Zachry Company nearly 85 years ago with dirt-moving mules, rented equipment and a bridge project in Laredo, Texas. Founded by Texas A&M University graduate, Henry Bartell “Pat” Zachry, our company is still family-owned and privately held. Our success is based on the work ethic and integrity of our dedicated employees.

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.

Straight Line Industries (SLI) is bound to leave a mark ... with traffic paints, epoxy, preformed tapes, and raised markers. The contractor installs pavement markings on asphalt and concrete surfaces, including highways, parking lots, airports, running tracks, and playgrounds. SLI can replicate mascots and logos for schools and businesses, and strip special items such as helicopter landing pads for hospitals and safety markings for warehouses and fire houses. It also distributes solar-powered signs. SLI mainly operates in New York, but also in New Jersey and Massachusetts, providing services to heavy/highway construction contractors and paving companies. President Pilar Dexter founded SLI in 1993.

Clear Lake Lumber is well known for its hardwood. Clear Lake Lumber, a family-owned business, produces hardwood lumber products from species that include white oak, red oak, hard maple, soft maple, ash, beech, hickory, black walnut, poplar, cherry, and more. Clear Lake Lumber distributes its products to clients worldwide. The company promotes sustainable forestry practices and offers logging and timberland management services. Clear Lake Lumber was founded in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania in 1973 and began the business by selling only green lumber.

Kullman Buildings Corp. traces its roots to 1927, when Sam Kullman started a modular-building business to create prefabricated diners. As the popularity of the roadside eateries waned, the company morphed into building products for new markets. Kullman now makes prefabricated housing, prisons, schools, banks, equipment enclosures, offices, bathrooms, and even US embassies in places such as Turkmenistan. Kullman Industries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2005 after a contract to build an embassy in Tajikistan went sour. The company emerged from bankruptcy as Kullman Buildings in 2006, when it was bought by entrepreneur Avi Telyas.

ATC Group Services Inc., helps clients design and execute large-scale projects that can have a variety of construction, environmental, health, safety, and technical applications. The firm, which does business as ATC Associates, often can coordinate services to save money. (ATC stands for Assess, Test, and Consult). Companies in the petroleum, health care, construction, retail, and government sectors have used ATC Associates to plan the removal of mold and asbestos, the treatment of sewage, and the proper testing of construction and construction materials. The company operates from some 65 offices in 36 states in the US.

Superior Ready Mix Concrete, with more than 20 plants throughout Southern California, traces its roots to a concrete batch plant that was incorporated by Jack Brouwer in 1959 as Escondido Ready Mix Concrete, Inc. Superior Ready Mix Concrete continues to be family owned. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's strives to make its lowly products top-of-the-heap. Superior Ready Mix Concrete provides concrete, aggregates, and asphalt products for contractors and homeowners. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's products also include block, decorative rock, sand, tools, and other building materials for small and large-scale projects. Superior also sells used paving equipment and trucks. Its paving division resurfaces roads and highways around California.

Howard Building provides preconstruction, design/build, engineering, construction, and management services primarily for commercial projects throughout California. The company's portfolio includes projects ranging from corporate, legal, and financial buildings to entertainment, showroom, and high-tech facilities. Clients include BAE Systems, Trammell Crow, Deutsche Bank, The Endeavor Agency, Fox Television, and Pacific Investment Management Company. Howard Building, founded in 1983, maintains offices in greater Los Angeles and Orange County, California.

Chas Roberts isn't just the name on the door. Chas and Alice Roberts founded Chas Roberts Air Conditioning in 1942. The business has been family owned and operated since day one.Prior to founding the business, Chas worked as a serviceman for the local utility. In the early years, sales consisted of home appliances, coolers, furnaces, air conditioners and service. In the 50s and 60s, the company grew doing retrofits of houses with coolers to air conditioners, new installs in custom and tract homes and light commercial air conditioning. Chas Robert's son, Chuck, took over managing the company in the 60s and provided the vision for future growth.

Penta-Ocean Construction isn't all pent up along the waterfront, although it does specialize in such marine engineering projects as dredging and land reclamation, including some environmental protection (it has developed an eelgrass transplantation process). The company's civil engineering unit also constructs airports and container terminals as well as dams, bridges, and highways. Work by its architecture unit includes concert halls, aquariums, office towers, and condominiums. Its environmental technology division builds wind power stations and recycling facilities. The company also has research and development operations for all of its divisions.

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