Coleman Floor doesn't mind if you walk all over it. The company sells and installs a variety of flooring products, including carpet, ceramic tile, vinyl, stone, and hardwood. It has expertise in classic and exotic hardwoods and sources its materials from companies including Anderson Hardwood, Armstrong, and Mannington. The company serves residential builders and homeowners in the Midwest and Southeast; services include consultation and design. Coleman Floor was established in 1947 and acquired by national materials supplier Stock Building Supply in 2006.

Urata & Sons is a solidly established provider of concrete contracting services including slab and curb and gutter work. The firm focuses on large scale tilt-up buildings, parking structures, schools, hospitals, public works projects, multi-family residences, and other commercial ventures, including malls, casinos and resorts, and industrial complexes. Most of its projects are in California and Nevada. Urata & Sons' customers include high-profile contractors DPR Construction, Turner Construction, and The Walsh Group. The company was started in 1974 by Sofio Urata and his sons, Charles and Frank, who began by paving residential patios and driveways.

Lastar is the parent company of two main operating units, Cables To Go and Quiktron, that provide cabling and connectivity products and services to computer, audio/video, electrical, and industrial distributors.

Graeber Simmons & Cowan (GS&C) provides architectural design services that include master planning, interior design, and product design. The company also provides move coordination services. Its clients include Sun Microsystems, Applied Materials, and The University of Texas. GS&C operates throughout the world. President and CEO Al Simmons is a founding principal of the company, which was established in 1978.

Formed by Charles Shelly in 1938, the company was acquired in 2000 for $362 million by Oldcastle Materials, a unit of Ireland-based CRH. The acquisition helped boost Shelly's growth and now it produces nearly 9 million tons of asphalt each year. The Shelly Company has only scratched the surface of the road paving business. The company, which produces aggregates and asphalt for road surfacing, operates several aggregate facilities and asphalt plants in Ohio. Operations include quarries, sand and gravel pits, fixed and portable asphalt plants, and bitumen terminals. The Shelly Company is also a paving and road construction contractor. Other divisions manufacture cement and and ready mix concrete.

Layne Christensen Company and its subsidiaries provide drilling and construction services and related products to the water infrastructure and mineral exploration markets. The company’s Water Infrastructure division provides water and wastewater related services and products, including soil stabilization, hydrological studies, site selection, well design, drilling and well development, pump installation, and well rehabilitation. This division also designs and constructs water and wastewater treatment facilities; and provides filter media and membranes to treat volatile organics and other contaminants, such as nitrates, iron, manganese, arsenic, radium, and radon in groundwater, as well as offers environmental drilling services to assess and monitor groundwater contaminants. Layne Christensen Company’s Mineral Exploration division provides a range of drilling services for the mineral exploration industry. It offers aboveground and underground drilling services, which include various phases of core drilling, diamond, reverse circulation, dual tube, hammer, and rotary air-blast methods. The company’s Energy division focuses on the exploration and production of unconventional gas properties primarily in the mid-continent region of the United States. As of January 31, 2010, it had 586 net producing wells. Additionally, Layne Christensen Company offers specialty energy services. The company provides its services to municipalities, investor-owned water utilities, industrial companies, mining companies, consulting and engineering firms, heavy civil construction contractors, oil and gas companies, and agribusiness. It has operations in the United States, Australia, Africa, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Italy, and South America. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Mission Woods, Kansas.

Caprius, Inc., through its subsidiary, M.C.M. Environmental Technologies, Inc., engages in the infectious medical waste disposal business in the United States and internationally. It develops, markets, and sells SteriMed and SteriMed Junior compact systems that shred and chemically disinfect regulated medical waste, including sharps, dialysis filters, pads, bandages, plastic tubing, and glass utilizing Ster-Cid, a biodegradable disinfectant solution. The company markets its products to dialysis clinics, surgical centers, laboratories, plasmapheresis centers, and hospitals, as well as blood banks, cruise ships, and military medical facilities directly, as well as through distributors. Caprius was founded in 1983 and is based in Paramus, New Jersey.

Fitzpatrick & Weller produces and sells kiln-dried hardwood lumber and wood components for furniture, cabinetry, and staircase applications. It also makes musical instrument parts, snowboards, cutting boards, table tops, game boards, and other items. The company uses hardwood species that include ash, hard and soft maple, cherry, basswood, red and white oak, and poplar. It exports up to 50% of its production. Fitzpatrick & Weller began operations in 1892.

Huggy Bear's Cupboards is all about creating that warm kitchen glow. The company custom handcrafts wood kitchen and bath cabinets from its 65,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Portland, Oregon. Its products include Hayden Bay cabinets with solid wood face frames and overlay or inset doors, Shoreline frameless cabinets, and such accessories as roll-out can racks to make narrow cabinets more functional, warming oven drawers, and recycling bins. Huggy Bear's wood is supplied by an on-site lumber broker. The company has been building cabinets for more than 25 years.

Batson-Cook is well prepped in commercial construction. The firm offers general contracting, construction management, program management, and design/build services throughout the Southeastern US. It has worked on a wide variety of projects, including aerospace facilities, courtrooms, hospitals, hotels, industrial plants, offices, parking structures, places of worship, retail stores, and schools. Clients have included Lockheed Martin, Target, and the University of Tampa. Batson-Cook began in West Point, Georgia, in 1915. It operates from a handful of regional offices in Georgia and Florida. Construction and development firm Kajima U.S.A. acquired Batson-Cook in 2008.

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