CraftMaster Manufacturing, Inc. company makes doors and related products in various colors, finishes, and styles for the residential, commercial, and industrial markets. Its interior doors are marketed under the CraftMaster name. It also makes treated exterior composite trim under the MiraTEC brand. Treated exterior panels are sold under the Extira name. The company maintains manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, Illinois, and Texas. CraftMaster products are sold around the world through retailers, distributors, and dealers. The company is owned by T.M. Cobb Companies and Woodgrain Millwork.

California Coastal Communities. Through operating subsidiaries Hearthside Homes and Signal Landmark, the company builds homes and develops residential communities in Southern California. Long wrapped up in a battle over land development rights, California Coastal Communities has begun development of its Brightwater project, some 215 acres (about half of which is undevelopable land) situated near important wetlands in Bolsa Chica, the last undeveloped strip of coastal property in Orange County. Besides the controversial parcels, the company has homebuilding operations in Los Angeles County. California Coastal Communities filed for voluntary reorganization under Chapter 11 in 2009.

Portage Environmental helps carry the load for customers needing environmental engineering services. The firm's offerings include environmental remediation, process and project engineering, and decontamination and decommissioning services. Portage Environmental counts US government agencies (such as the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy) and Native American tribes among its clients, and has conducted projects in 20 US states, as well as in Afghanistan, Guam, Iraq, Japan, Kuwait, Qatar, and South Korea. The firm operates from some two dozen offices throughout the US. President and CEO Michael Spry helped found Portage Environmental in 1992.

Black & Veatch Ltd. engineering firm provides consulting, refurbishment, and decommissioning services for water-related projects in Europe. A subsidiary of Black & Veatch Holding, the group provides design and management of dams, pipelines, canals, water/wastewater and industrial water treatment plants, as well as the refurbishment of water and wastewater industry structures and facilities. Black & Veatch Water Europe also provides mechanical and electrical engineering design services, building design and project management services, and IT services.

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.

Thomas Armstrong has muscled its way into being one of the leading aggregates producers in the UK. Thomas Armstrong Holdings Ltd. also makes custom joinery, concrete blocks, and prestressed concrete (flooring, stairs, and panels) and operates a general construction business (residential, commercial, and industrial) and a timber division. Thomas Armstrong, a joiner, cabinetmaker, and wheelwright, founded the business in 1830. A century later the firm converted to a limited company. It has grown through acquisitions of companies such as ACP (Concrete) Ltd., William Rainford Holdings, Barnett's, Robinson's Concrete, and Tayban Developments. Thomas Armstrong has about 15 locations across the UK.

NTD Architects (also known as NTD Architecture) provides architectural, engineering, and interior design services in the western US. It specializes in health care, educational facilities, and public sector projects, though it has also managed industrial, recreational, and corporate projects. Services offered include facility planning and programming, digital graphics, master planning, design/build, and construction management. The firm also provides support services such as strategic consultation and funding assistance. NTD Architecture has seven offices in California and Arizona. The company was founded as Neptune Thomas Associates in 1953.

Canfor has a can-do attitude about forest products. One of Canada's largest lumber companies, Canfor mainly produces softwood lumber, but also plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), remanufactured lumber products, and specialized wood products at some 30 facilities in Canada and the US. Each year Canfor is capable of turning out five billion board feet of lumber, 270 million sq. ft of plywood, and one billion sq. ft. of OSB. It manages woodlands on public lands in British Columbia and Alberta and has annual harvesting rights on about 11 million cubic meters of timberland. The company also owns a slight majority of Canfor Pulp Limited Partnership, which produces pulp and kraft paper.

High Industries is at the top of its game, and that game is steel and construction. The company's largest division, High Steel Structures, is one of the largest steel bridge fabricators in North America. Other members of the High Industries' stable of companies include High Steel Service Center (metal processing and distribution), High Concrete Group (precast concrete components), and High Safety Consulting Services (air quality and safety). Affiliates of High Industries, such as High Hotels, are active in the real estate business. High Industries, which mostly does business along the East Coast, traces its roots to a welding shop founded by Sanford High in 1931. The company is controlled by the High family.

LCS Constructors helps create the space for corporations' high-tech and scientific discovery. With thousands of lab projects under its belt, LCS Constructors specializes in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of laboratories and technical facilities throughout the West, Southeast, and Gulf Coast regions of the US. The firm's clients have included ARCO Aluminum, Exxon Mobile, and McDonald's. LCS Constructors was established in 1980.

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