Patrick Industries makes and distributes building products, primarily for the manufactured home (MH) and RV industries. Products that it manufactures include cabinet, counter, furniture, and wall components, as well as adhesives, aluminum extrusions, and laminating machines. The company distributes such products as building hardware, hardboard and vinyl siding, particleboard, and wall and ceiling panels. The company was founded in 1959 by Mervin Lung and went public in 1968.

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.

Martinez + Cutri Corporation Architects, the firm specializes in designing environments. Besides educational facilities, its portfolio includes convention centers, mixed-use urban centers, luxury hotels, waterfront resorts, high-rise and multi-family residential developments, and industrial projects. Founded in 1980 by Joseph Martinez and Anthony Cutri, the firm offers architectural services, such as site analysis and selection, site planning and design development, cost estimation, interior design, community planning, and urban and regional design. Since its inception, Martinez + Cutri has designed more than 200 projects.

Perkins + Will (or modernly known as Perkins+Will) adds to skylines from Atlanta to Shanghai. The architectural firm designs edifices for corporate and civic clients, as well as schools, universities, and hospitals. Its projects run the gamut from office buildings and high-rise condominiums to hotels and convention centers to laboratories and elementary schools. The company also offers interior design, branding, planning, and urban design. Clients of the firm have included Chicago O'Hare, Duke University, Pfizer, and Time Warner. Perkins+Will operates from about 20 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will Jr. founded the firm in 1935.

Appalachian Log Homes designs and builds modern-day log structures for families and businesses. The company has more than 40 different pre-designed floor plans for log homes that range in size from about 430 sq. ft. to more than 4,000 sq. ft. and contain such modern amenities as sunrooms and skylights. The company can also custom-design homes to customer specifications. It makes log siding, railing, staircases, and wall systems as well. Commercial uses for the company's products include restaurants, office buildings, retail stores, churches, meeting halls, and lodges.

BE&K Building Group is a top US contractor. The company, which is part of Houston-based construction giant KBR, provides design-build services, construction management, general contracting, and other construction services. It specializes in mixed-use projects, educational facilities, entertainment venues, food and beverage plants, hospitals, hotels, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities. BE&K Building Group operates mostly in the Southeast, but also works on projects in other parts of the country. KBR bought BE&K for some $550 million in 2008.

The Imperial Bathroom Company hopes to conquer the world -- one lavatory at a time. The central England company's branded bathroom suites expand yearly and include Windsor (sweeping curves and fluted detailing), Oxford Bone (off-white), and Astoria (inspired by Art Deco). Imperial's offerings encompass bathroom furniture, tubs, taps and accessories, installation, and technical specifications. It offers a lifetime guarantee against manufacturing defects for its sanitary ware.

Batenburg Beheer helps companies batten down their electrical needs with installation and automation services. The specialty contractor provides electrotechnical, mechanical, and sanitary installations to clients in the commercial building, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. It also offers related design and consulting services. Batenburg serves clients through about a dozen subsidiaries that operate primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in France, Spain, and the UK. Sales are concentrated in the Benelux countries, with minimal exports to Europe and North America. Batenburg Beheer traces its roots to 1911 when Piet Batenburg started a technical installation company in Rotterdam.

MasTec, Inc. operates as a specialty contractor in the United States. It involves in the building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of utility and communications infrastructure. The company builds wind farms, solar farms, and underground and overhead distribution systems, such as trenches, conduits, cable, power lines, and pipelines, which provide wireless and wireline communications, electrical power generation and delivery, and natural gas, crude oil, and refined products transport. It also installs buried and aerial fiber optic cables, coaxial cables, copper lines, electrical and other energy distribution systems, transmission systems, and satellite dishes, as well as deploys and manages network connections. In addition, MasTec offers regular maintenance of distribution facilities and networks, as well as provides emergency services for accidents or storm damage. It serves utility, communications, and government customers. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

ESTec Systems is on the job. Through its Allan R. Nelson Engineering subsidiary, the company provides mechanical engineering (including fire investigations) and forensic engineering services (failure analysis and reporting for criminal and civil investigations and court cases) to the petrochemical, manufacturing, and drilling industries. It provides mechanical design, repair, construction, measurement, and certification services to oil, gas, mining, and construction companies from North and South America to Russia. ESTec also performs billing analysis for insurance companies investigating industrial accidents. The company was formed in 1989.

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