillie Lumber Co. company produces and distributes nearly 200 million board ft. of American hardwood products annually. Baillie Lumber offers species that include cherry, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, poplar, beech, and ash, in addition to exotic species such as mahogany and teak. It operates five production facilities, three sawmills, and warehouses in the US and overseas and exports its products to more than 60 countries. Baillie's customers include window manufactures and furniture and molding makers. James Baillie founded the company as a lumber brokerage firm in Hamburg, New York in 1923.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction quenches the world's thirst for power and water. The company, which is partially owned by Doosan, builds nuclear, thermal, combined cycle, cogeneration, and hydro-power plants worldwide, with projects under way in China, India, South Korea, and the US, among other countries. Doosan Heavy also specializes in building seawater desalination facilities, in addition to water and wastewater plants. Through various other divisions, it builds highways, subways, high-speed railroads, tunnels, gas pipelines, office buildings, and apartments, and supplies casting and forging products and materials handling equipment. Doosan Heavy was established in 1962.

California's Gunite & Pool Plastering dove right into the business of gunite and plaster and pebble interior surfaces for swimming pools, fountains, and other applications. Gunite is a dry mixture of cement, sand, and water that creates waterproof surfaces when sprayed onto a mold. The company performs replastering and remodeling services on pools, including adding fountains, waterfalls, and spas throughout the San Francisco Bay area. California's Gunite & Pool Plastering also offers retaining wall repair, slope stabilization, faux rock formation, and reservoir and pond repair. President and part owner Manuel Rodriguez founded the company in 1992; it became a corporation in 1996.

Brock White Company was founded in 1954 by George White and Wayne Brock, two former chemical engineering classmates at the University of Minnesota. Contractors in the Upper Midwest and Prairie regions of Canada can go to Brock White Company if they need specialty construction products including brick, stone, specialty chemicals, waterproofing materials, and masonry accessories. Its Canadian locations also supply mechanical insulation and roofing products. The distribution company operates from some 20 locations in the US and Canada, as well as through catalogs and the Internet. Customers include commercial, residential, road and bridge, and erosion control construction companies.

Tong Yang Major has acquired such companies as Sewoon Corp. and Hanil Synthetic Fiber. It also majority owns Tong Yang Cement, formerly a joint venture with France's Lafarge, one of the largest cement companies in the world. Tong Yang Major pours its heart into its cement. The construction company makes and sells cement and ready-mixed concrete and uses those materials to build luxury apartments, offices, industrial plants, and dams. In addition to more than 30 manufacturing factories in South Korea, Tong Yang Major Corporation runs a research and development facility, where it focuses on designing concrete that is water-tight, crack- and slump-resistant, and suited to handle harsh weather conditions.

Waterman Group provides engineering and environmental consulting throughout the Asia/Pacific region, Australia, Europe, and Russia. It also provides mechanical and electrical services and facilities management. The global, multidisciplinary firm has expanded significantly from the pure structural engineering firm founded by Harold Waterman in 1952 to help rebuild towns damaged in WWII bombings. Growth has come both organically and through acquisitions, which have occured at a steady pace for the company, adding to Waterman Group's expertise and reach.

Ground Construction Ltd. (GCL) isn't afraid to get a little dirty on the job. GCL subcontracts with UK property developers to ready land sites and construct building foundations. The firm handles site preparation from demolition, excavation, and groundworks to drainage and concrete frames, primarily in London and the home counties. It has completed more than 200 industrial, office, academic, and residential projects. Founded in 1997, the company has been in on the ground floor (so to speak) of such projects as Gainsborough Studios, London; Lambeth College, London; and Broadway House, Wimbledon.

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