To TOTO, going to the restroom is not just a bodily function, it is a sublime experience. The #1 toilet brand in Japan, TOTO toilets incorporate electronic, water-saving, and grime-resistant technologies, and feature options from elevating toilet seats for the elderly to heated-seat toilets with warm-water bidet functions. The company makes plumbing and other home products and bathroom and kitchen units (about half of sales). TOTO also develops new metals, ceramics for the semiconductor industry, and photocatalyst technology used in making films, tiles, and auto body coatings. Its Hydrotect film is used to protect car mirrors.

CIMPOR was created in 1976 as a state-owned entity, but the government of Portugal sold the last of its stake in 2001. CIMPOR - Cimentos de Portugal finds it easy to be hard. CIMPOR is Portugal's largest cement manufacturer and one of the largest on the Iberian Peninsula. The company produces and markets more than 31 million tons of cement around the world each year. CIMPOR also produces aggregate, concrete and precast concrete products, hydraulic lime, and dry mortars. The company operates in about a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America; about half of its cement is manufactured in Spain and Portugal.

NVR offers homebuyers everything -- including the kitchen sink. The company builds single-family detached homes, townhomes, and condominiums, mainly for first-time and move-up buyers, primarily in the eastern US. NVR markets its homes as Ryan Homes, Fox Ridge Homes, Rymarc Homes, and NVHomes. Its largest markets, the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas, account for nearly half of sales. NVR sells about 15,000 homes annually. Sizes range from 1,000 sq. ft. to 7,300 sq. ft., and prices range from $56,000 to $2 million, averaging about $296,000. Subsidiary NVR Mortgage Finance offers mortgage and title services.

Preformed Line Products Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs and manufactures products and systems used in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries worldwide. The company offers formed wire and related hardware products to support, protect, terminate, and secure power conductor and communication cables and to control cable dynamics. These products also include hardware for supporting and protecting transmission conductors, spacers, spacer-dampers, stockbridge dampers, corona suppression devices, and various compression fittings for dead-end applications. It also provides protective closures, which include splice cases to protect fixed line communication networks, such as copper cable or fiber optic cable from moisture, environmental hazards, and other potential contaminants. In addition, the company offers data communication cabinets that are used in high-speed data systems to hold and protect electronic equipment; plastic products, including guy markers, tree guards, fiber optic cable markers, and pedestal markers to identify power conductors, communication cables, and guy wires; and other products, such as hardware assemblies, pole line hardware, resale products, underground connectors, solar hardware systems, and urethane products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable, and special industries. Its customers include public and private energy utilities, communication companies, cable operators, financial institutions, governmental agencies, contractors and subcontractors, distributors, and value-added resellers. The company markets its products through direct sales force and manufacturing representatives. Preformed Line Products Company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Mayfield Village, Ohio.

Tumac Lumber Co., Inc. company distributes wood and wood products in the US and internationally. The company and its regional subsidiaries sell products such as mouldings, hardwoods and softwoods, composite products, decking, and furniture parts to kitchen cabinet companies and furniture manufacturers, utility companies, pulp mills, RV manufacturers, and others. Tumac exports lumber (Douglas fir and southern yellow pine) to Europe, hardwood logs and lumber to Asia, and industrial and construction products to customers in the Caribbean. Paul McCracken and Bill MacPherson established Tumac Lumber in 1959.

States Industries manufactures hardwood and softwood veneer products for wholesale and retail distribution throughout the US and Canada. The company, which was founded in 1966, produces natural wood veneered panels for residential wall paneling applications and industrial panels for manufacturers of cabinets, furniture, store fixtures, and architectural interiors. States Industries sells its products through retail stores, wholesale distributors, and directly to large wood product manufacturers. Mounting debt and declining sales forced States Industries to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010. Shortly after, it was acquired by leading creditor Renwood Opportunities Fund for nearly $20 million.

Construction Specialties, a member of the global C/S Group of companies, makes specialty architectural products for the new construction market including sunscreens (louvers and grilles) and entrance carpeting. Its Acrovyn line of wall panels, doors, and protection products include accent rails, corner guards, and handrails. The company also makes specialty venting products (such as explosion vents) and track and curtain systems. Its goods are featured in projects ranging from the the skyscraper Taipei 101 to the new Dallas Cowboys football stadium.

Leighton Holdings provides engineering and construction services for mining, infrastructure, commercial, and environmental projects in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, and the Middle East. Typical contracts include the maintenance and construction of pipelines, mines, highways, tunnels, and commercial buildings. The group's largest subsidiaries are mining, construction, and services firm Thiess and project management firm Leighton Contractors. The 45%-owned Al Habtoor Leighton division, formed in 2007, is one of the largest construction contractors in the booming Gulf region. Leighton also develops real estate and offers facilities management services. German construction firm HOCHTIEF owns 55% of the group.

Industrial Molding Corporation shapes its own future by providing precision injected-plastic moldings, as well as insert molding, automation engineering, assembly, decorating, and logistics. Customers include manufacturers in the automotive, medical/dental, bearing, electronic, recreational, fiber optic, and consumer goods industries. The company operates a 150,000-sq.-ft. injection molding manufacturing plant, and more than 80 plastic injection molding machines. Industrial Molding is a subsidiary of NN, Inc., a producer and supplier of high-quality, precision steel balls and rollers to bearing manufacturers worldwide.

NCI Group, Inc, a subsidiary of NCI Building Systems, manufactures metal roofing and wall systems for the commercial, industrial, architectural, residential and agricultural markets. Products include steel and aluminum roofing, siding, and light gauge framing materials. MBCI also makes trims, flashings, and accessories. All products are available in a variety of colors and textures. Founded in 1976, MBCI operates some 20 sales and manufacturing facilities throughout the US. The company sells to regional manufacturers, contractors, distributors, lumber yards, and other groups.

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