Founded in 1928, Apasco was acquired in full by Swiss cement giant Holcim in 2004. Holcim Apasco has some pretty concrete ideas for its customers. The company makes cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates for distribution throughout Mexico and the Caribbean. It also sells chemical additives and provides related technology services to distributors and other commercial customers. Holcim Apasco operates more than 130 concrete plants, distribution centers, aggregate plants, and maritime terminals in its home country and in Central America.

Rugged? Good-looking? Talented? Nolte Associates is not just another pretty face. The firm provides a variety of engineering, management, and construction services. Nolte specializes in civil infrastructure, designing transportation systems (bridges, freeways, light rail) and water systems (flood control, recycling, wastewater facilities). Other specialized services include mapping, land development, surveying, and construction management. Nolte has about a dozen offices in the Southwest US and in Mexico. George Nolte Sr. established the firm in 1949. Engineering firm Vertical V acquired control of Nolte in 2010.

McFarland Cascade company produces wood and composite products including pressure-treated utility poles, crossarms, lumber, and plywood. McFarland Cascade also packages and distributes consumer-oriented outdoor living products and develops computer software packages for assisting consumers in designing, estimating, and constructing such outdoor projects as decks. The company sells to customers in the US, Canada, the Middle East, and Asia, and operates four treating facilities in the Northwest and Mississippi. A third-generation of McFarlands, CEO Corry McFarland and EVP Greg McFarland, control the company, which was founded in 1916.

Timber Truss Housing Systems, Inc. was founded in 1960 by W.A. James, who is still active in our daily operations. Timber Truss was one of the first fabricators of wood trusses back in the sixties and continues to introduce innovative products and technologies today. The present location, at 525 McClelland Street, Salem, Virginia, has office and manufacturing space of approximately 132,200 square feet and additional lumber storage facilities of about 22,300 square feet, on a 60 acre site.

Thomas Concrete Industries, Inc. is one Georgia's largest producers of ready-mix concrete. Its products are used for commercial and residential projects and include high-strength, colored, exposed aggregate, and architectural concrete. The company operates about 50 plants in its home state and in North and South Carolina; it also has a fleet of mixer trucks. Thomas Concrete Industries is owned by Thomas Concrete Group AB, a Swedish conglomerate which also includes Fardig Betong and Thomas Beton. For Thomas Concrete Industries, the strength is in the mix.

MODEC (Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co.) keeps sea vessels floating and oil and gas flowing. The company is a global general contractor that specializes in the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of floating production systems for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include storage vessels, offloading vessels, tension leg platforms, semi-submersibles, and mobile production units. It also offers vessel leasing and chartering; operation and maintenance services; and spare parts supply and aftersales support. Customers include Petrobras and BP. Founded in 1968, MODEC is controlled by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.

Therma Corporation is a mechanical contractor that specializes in the design, installation, and service of piping systems for the transmission of fluids and gasses. The company also designs and manufactures air-conditioning systems, duct systems, and clean rooms. It serves commercial, industrial, and biomedical concerns in Northern California. President Joe Parisi and CFO Nicki Parisi co-founded the company in 1967 to serve the burgeoning semiconductor and biomedical industries in the San Francisco Bay area. Its clients have included Intel, Varian, Texas Instruments, and Hewlett-Packard.

Oldcastle Materials, Inc. is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete, and construction and paving services in the United States. Our operations span the nation from Montana to Texas and from Washington to Florida. We’re local to the customers and communities that depend on our materials, yet we deliver the best practice standards and efficiencies of a company with a national presence. Oldcastle Materials has 18,000 employees at more than 1,400 operations in 44 states and generated over $6 billion in revenues in 2009. Towns have grown up around our operations, using Oldcastle products to fuel their growth. Our expansion is steady and strategic to meet the nation’s needs for new roadways, facilities and other infrastructure.

Lafarge Malayan Cement makes and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, and other building materials. Its cement products include masonry, blastfurnace, pulverized-fly ash, and sulphate-resisting Portland cement. Lafarge Malayan Cement is the largest cement producer in Malaysia with a market share of some 45%; it has three cement plants, about a dozen sales offices, one grinding plant, one dry-mix plant, and five terminals throughout the country. Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd began in 1950 as Malayan Cement, a subsidiary of the UK's Blue Circle Industries. In 2001 the French firm Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, purchased Blue Circle.

Teng & Associates was founded by Dr. Wayne Teng in 1959 as a structural engineering firm. It provides architectural and engineering design, planning, and construction management services for several markets, including corporate, health care, and telecommunications. It operates through several subsidiaries: Teng Development provides due diligence, site and project planning, and feasibility and cost studies. Teng Construction provides design-build services. The Technology Group provides engineering and design services. Teng has offices in the Midwest, California, Colorado, New York, Texas, and Virginia.

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