Darlington Veneer Company mills and distributes hardwood plywood products to boat builders, cabinet and furniture makers, millwork manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and others from its plant in Darlington, South Carolina. It sells more than 20 varieties of wood in half round, plain sliced, rotary cut, rift, and quartered cuts. Prospective customers can request price quotes through the company's Web site. Darlington Veneer, founded in 1918, is owned by the Ramsey family, including president John Ramsey and secretary Jim Ramsey. The Ramseys also own Diamond Hill Plywood.

T. Clarke provides electrical engineering and contracting services in the UK. Its vast menu of services includes building management systems, data cabling, instrumentation, street lighting, and telephone systems. The firm and its 13 subsidiaries have taken on projects ranging from hospitals and sports arenas to railways and shopping centers for the likes of British Telecom, Financial Times, The British Land Company, the Metropolitan Police, and BUPA Hospitals, among a host of others. Tommy Clarke founded his namesake company in 1889. The company is known for its electrotechnical apprentice training program which supports hundreds of young electricians yearly.

MasTec, Inc. operates as a specialty contractor in the United States. It involves in the building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of utility and communications infrastructure. The company builds wind farms, solar farms, and underground and overhead distribution systems, such as trenches, conduits, cable, power lines, and pipelines, which provide wireless and wireline communications, electrical power generation and delivery, and natural gas, crude oil, and refined products transport. It also installs buried and aerial fiber optic cables, coaxial cables, copper lines, electrical and other energy distribution systems, transmission systems, and satellite dishes, as well as deploys and manages network connections. In addition, MasTec offers regular maintenance of distribution facilities and networks, as well as provides emergency services for accidents or storm damage. It serves utility, communications, and government customers. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

Carrier shoulders the load of keeping things hot and cold. Carrier Corporation is the world's largest maker of heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration systems for residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation needs. Through Carrier Transicold, it makes truck/trailer and container refrigeration equipment and provides transport air-conditioning systems for bus, rail, and marine customers. Carrier also provides aftermarket services and components for its products. The company is a subsidiary of diversified manufacturer United Technologies Corporation (UTC); it accounts for about 20% of UTC's sales. Carrier operates around 50 manufacturing facilities and has dealers in more than 170 countries.

International Computer Appliances Corporation (which does business as ICA Corporation) is a contract manufacturer that makes custom metal component parts for analytical instrumentation, aerospace, medical equipment, and other products. The company provides sheet metal fabrication and laser cutting, precision machining, custom enclosures, and chassis assemblies. ICA Corporation also offers value-added services, from assembling medical diagnostic devices with multi-language software to packaging custom kits and inventory management. Its manufacturing facility takes up 60,000 sq. ft. in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis. ICA Corporation, which was founded in 1970, is employee-owned.

Kingspan is busy spreading its wingspan in the energy-efficient and insulation building materials business. The company is also a top supplier of raised flooring. Other products include steel and wooden frames, rigid building insulation, insulated cladding panels, and structural products. Kingspan also makes environmental containers such as rainwater collection systems and oil, water, and septic tanks. The company operates mainly in Europe, but also has facilities in Asia and North America. Kingspan has grown through numerous acquisitions, including its 2011 purchase of CRH's European insulation business.

AUREA is Europe's #1 recycler of motor oil, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics, and used rubber wheels and tires. Eco Huile, from its plant in northern France, recycles 45% of the country's waste oil. Belgian subsidiary Rulo NV is part of Europe's plan to recycle 200,000 tons of PVC by 2010, while ROLL GOM makes wheels and tires from recycled rubber, processing 50 tons of rubber every day. Through direct and indirect holdings, CEO Joel Picard controls half of the company. AUREA has been listed on the Paris Stock Exchange since the 19th century.

NCI has become one of the largest integrated manufacturers and marketers of metal coil coating solutions, metal components and custom metal building systems for the non-residential construction industry in North America. Product innovation, organic growth and numerous strategic and highly advantageous acquisitions have led to the continued development of this successful organization. In 1992 NCI joined NASDAQ and by 1998 NCI moved to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it remains today as “NCS” under the name NCI Building Systems, Inc.

HeidelbergCement AG has operations in 40 countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. Subsidiary Hanson is a top building materials company in the UK. HeidelbergCement believes in concrete results. The company is one of the world's leading producers of cement and clinker (more than 100 million tons annually), and concrete; it is the largest cement producer in Germany. Cement, concrete, and aggregates together account for more than 90% of the company's sales. HeidelbergCement also has group services which manage fossil fuels and electricity for its operations and trade internationally in cement and clinker (an intermediate product used to make portland cement).

Metwood, Inc. is a publicly traded company (OTCBB-MTWD). Founded in 1993, our products are engineered to combine the strength of steel and the fastening advantages of wood. Metwood's innovations have revolutionized the residential and commercial markets. Our fully staffed design and engineering department is equipped with the latest technology and software, designing products that are setting the standards of tomorrow.

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