CEMEX de Puerto Rico makes cement in Puerto Rico. Shocking, but true. Formerly Puerto Rican Cement Company (PRCC), the company operates a cement plant and about 20 ready-mix facilities, an aggregates quarry, and two land distribution centers in Puerto Rico. CEMEX de Puerto Rico serves cement customers throughout the island, but its ready-mix operations are concentrated in the eastern part of the island; it has an installed capacity of about 1.2 million tons a year. Its parent company, Mexico-based giant CEMEX, operates primarily in North America and Europe, but has customers throughout the world.

Energy Maintenance Services Group I (EMS) is a one-stop shop for pipeline services in North America. The company's service offerings include compressor and meter station construction, corrosion surveying, environmental analysis, pipeline laying, and repair to major oil and gas producers, pipeline operators, local distribution companies, and independent power and utility operators in the US, Canada, and Mexico. It also operates and maintains about 25 pipelines and facilities throughout the US. Additionally, it supplies products such as valves and fittings and high-performance materials that help strengthen or protect pipes. Founded in 2003, EMS is one of the fastest growing privately-held companies in Houston.

Penspen Integrity works hard to make sure the oil and gas industry operates unimpaired. A business unit of the Penspen Group, the company offers comprehensive pipeline engineering integrity reviews and related support services with a focus on pipeline infrastructure. The pipeline engineering consultancy additionally provides services such as corrosion and cathodic protection advice and field support, pigging data analysis, pipeline defect assessment, and pipeline risk analysis and management. Penspen clients include Conoco, BP, Chevron, and Amoco.

Ambuja Cements even sells its excess power capacity to the local government. All that energy goes to its five plants that produce some 19 million tons of cement per year. Ambuja operates three cement terminals and, with a fleet of about 10 ships, is India's largest cement exporter. Holcim owns some 48% of Ambuja Cements, which was founded as Gujarat Ambuja Cements in 1983. Ambuja Cements sits on a solid foundation of cost control. Ambuja Cements Limited, which claims energy efficiency as its competitive edge in a power-hungry industry, generates its own electricity from bio-waste (rice husks, wood chips, sugarcane waste) and purchases inexpensive coal and fuel oil from overseas.

Williams Scotsman, Inc. develops, leases, sells, and manages mobile offices, storage containers, and related structures for the public and commercial markets in North America. Customers include government agencies, schools, and hospitals. The company maintains a fleet of some 100,000 offices, portable classrooms, and storage units, which it leases through a network of about 80 branch locations. Formed through the 1990 merger of Williams Mobile Offices and Scotsman Manufacturing, Williams Scotsman is part of Algeco Scotsman (along with European counterparts Algeco and Elliott). It was acquired by UK fund manager TDR Capital in 2007.

Environmental consulting and management firm Holguin, Fahan & Associates offers services such as assessment, characterization, remediation, and reclamation of contaminated sites. Staff members include engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, and planners. The firm operates primarily in California and Arizona; it also does business in Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas. Holguin, Fahan & Associates was founded in 1982.

Howard S. Wright Construction Co. got its start in the state of Washington and today offers design/build, general contracting, and construction management services across the Western US, including Alaska and Hawaii. The firm specializes in commercial, industrial, and institutional projects both small and large, ranging from $5,000 to $50 million. It has worked on Seattle's Space Needle and the Phoenix International Raceway, as well as apartments, hospitals, hotels, office buildings, parking garages, retail centers, schools, and aerospace and high-tech facilities. The management-owned company was founded in 1885 by, you guessed it, Howard S. Wright.

Soave Enterprises is suave enough to manage multiple lines of business. The company's wide-ranging interests are divided into four main industries: real estate (residential and industrial development), auto dealerships, beer distribution, and a catch-all diversified holdings group that includes businesses ranging from waste collection and transportation to scrap metals processing as well as units engaged in hydroponic tomato gardening and taxi services. The bulk of Soave's operations are in Michigan. President and CEO Anthony Soave, who founded the company in 1961, owns Soave Enterprises.

Flatiron Construction Corp. company, which has regional offices throughout the US and western Canada, provides transportation construction and civil engineering services for major bridge, highway and rail projects. Flatiron splits its work among divisons: Canadian, Intermountain, Western, and Heavy Civil. Its E.E. Cruz subsidiary provides heavy civil construction in the Northeast. Flatiron has worked on such projects as California's Carquinez Suspension Bridge, the John James Audubon Bridge in Louisiana, and the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge. Founded in 1947, the company is a part Germany's HOCHTIEF.

Sabanci Holding and HeidelbergCement equally share about 80% of Akcansa, which was founded in 1996. Akcansa Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret hopes you get stuck with them. The company produces about 16 million tons of cement and clinker each year from more than 40 plants and processing facilities in the Marmara, Aegean, and Black Sea regions of Turkey. Its products include cement, ready mix concrete (sold as Bentonsa), and concrete aggregates (sold as Agregasa). Akcansa also offers ship loading services at the ports of canakkale and Ambarli. Its subsidiary Karcimsa combines slag (a process byproduct) with clinker to produce slag cement.

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