Palm Harbor Homes, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of factory-built homes in the United States. The company manufactures a range of single and multi-section manufactured and modular homes, including ranch-style homes. It also builds single-section homes, split-level homes, cape cod style homes, and two and three story homes, as well as multi-family units, such as apartments and duplexes. In addition, the company offers conforming mortgages to the purchasers of factory-built homes sold by company-owned retail sales centers, as well as through certain independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Further, it provides property and casualty insurance, as well as extended warranties for the owners of manufactured homes. As of September 24, 2010, the company sold homes through 54 of the company-owned retail sales centers and builder locations, as well as through approximately 135 independent retail dealers, builders, and developers. Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. was founded in 1977 and is based in Addison, Texas. On November 29, 2010, Palm Harbor Homes, Inc. along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Delaware.

Walrus Projects company takes you down to Leicestershire and the surrounding area, where its projects range from 50,000 apartments to 1,000,000 country houses. With a little help from its friends, Walrus Projects uses materials and processes that range from reclaimed timber and "distressed" finishes to underheated floors. Managing director Chris Freeman began Walrus Projects in 1994, while working out of a spare bedroom at his home -- no doubt with his headphones on. Many Walrus Projects developments, such as Pepper's Field, bear Beatles-influenced names.

Severfield-Rowen Plc is a holding company for a specialist engineering group of companies that design, manufacture, and erect structural steelwork throughout the UK. Its operating subsidiaries include Severfield-Reeve Structures and Rowen Structures. The company operates the largest single production facility for the fabrication of structural steelwork in the UK. Besides fabrication and building subsidiaries, the company also provides project management of building and overseas contracts, property portfolio management, and steel trading services. One of its largest projects to date is its work on Heathrow's Terminal 5, involving 65,000 tons of steel. It is also providing steelwork for a Rolls-Royce factory.

Worksharp's portfolio is anything but limited. Worksharp constructs residences from barn conversions and retirement homes to cutting-edge luxury central-city apartments in the UK in Cheshire, Manchester, and in the suburbs of Merseyside. Featured developments include Belleair Farm, a six-property barn conversion near Kingsley, and Winckley Square, a luxury apartment development in the Preston City Centre.

BlueScope Construction (BSC). The company is the US-based construction subsidiary of Australian steel maker BlueScope Steel. BSC receives its steel materials directly from 10 BlueScope mills in the US. As a design/build general contractor, BSC plans, develops, and builds pre-engineered shells for large structures. Company divisions handle government projects and offer concrete services. BSC usually builds commercial and industrial facilities such as distribution centers, airplane hangars, arenas, manufacturing plants, offices, and warehouses. Customers have included Toys "R" Us, Best Buy, and FedEx Ground.

OPT-Sciences Corporation, through its subsidiary, O & S Research, Inc., deposits anti-glare and transparent conductive optical coatings on glass used primarily to cover instrument panels in aircraft cockpits. Its products enable pilots to read aircraft instruments in direct sunlight or at night, or in covert situations using appropriate night vision filters. The company offers coatings to various types of glass face plates, which are mounted on the front of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), cathode ray tubes, and electromechanical displays. It also provides glass cutting, grinding, and painting services, as well as manufactures wedge glass lenses for electro-mechanical displays. In addition, the company provides a range of other specialty instrument glass, including night vision filter glass, circular polarizers, touchpads, glass sandwiches for LCDs, and other custom designed specialty glass components and assemblies. It primarily offers its products to commercial, business, and regional aircraft market, as well as to the military aircraft market. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Cinnaminson, New Jersey.

Shanks Group plc,Europe's largest independent waste disposal enterprise, the company has a full range of waste management operations, including waste collection, transfer, and treatment; incineration; remediation services; hazardous chemicals treatment; and recycling. It operates 43 waste collection, transfer, treatment, incineration, and disposal sites in the UK, 35 in the Netherlands, 18 in Belgium, and one in Canada. Shanks has been working in partnership with local authorities throughout the UK, and has more than 40 municipal waste management contracts. It has similar contracts in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Oran Group (formerly The Snowie Group) provides waste-treatment and a range of other disposal services in the UK, including sludge handling and transportation and spillage cleanup. Clients include Severn Trent, Scottish Water, and the UK Ministry of Defence. The company made about £40 million during the foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001, disposing of millions of livestock carcasses. Other operations include logistics, industrial cleaning, recycling, and equipment leasing. In 2005 the Snowie Group (which began operations as a family farm in the late 1950s) was acquired by the Cork, Ireland-based Oran Group.

Robbins Manufacturing puts most of its efforts into its construction materials operations. Through its lumber group, the company supplies pressure-treated southern yellow pine, spruce, plywood, and OSB (oriented strand board) to customers including treating plants, retail yards, and truss and pallet manufacturers. The division has lumber and distribution facilities in the eastern and midwestern US and markets its products nationwide. Robbins Manufacturing also operates in other construction-related realms.

Mendocino Redwood Company thinks green when it comes to producing wood products. The company strives to restore its forests by increasing the number of trees and improving wildlife habitats, while maintaining a successful timber supply business. Established in 1998 by the Donald and Doris Fisher (founders of the clothing chain Gap), the organization manages about 228,800 acres of forestland across northern California in the Mendocino and Sonoma counties. Mendocino Redwood Company harvests about 2% of its acreage every year. In 2008 the company acquired Pacific Lumber (since renamed Humboldt Redwood), which controls about 200,000 acres of timberlands in Humboldt county, for about $550 million.

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