Adonel Concrete has its footprint firmly planted in South Florida. With six concrete plants, the privately-owned company is a materials supplier to residential and commercial construction projects from Key Largo to Palm Beach. It makes concrete and special mixes that repel water, inhibit corrosion, and self compact. Clients have included homebuilders Caribe Homes and Lennar, Perini Marine Construction, and Trans Florida Development. President Luis Garcia, an immigrant from Nicaragua, started the company in 1984 with a single employee and a single truck. Adonel Concrete has expanded to some 150 trucks and about 250 employees.

HOCHTIEF is a giant in Germany and beyond. In addition to doing business throughout Europe, the construction-related services provider operates in the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region and is among the world's largest general builders. US subsidiaries Turner and Flatiron provide building and infrastructure construction. Leighton Holdings, based in Australia, provides engineering and construction services for the infrastructure and mining industries. The group also operates in European countries including the Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, and the UK. HOCHTIEF focuses all of its business around the world in six areas: Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, real estate, services, and concessions.

C. G. Schmidt as one of the top general contractors and construction managers in the Midwest. The company also offers design/build services. Markets include health care, senior living, commercial, education, industrial, parking structure, and municipal projects. C. G. Schmidt has completed projects for customers such as American Express, Ball Corporation, and The University of Wisconsin. The firm, founded in 1920 as Charles Schmidt & Sons Construction, is now in its fourth generation of family ownership and leadership with president and CEO Richard Schmidt, Jr.

Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables and to control cable dynamics. These products also include hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. It also provides protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. In addition, the company offers data communication cabinets that are used in high-speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment; plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

NORDYNE serves the HVAC market by providing innovative, quality indoor comfort systems for the Add-On, Replacement and New Construction/Builder markets world wide. We create an outstanding value proposition in each step of the channel by developing, manufacturing and launching products ahead of the competition. We strive to develop and maintain loyal distributors, dealers, builders and consumers who enjoy the experience of there products.

TDIndustries, the specialty contractor installs heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC); electrical; and plumbing systems in commercial, industrial, and multifamily residential buildings. TD also offers facility services including repairing and upgrading mechanical systems. The company maintains HVAC systems for the Houston Airport System and Rice University, among others. TD works primarily in Texas, but also has operations in Arizona. High-profile projects have included work on the Texas Governor's Mansion and the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Chairman Jack Lowe Jr.'s father founded the employee-owned company in 1946.

Founded in 1866 by David Saylor as Coplay Cement, the company is now a part of the Italian cement and building materials group, Italcementi. Essroc Cement likes to mix it up. The company operates about a dozen cement plants and other facilities in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and has an annual capacity of more than 6.5 million metric tons of cement. Essroc makes bulk and packaged cement products, including portland cement, ready mix concrete, and masonry cement. Its AXIM Concrete Technologies subsidiary creates concrete admixtures used to improve the performance quality of cement. Essroc's brands include BRIXMENT, Saylor's PLUS, and VELVET masonry. Its BRAVO line includes masonry chemical products.

Hammerstone (formerly Birch Mountain Resources) is trying to climb to the top of the heap in the industrial minerals business. The company was exploring and developing precious metal properties, but is now concentrating on industrial mineral properties (primarily lime and concrete aggregate) in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. Formed in 1994, the company has two major divisions: industrial minerals and mineral exploration and technology. In 2008, after defaulting on a loan with its primary banker, Birch Mountain Resources went into receivership. An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management acquired the assets of the company, including a limestone quarry in Alberta, in 2009.

Founded in 1940 by Gene Winchester, QUIKRETE is still owned and operated by the Winchester family. QUIKRETE is set in its ways. The company makes more than 200 dry-packaged cement and concrete products, including concrete mixes, mortar mixes, and stuccos, as well as sand and aggregates. The products are sold to do-it-yourself consumers and professional contractors. QUIKRETE also makes coatings and concrete repair products, including vinyl patching mixes and tubed crack sealers. the company operates about 95 manufacturing plants throughout North, South, and Central America; it also has a research and development center in Atlanta.

MCG Architects (which does business as MCG Architecture) specializes in designing and planning shopping centers and other retail buildings, as well as urban renewal projects and hotels. The firm provides consulting, surveying, site analysis, cost control, computer-aided design, and project management services; it also offers interior and graphic design services. Projects include the Centennial Centre in Las Vegas; Independence Corporate Center in Cleveland; and Natomas Town Center in Sacramento, California.

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