Hardaway Construction is paying off all over the Southeast. The firm offers general contracting, construction management, and design/build services on both large and small projects. Known for the diversity of work it takes on, Hardaway has built everything from offices and schools to hospitals and industrial plants, among other commercial structures. Its Cumberland Builders unit focuses on the residential sector, building and remodeling condominiums and retirement facilities. The company's portfolio includes work on Vanderbilt University, the Gaylord Opryland Resort Hotel, and the Nashville International Airport. The family-owned company was founded in 1924 by the late L.H. Hardaway, Sr.

Barr & Barr takes a bite out of the Big Apple and US Northeast construction market. It provides contracting, construction management, and renovation services for commercial and institutional projects, with its focus on educational, health care, laboratory and research, commercial, and religious and historical buildings. Barr & Barr has offices in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts. Its projects include the Geonomics Institute and Lewis Library at Princeton University, the New England Medical Center in Boston, the Bass Library at Yale University, and the renovation of New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Joseph R. Barr founded the company in 1927. Employees own the company.

Amcol International Corporation focuses on the development and application of minerals and technology products and services to various industrial and consumer markets worldwide. AMCOL International Corporation operates in four segments: Minerals and Materials, Environmental, Oilfield Services, and Transportation. The Minerals and Materials segment mines, processes, and distributes minerals and products with applications for use in various industrial and consumer markets, including metal-casting, pet care, detergents, iron ore pelletizing, and drilling industries. The Environmental segment processes and distributes minerals, products, and services with applications for use as a moisture barrier in commercial construction, landfill liners, and various other industrial and commercial applications. The Oilfield Services segment provides both onshore and offshore water treatment filtration, pipeline separation, waste fluid treatment, nitrogen, rental tools, coil tubing, and well testing data services for the oil and natural gas industry. The Transportation segment includes both a long-haul trucking business and a freight brokerage business for domestic subsidiaries, as well as third parties. AMCOL International Corporation was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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.

C. Overaa & Co. has been making its mark in Northern California. Norwegian immigrant and carpenter Carl Overaa founded the company in 1907 in order to help rebuild San Francisco after a major earthquake struck. Today the family-owned company builds institutional, commercial, industrial, public, and housing projects primarily in San Francisco's East Bay. It provides preconstruction, design/build, construction, sustainable building, and contracting services. The company's customers have included Courtyard by Marriott, the John Muir Medical Center, the US Postal Service, YMCA, and the University of California, Berkeley.

A. O. Smith Water Products Company makes commercial and residential water heating equipment under such brands as Cyclone, Genesis, and Vertex. It also makes solar panel water heaters under the Cirrex name. Products include commercial boilers, commercial natural gas water heaters, residential electric and natural gas water heaters, expansion tanks, and pump tanks. Products are sold through a network of wholesale distributors, as well as through retail chains Sears and Lowes. More than 15 manufacturing plants are located in North America, Mexico, China, the Netherlands, and India. A. O. Smith Water Products Company, a division of A. O. Smith, is always in hot water -- and it works to assure that its customers are, too.

Millar Western Forest Products Ltd. company is a leading producer of bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp. The pulp is used by other manufacturers to make printing, writing, and specialty papers as well as paperboard, tissue, and paper towels. Through a company-owned mill in Whitecourt, Alberta, and a managed mill in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Millar produces 450,000 metric tons of pulp per year. The company also produces 300 million board feet of kiln-dried spruce, pine, and fir lumber from two sawmills in Whitecourt, and Boyle, Alberta. Millar Western Industries Ltd. owns the company.

RailWorks stays on track with construction services to railway and transit systems in the US and Canada. Through about a dozen operating subsidiaries, the specialty contractor builds and repairs tracks; provides installation of electrical and communications systems; and offers equipment and materials for track construction. Customers include short-line railroads, commuter railroads, transit authorities, municipalities, and power plants. Founded in 1998, RailWorks offers other services such as construction and maintenance on steel, concrete, and wooden railroad bridges. Wind Point Partners, along with company management, owns RailWorks.

H.J. Russell & Company, one of the US's largest minority-owned enterprises, helps shape southeastern cities. The firm is a general contractor, construction manager, property manager, and developer that specializes in affordable multifamily housing and mixed-use communities. It also has expertise in building airports, hospitals, office towers, retail stores, and schools. Its development arm, Russell New Urban Development, offers such services as feasibility analysis, land development, and asset management; it has more than $500 million in development under way. H.J. Russell also manages more than 6,000 apartment and public housing units. The family-owned company was founded by chairman Herman J. Russell in 1952.

Harry Mathews Jr. founded the privately-held company as the Mississippi Sand Company in Alton, Illinois in 1907. If you've been looking for lime in all the wrong places, your troubles are over. Mississippi Lime Company mines and manufactures such products as high-calcium lime, limestone, and other calcium-based chemicals used in agriculture applications or food additives. The company has operations in Missouri, South Carolina, West Virginia, and in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where its Falco Lime division is headquartered. Falco Lime serves customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Another division, Reagent Technology Services, provides air pollution control products.

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