Fairmount Minerals is responsible for a fair amount of the minerals mined in the Midwest. Operating through several divisions and subsidiaries, Fairmount Minerals, Ltd. is one of the United States' largest producers of industrial sand used for construction, metal casting, glass, landscaping, oil and gas stimulation, filtration, abrasives, and filler. Products include silica sand, resin-coated sand, lake sand, and other specialty sands, including those used in pool filters, golf course bunkers, and children's sand boxes. Fairmount Minerals has operations in seven states (primarily in the Midwest) and in Canada, Mexico, and China, 11 mining and mineral processing facilities and seven manufacturing plants.

Orascom Construction Industries (OCI),the Egyption company offers construction services and fertilizer products primarily in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. OCI performs large-scale commercial, industrial, and infrastructure engineering and building services; principal operating units include the Besix Group in Belgium and Contrack International in the US. Its fertilizer operations include Egyptian Fertilizer Company and Gavilon. The company sold its cement operations to building materials behemoth Lafarge in 2008.

Shaped by Messrs. Raub, Bein, and Frost, RBF Consulting has built a reputation for helping to build Southern California's infrastructure. The firm provides engineering, planning (it surveyed the initial site for Disneyland), and construction management services for public and private sector projects. RBF has expanded both its size and its breadth of services over the years by acquiring other firms, and now has more than a dozen offices in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Formerly known as Robert Bein, William Frost & Associates, RBF has been ranked among country's top 100 engineering design firms.

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.

Masco's ideal customer is a home improvement junkie with a thing for cabinets -- and a hand-washing fetish. The company is a leading manufacturer of a variety of home improvement and building products. Its cabinet and plumbing products businesses account for more than half its sales. Cabinet brands include KraftMaid, Quality Cabinets, and Merillat in the US and The Moores Group and Tvilum-Scanbirk in Europe. Faucets and bath and shower accessories are sold under the Delta and Peerless brands in the US and as Hansgrohe in Europe. Masco also makes BEHR paints and stains, windows, doors, staple guns, locksets, and HVAC products. If you're more comfortable on the couch, Masco also provides installation services.

American Infrastructure provides balance and structure. Through subsidiaries Allan A. Myers and American Infrastructure-Virginia, the firm provides heavy civil construction services for projects in the Mid-Atlantic. It builds and reconstructs highways, water treatment plants, medical facilities, and shopping centers, and offers site development for homebuilders. Its Independence Construction Materials (ICM) subsidiary supplies aggregates, asphalt, and ready-mixed concrete to its construction companies. The family-run business was established in 1939 as Allan A. Myers and Son, a local hauling company in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

River City Construction, L.L.C.,the company constructs commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings for customers in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. River City also offers design services through its River City Design Group subsidiary and masonry and renovation work through its M. R. Mason Contractor subsidiary. Projects include the Hayden-Clark Alumni Center at Bradley University, the Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the Rend Lake Water Treatment Plant in Benton, Illinois. The company, which operates through four offices, was founded in East Peoria, Illinois in 1984.

Perkins Eastman Architects stands tall as one of New York City's top architecture firms. It offers urban, interior, and sustainable design and planning services not only in the Big Apple, but other parts of the US and internationally in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Perkins Eastman specializes in buildings and facilities that serve the cultural, education, government, health care, technology, hospitality, office, retail, and senior living sectors. Notable projects include the TKTS Booth -- one of the world's most complex all-glass structures -- in New York's Times Square. The privately held firm was co-founded in 1981 by chairman Bradford Perkins and principal Mary-Jean Eastman.

The Rottlund Company (Rottlund Homes) develops the land people live on and builds the houses they live in. The company builds condominiums, townhouses, villas, and detached single-family homes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and in Florida and Iowa. Rottlund's homes range in price from $125,000 to more than $1 million. The company targets a wide range of customers, from first-time and move-up buyers to active adults and retirees. Brothers David Rotter (the firm's chairman) and the late Bernard Rotter founded the company in 1973. The Rotter family continues to own the company.

Yantis Company has been shaping the landscape of South and Central Texas. Founded in 1965 by John Yantis, Yantis Company has grown into a cornerstone of the South & Central Texas Business Community. Yantis Company employs over 500 employees and annually performs over $110 million dollars worth of construction contracts.

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