The firm was founded by Scottish-born Henry Alexander, grandfather of chairman and CEO Patrick Alexander. Cold Spring Granite has been chipping away as a granite business since the late 1800s. The company operates about 30 granite quarries and five fabrication facilities in Canada and the US that produce 1.5 million net cube of granites per year for commercial, residential, and institutional use. Its granite products include floor tiles, countertop slabs, paving materials, and exterior building blocks; its Memorialization division makes upright monuments, bronze markers, urns, bases, and mausoleums. Cold Spring's granite can be found in national monuments, cemeteries, and the columns of Minnesota's state capitol.

Bowmer & Kirkland Limited group offers commercial and residential construction, civil engineering, and property development services. It specializes in supermarkets (Tesco) and other retail projects (Primark) throughout the UK, as well as office, educational, industrial, health care, and hospitality projects. The family-run, privately-owned Bowmer & Kirkland was founded in 1923 by the grandfather of chairman John Kirkland. Among its businesses are units for structural steelwork fabrication, industrial roofing and cladding systems, HVAC control systems, mechanical and engineering services, and interiors and decorating.

Recycled from the former Kaiser Steel, Kaiser Ventures oversees recycling and solid waste investments. The company's holdings include an 83.1% stake in Mine Reclamation Corporation (MRC) and a 50% stake in West Valley Materials Recovery Facility and Transfer Station, which separates waste materials for recycling or storage. Through MRC, the company has turned Kaiser Steel's iron-ore mining pits into a rail-accessible solid waste landfill at Eagle Mountain in the California desert; it has agreed to sell the landfill to County District No. 2 of Los Angeles County. However, lawsuits from local residents have blocked the deal. Kaiser Ventures is owned mainly by former creditors of Kaiser Steel.

Wood-Mode Incorporated company manufactures custom cabinets for the kitchen, bathroom, and other areas of the home. The company offers a range of styles, wood selections (cherry, maple, oak, and pine), more than 85 standard wood finish colors, hardware, laminates, and mouldings for its customized cabinetry. It can also customize unique finishes to customer specifications. The company sells its products under the Wood-Mode and Brookhaven names at showrooms in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. Wood-Mode has been in business since the 1940s.

Cabral Roofing & Waterproofing has them covered. The company offers roofing installation, maintenance, and repair services for mostly commercial buildings in Southern California. Its clients include architects and engineers, churches, government facilities, hospitals, industrial operators, school districts, and universities. Clients have included Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Pepsi, County of Los Angeles, and UCLA. Founded in 1997, Cabral Roofing & Waterproofing is owned by president Andrew Cabral and the Cabral family.

Ash Grove Cement is a pioneer in the US cement industry. Tracing its roots back to 1882, the company is one of the largest cement manufacturers in North America. Ash Grove Cement's products include portland and masonry cements used in roads, bridges, and buildings, as well as ready-mix concrete. The company operates nine plants with an annual capacity of some 9 million tons of cement; it also operates aggregate quarries in the US and Canada and a lime plant in Oregon. Other operations include Ash Grove Packaging, which offers packaged materials such as sealers and additives, caulks, and stucco. Lester T. Sunderland joined Ash Grove Cement in 1909; his heirs own the company.

RPM International Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of various specialty chemical products to industrial and consumer markets worldwide. The company operates through two segments, Industrial and Consumer. The Industrial segment offers sealants and institutional roofing systems, basement waterproofing sealants, and roofing maintenance and related services; joint sealing tapes, flashing tapes, cartridge sealants and adhesives, strips, foils and accessories, polymer flooring systems, tile systems, and fiberglass reinforced plastic gratings and shapes; heavy-duty corrosion-control coatings, fireproofing products, and containment linings; and textured finish coats, sealers, and variegated-aggregate finishes.

A unit of Parsons Corporation, Parsons Commercial Technology Group (PARCOMM) provides project management, engineering, construction, design, maintenance, and related services for industrial and commercial projects. The company's clients include firms in the telecommunications, health care, manufacturing, defense, petroleum, and chemical industries. PARCOMM also completes projects for schools, colleges, and government entities. Specialized services include industrial environmental remediation, factory modernization, and developing state vehicle inspection and compliance programs. PARCOMM operates throughout the US and the world.

John Portman & Associates (Portman) casts a long shadow, and some of its buildings do, too. The company is the architectural arm of major private developer Portman Holdings; Portman specializes in the construction of such commercial and public projects as hotels, office buildings, mixed-use properties, and universities. Clients include Bank of China, City of Atlanta, and Daewoo. Support services include master planning, programming, and structural engineering. The company is active throughout the US and in China; it has also undertaken projects in other parts of Asia and in Europe and Africa. Portman was founded by John Portman in 1953. He and his family continue to lead the company.

Holloman isn't the stuff of poetry, but rather the Texas oil patch. Employee-owned Holloman installs, repairs, and upgrades pipelines for the oil and gas industry, public and private utilities that handle water and wastewater, and sports facilities. Holloman also builds or upgrades gas compressor stations, petroleum processing plants, and utility pump stations. The company's in-house engineering staff designs and constructs process plants for its oil and gas clients; it also seeks out civil, mechanical, or process jobs. Subsidiary Holloman Minerals explores for minerals including uranium in Australia. Sam Holloman founded the company in 1967.

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