Clarion Bathware is a good place to start if you want to cry, "take me away, Calgon." The company manufactures gel-coated fiberglass and acrylic products such as assisted-living shower and tub models, whirlpools, shower stalls, and soaker tubs. The company markets and sells its products through an extensive network of sales representatives to supply houses, plumbing contractors, builders, and remodeling customers. Clarion Bathware was founded in 1973.

Rogers Group is owned by the family of Ralph Rogers, who founded the company as a roadside crushing operation at the age of 19 in 1908. Rogers Group doesn't crush dreams but it sure crushes the tar out of stones. The company operates about some 60 quarries, construction facilities, and related locations in the Southeast and Midwest. With a heavy presence in Tennessee, the group produces crushed stone as well as asphalt paving, sand, gravel, and other construction materials. Rogers Group also offers highway construction and concrete masonry services. It is the nation's largest private crushed stone producer.

Pernix Group (formerly Telesource International) provides engineering and construction services and operates independent power generation projects in the Pacific region and in the US. The group offers project development and management, specialized construction and engineering, and utility and plant operations. It also brokers goods and services. While its previous focus had been on Fiji and other islands in the Pacific, Pernix Group has shifted its business model to emphasize offering construction services and working on power plant projects in North America. Kuwait-based civil, electrical, and mechanical group Sayed Hamid Behbehani & Sons controls 97% of the company.

Ridgeons Group has high hopes for supplying timber and other building materials for customers in the East Anglia region of the UK. The company distributes such products as bathroom and kitchen supplies, flooring, paint, plumbing products, and power tools. Ridgeons also rents equipment, including cement mixers, garden machinery, and basic carpentry implements. Founded in 1911, the company serves the construction and home improvement markets from its some 20 branch locations.

Judlau Contracting takes on hefty jobs that help keep New York City hustling and bustling. One of eight firms under The Judlau Companies group banner, Judlau Contracting specializes in heavy construction and large public works projects primarily around the New York metropolitan area and northeastern US. It builds bridges, mass transit tunnels, roads, underground utility stations, and wastewater treatment plants. The general contractor also has expertise in electrical work and environmental remediation. Major clients have included Consolidated Edison, New York State Department of Transportation, and Verizon. Spanish construction group OHL acquired a majority of Judlau in late 2010.

Dynamic Systems, Inc. (DSI) is dynamite with pipes. The company fixes and installs plumbing and exhaust systems (without blowing them to bits). The mechanical contractor specializes in HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), plumbing, and sanitary and exhaust piping projects for facilities including cleanrooms, hospitals, high-rise office buildings, and industrial plants. Biopharmaceutical and semiconductor firms Biogen Idec and Infineon Technologies are among its clients. It serves others in the health care, hospitality, and commercial sectors. The company has regional offices in Arizona, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. DSI is a holding of Austin, Texas-based FGI Group, Inc.

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.

Enterprise Electric welcomes the power hungry. The full service electrical firms specializes in construction and design of electrical systems for institutional, commercial, industrial, and services projects from planning through construction. The company completes projects large and small and has completed design and installation of wiring and electrical systems for health care, correctional, commercial, and industrial clients. Services include temporary power installations, voice, data, and fiber optic cabling systems, emergency generator and substation installations, maintenance services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the company serves clients throughout the US.

Meaden Precision Machined Products makes and sells precision turned parts and screw machine products from brass, steel, aluminum, stainless steel, plastic, and other materials. The company offers engineering assistance and has the capability of turning bar stock with diameters as small as 1/16-inch to stock with diameters as large as 3-1/4-inch. Other services include grinding and finishing operations (broaching, drilling, tapping, threading, and tumbling). The family-owned company was founded in Chicago in a four-car garage in 1939 as a joint venture between John Meaden and his son John Jr., who later served as the company's chairman.

Hagerman Construction oversees just about everything but the kitchen sink. Along with affiliates Hagerman Inc. and Geupel DeMars Hagerman, the company is part of The Hagerman Group, which performs general contracting services for commercial, retail, industrial, institutional, and medical and life sciences clients, mainly in the Midwest. The company's design-build services include construction, architectural and engineering design, masonry, carpentry, and building maintenance. It also provides financing and property management services. The family-owned company was founded in 1908 as Buesching Hagerman Construction by brothers-in-law William Hagerman and Frederick Buesching.

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