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.

One of the largest lime companies in the world, Lhoist Group of Belgium, owns Lhoist North America, which was founded in 1966. Lhoist North America (formerly Chemical Lime Company) produces lime and lime-based products derived from calcium-rich limestone. The company's primary product, quicklime (or calcium oxide) is used for steelmaking, ore processing, industrial manufacturing, and construction. The company's products also serve environmental purposes such as wastewater treatment and softening drinking water, as well as roadbed stabilization. Lhoist North America provides lime slurry (hot liquid lime) to its customers from its mobile PORTA BATCH concentrated production units.

Parsons Electric empowers its customers by providing electrical and voice and data communications installation for commercial, health care, hospitality industrial, and other facilities. Founded in 1927, Parsons operates through three divisions. Its electrical division designs and builds systems while the technologies division handles voice and data communications design, installation, service, and maintenance. The technical service unit installs, repairs, and tests systems, with a specialty in servicing printing equipment. Parsons' clients have included 3M, Boise Cascade, Iron Mountain, and the Minnesota Timberwolves. The company has offices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

Fred Weber weaves a web of heavy and highway construction services, including site work, bridge building, paving, sewers, and grading. Its history includes work on a section of Route 66 noted for having the largest vertical rock cut ever completed in Missouri. Fred Weber's construction materials segment (asphalt, crushed stone, sand, landfill, and compost) includes subsidiaries Quality Sand, Bluff City Minerals, Iron Mountain Trap Rock, and EZ Street Cold Asphalt. It operates quarries, sand plants, and asphalt plants. The company was founded by Fred Weber Sr. in the 1920s. Employees purchased the company from the Weber family in 1980.

Nicolet Hardwoods has been shipping ash, beech, and cherry wood in the US since Ulysses Grant was president and just about everything was made of wood. Today the company produces and supplies hardwoods and softwoods both domestically and internationally. Nicolet Hardwoods manages 40,000 acres of hardwood timberlands in the Great Lakes region to produce fresh cut and kiln-dried lumber, rough and planed lumber, and random length and dimension stock. The company is owned and operated by fifth-generation members of the founding Connor family, who started Nicolet Hardwoods in 1872.

AHI Linden Lumber has the goods for your sweet home Alabama. Also known as Linden Lumber, the company specializes in southern hardwood lumber, namely red oak, white oak, and ash. It can produce as much as 80 million board ft. of these species annually, placing Linden Lumber among the top producers in the South. However, the housing downturn and subsequent financial crisis hurt the company hard with a decrease in demand and lowered sales. Private equity firm H.I.G. Investments recapitalized Linden in 2008, but by the end of the year the lumber company had laid off most of its workforce. The company is undergoing a restructuring of its product line and operations to keep afloat.

Strathclyde Homes is a builder of both residential and commercial properties. In addition, the company operates a home and apartment rental business, Strathclyde Homes Residential Letting. Since the company sold its first homes in 1988, it has ventured into a small portfolio of commercial developments with further plans to develop across the country.

The Douglas Company has built there, done that. The firm builds multifamily residential properties ranging from three to more than 300 units; retail properties including pharmacy, grocery, department, and apparel stores; and commercial locations - everything from hockey rinks and running tracks to car dealerships and a mushroom farm. It also constructs health care, rehabilitation, and living centers for seniors, and has an in-house design studio. Members of president Peter Douglas' family formed the company in 1976.

Carmeuse was founded in 1860 in Liege, Belgium. Perhaps Carmeuse could amuse you with some lime or lime derivatives? Carmeuse company, a subsidiary of Netherlands-based L.V.I. Holding, produces lime and lime-related products for industrial and commercial customers the world over. Carmeuse handles all forms of limestone and its derivatives, including quicklime (calcium oxide), slaked lime (calcium hydroxide), and dolomite (calcium and magnesium carbonate), and it delivers its products in bulk, in bags or containers, or on pallets. Carmeuse company, which primarily serves Europe and North America, has numerous production facilities with an annual output capacity of more than 13 million tons of lime.

Kolbe & Kolbe Millwork. Instead, workers are busy making wooden and aluminum-clad windows and doors in a variety of styles. The family-owned company also includes Kolbe Vinyl Windows & Doors and Pointe Five, which offer custom-made and Craftsman-style doors and garden windows. The company provides installation and maintenance through its ServicePro unit. Sales and distribution of Kolbe & Kolbe products is handled by K-K Sales and K-K Way. Kolbe & Kolbe sells its products to distributors and dealers throughout the US and in Canada, China, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Korea, and the UK. The building products company is led by CEO Judith Kolbe Gorski.

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