APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials. The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson.

Entech keeps Texans cool and safe. The company, which was founded in 1981, has business units that provide air-conditioning, heating, and refrigeration equipment and services in about a half-dozen cities across the Lone Star State. Entech also offers integrated-system building automation that syncs HVAC controls, access controls, security, closed-circuit television, alarms, and other automated systems. The company keeps its systems running by offering design, installation, maintenance, and repair of HVAC and refrigeration. Other products and services include rebuilt cooling towers and HVAC and power equipment rentals.

Griffon Corporation (the “Company” or “Griffon”), is a diversified management and holding company that conducts business through wholly-owned subsidiaries. Griffon oversees the operations of its subsidiaries, allocates resources among them and manages their capital structures. Griffon provides direction and assistance to its subsidiaries in connection with acquisition and growth opportunities as well as in connection with divestitures. Griffon also seeks out, evaluates and, when appropriate, will acquire additional businesses that offer potentially attractive returns on capital to further diversify itself.

MasterBrand Cabinets stands tall in the kitchen. One of the world's largest cabinetry manufacturers (as well as one of the largest in the US, after Masco), MasterBrand makes several lines of kitchen cabinets, including custom and semi-custom products, for the remodeling and new construction markets. Its brands include Aristokraft,Diamond, Kemper, and Schrock. MasterBrand makes wooden cabinetry (including maple and oak) as well as laminate-finished products. Its cabinets are sold through home centers, lumber outlets, and specialty retailers. MasterBrand is being spun off from parent Fortune Brands, which is separating its family of home, golf, and liquor businesses.

Pochin's provides services through three main business segments: construction, property, and plant. It offers building and civil engineering contracting, property development and leasing, and concrete block manufacturing services in the UK. It also offers specialist plant hire services and specialist directional drilling subcontracting. The company got its start in 1935 as a joinery in Manchester.

BBL Construction Services provides construction management and development services for public and private projects mainly in the eastern US. Serving commercial and industrial clients, local governments, schools, hotels, and hospitals, the firm offers site selection and preparation, construction, renovation and rehabilitation, and project management services. Projects have included Six Flags Great Escape Lodge, Courtyard by Marriott hotels, and headquarters for the New York State Office of the Comptroller in Albany. BBL Construction Services is part of BBL Development Group, an ensemble of diversified real estate development firms. Founded in 1973, the company has offices in Albany, New York and Columbus, Ohio.

Knife River Corporation. The company mines aggregates and markets raw construction materials including crushed stone, gravel, and sand. Other construction materials include asphalt, liquid asphalt cement, and ready-mix concrete. Knife River has operations in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. The company also provides such integrated construction services as site development, highway construction, and wind farm construction in the central and western US, including Alaska and Hawaii. Knife River is a subsidiary of MDU Resources .

Joseph R. Loring & Associates provides mechanical and electrical engineering services. Its specialties also include heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, fire protection, and telecommunications installations for commercial and institutional building projects. The company has worked on office buildings, apartments, prisons, airports, schools, research facilities, and museums. Also doing business as Loring Engineers, it operates from offices in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, but has worked on projects as far away as Australia and China. Joseph R. Loring & Associates was established in 1956.

Rocky Top Building Products produces pressure-treated lumber and engineered wood for residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, marine, and recreational applications. The company's products include dimension lumber, decking boards, railing, beams, lattice, and related fastening systems. The company operates facilities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and sells its products to professional builders and do-it-yourselfers through dealers in about a dozen northeastern and mid-Atlantic states. A wholly owned subsidiary of the Franklin Group, Rocky Top was established in 1977.

Lafarge Cement UK, a subsidiary of Paris-based Lafarge, pours it on the competition. With about 6 cement plants located throughout the UK, the company supplies about 40% of the country's market. Major products include Portland cements and Portland composite cements, high performance cements (heat resistant, sulfate resistant, rapid setting), and special cements (shrinkage compensated concrete, granulated blast furnace slag, pulverized fuel ash, and Portland-slag cement). It also produces plasterboard. Lafarge made it big in the UK when it acquired Blue Circle Industries in 2001; Lafarge Cement UK still uses the Blue Circle name to sell its cement.

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