The Mann and Parker Lumber Company distributes and exports treated hardwood lumber from its stock of Northern Appalachian species. The company also operates the M&P Lumber Company, which kiln-dries green-hardwood lumber in Meadville, Pennsylvania (about 90 miles north of Pittsburgh), primarily for shipment to cabinet and furniture makers on the West Coast. The Mann and Parker Lumber Company was founded in Baltimore in 1902, but relocated to central Pennsylvania (New Freedom) after fire destroyed its operations in 1970. Chairman and CEO Robert Bushman Sr. owns the company.

Rogers Group is owned by the family of Ralph Rogers, who founded the company as a roadside crushing operation at the age of 19 in 1908. Rogers Group doesn't crush dreams but it sure crushes the tar out of stones. The company operates about some 60 quarries, construction facilities, and related locations in the Southeast and Midwest. With a heavy presence in Tennessee, the group produces crushed stone as well as asphalt paving, sand, gravel, and other construction materials. Rogers Group also offers highway construction and concrete masonry services. It is the nation's largest private crushed stone producer.

Synagro Technologies, Inc.,the company collects biosolids created by the treatment of wastewater at municipal and industrial plants throughout the US. Synagro Technologies makes money by drying, pelletizing, composting, and incinerating the biosolids and by transporting them for land application as soil base and fertilizer. The company also cleans out sewage lagoons and designs biosolids recycling systems. Synagro Technologies is owned by investment firm The Carlyle Group.

Granite Construction is building its way from coast to coast. The holding company operates through its main subsidiary, Granite Construction Company, a transportation and heavy construction contractor that works on public infrastructure projects ranging from airports, bridges, and dams to highways, mass transit systems, and tunnels. For private-sector firms, it performs site preparation for residential and commercial development. The company is aligned geographically into two divisions: Granite West and Granite East. One of its biggest customers is the California Department of Transportation, which accounts for around 12% of revenues. Granite also is involved in real estate development and services.

Gee Whiz! Gee Construction has wrapped its arms around a wide variety of property development projects. The company provides contracting services for commercial, leisure, public, educational, health, residential, retail, and industrial building development projects in and around London. Gee Construction also has a rail division that performs railway construction. With three offices in the UK, Gee Construction's client roster has included such businesses and public or governmental entities as the Welsh Development Agency, Downies, Eurofoods, and the London Underground.

Huurre Group's industrial sector attends to the supply of refrigeration solutions and maintenance services to industrial clients. In addition to cold rooms, typical projects include panel-structured warehouses and production facilities. The scale of deliveries ranges from panel installations to turn key solutions. We also supply clean rooms for companies operating in the pharmaceutical industry and are the world leader of cruiser cold rooms.

CTC Marine Projects is not about to hold its breath over the future strength of its business. The company is a leading specialist in trenching for subsea cables, flowlines, and pipelines, and offers installation of subsea cables and flowlines. Customers hail from the telecommunications, oil, and gas industries. CTC Marine Projects' equipment fleet is comprised of three cable ships and two supply ship, along with ploughs and trenchers. Its customers have included ExxonMobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips.

End Systems knows absolutely no end in providing a variety of services in HVAC and electrical contracting. The company primarily manages, documents, and tests the work of installers. Included among these services are creating computer-generated fitted drawings for building services and testing buildings for air tightness and water treatment. End Systems also provides energy log books to building managers to document their property energy requirements. Clients have included Bovis, AstraZeneca, and Amec. Managing director Brian Townsend started the company in 1976.

Boral Limited has a big hand in building Australia. A leading producer of building and construction materials in Australia, Boral is also a top maker of roof tiles and bricks in the US (through Boral USA) and concrete in Indonesia. Through seven divisions the company produces concrete, cement, clay products, plasterboard, windows, roof tiles, timber, and other construction-related products. Boral Limited has more than 700 locations in the US, Asia, and Australia. Construction materials sold in Australia accounts for more than half of total sales.

Lafarge S.A. produces and sells building materials under the Lafarge brand worldwide. It operates in three divisions: Cement, Aggregates and Concrete, and Gypsum. The Cement division produces and sells a range of cements and hydraulic binders, including basic Portland, masonry cements, and various other blended and specialty cements and binders for the construction industry. This division also offers technical support, ordering and logistical assistance, documentation, demonstrations, and training services relating to the use of cements, as well as engages in cement trading activities. The Aggregates and Concrete division provides hard rock, including limestone and granite; natural sand; gravel; asphalt; and pre-cast concrete products, as well as offers road contracting and surfacing services. This division also provides aggregates required for concrete, asphalt, and paving operations. The Gypsum division offers wallboard and finishing products for various applications, such as high humidity, fire retardant, water-resistant, sag-resistant, design and decoration, and high traffic areas. This division also provides gypsum plaster, plaster blocks, joint compounds, metal studs, and anhydrite binders for self-leveling floorscreeds and industrial plasters. Lafarge S.A. sells its products and services to concrete producers, precast concrete product manufacturers, contractors, builders and masons, building materials wholesalers, asphalt producers, road contractors, construction companies, general building materials distributors, wallboard specialty dealers, and lumber yards. Lafarge company, formerly known as J. et A. Pavin de Lafarge, was founded in 1833 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

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