Entech keeps Texans cool and safe. The company, which was founded in 1981, has business units that provide air-conditioning, heating, and refrigeration equipment and services in about a half-dozen cities across the Lone Star State. Entech also offers integrated-system building automation that syncs HVAC controls, access controls, security, closed-circuit television, alarms, and other automated systems. The company keeps its systems running by offering design, installation, maintenance, and repair of HVAC and refrigeration. Other products and services include rebuilt cooling towers and HVAC and power equipment rentals.

Peckham Industries has a crush on road materials. Peckham Industries, Inc. produces asphalt, crushed stone, ready mix concrete, and liquid calcium chloride (used to melt ice in the winter and to keep road dust down in the summer). It also builds and repairs roads. Peckham Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate throughout New England with locations in New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. Peckham's plants include liquid asphalt facilities, hot mix plants, and a reclaiming facility. The company's Peckham Materials Corp. unit operates quarries and supplies aggregates through the Hudson River Valley. William Peckham, father of chairman and president John Peckham, founded Peckham Road Corp., the flagship of Peckham Industries, in 1924.

Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

Founded in 1919 in the UK, Altro Limited makes flooring and walling under brands such as AltroGrip and AltroShield for the retail, medical, and food industries, among others. In 1947 Altro Limited invented its Altro safety flooring, a sheet vinyl floor covering that promises a smooth, slip-resistant surface. To help customers understand flooring and walling issues, Altro also offers a variety of one-hour training seminars. Altro Limited distributes its products, including smooth, sports, and rubber flooring, in more than 50 countries worldwide. Whether you're walking the floors or climbing the walls, Altro is happy to have your business.

Construction aggregates supplier Luck Stone Corporation produces a wide range of crushed stone, concrete, asphalt, architectural stone, pavers, and sand and gravel products for customers throughout the mid-Atlantic US. The company has more than 15 crushed stone plants in Virginia and North Carolina, in addition to six retail architectural stone centers in those states and Maryland. It serves the construction, homebuilding, remodeling, and agricultural markets. The company also produces mulch, topsoil, and other specialty products for turf, landscaping, and sports-surfacing applications.

T. Clarke provides electrical engineering and contracting services in the UK. Its vast menu of services includes building management systems, data cabling, instrumentation, street lighting, and telephone systems. The firm and its 13 subsidiaries have taken on projects ranging from hospitals and sports arenas to railways and shopping centers for the likes of British Telecom, Financial Times, The British Land Company, the Metropolitan Police, and BUPA Hospitals, among a host of others. Tommy Clarke founded his namesake company in 1889. The company is known for its electrotechnical apprentice training program which supports hundreds of young electricians yearly.

Milgard was purchased by Masco Corporation, one of the world's largest manufacturers of brand-name consumer products for the home and family. Masco owns many admired companies within the building community, such as Delta Faucet Company, Merillat Cabinetry, Hot Spring Hot Tubs and KraftMaid Cabinetry. Masco is a leading provider of services that include the sale and installation of insulation and other building products. Through Masco, Milgard is receiving the support it needs to bring its high-quality windows and doors to more homes throughout the country.

Brooks Manufacturing makes and distributes structural wood products for the utility industry. The company primarily manufactures braces, crossarms, and framing, as well as related hardware such as nuts, bolts, washers, plates, and brackets, for electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure. It receives, dries, treats, and processes timber from Douglas fir sawmills throughout the Pacific Northwest. Brooks Manufacturing was founded as the Ralph Turner Pipe Company in 1915. The Brooks family purchased the firm in 1935 and has owned and managed it ever since.

One of the largest contractors in the southeastern US, Shelco specializes in the construction of warehouse and distribution facilities; educational, manufacturing, retail, and health care facilities; and office buildings. Repeat customers account for nearly three-quarters of Shelco's business. Not content to stay in its home state of North Carolina, the company is also active in South Carolina, Georgia, and Virgina. The company was founded in 1978 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by Charles and Edwin Shelton. The Sheltons owned the company until 2003, when they sold Shelco to six senior managers.

W.S. Bellows Construction provides construction and project management services for commercial projects in the US Southwest, primarily in Texas and Louisiana. Among the company's notable projects is work on the San Jacinto Monument near Houston in 1936. Recent projects include the renovation of River Oaks Baptist Church in Houston. Founded in Canada in 1914 by Warren S. Bellows, the company is now led by his grandson, Tom Bellows.

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