Western Forest Products Inc. company harvests softwood timber (mostly from government-owned land), manages woodlands, and produces lumber, logs, and wood chips from about a dozen mills and plants. Lumber accounts for about three-fourths of total sales; specialty products include oversized lumber and western red cedar products. Western Forest Products primarily operates in coastal British Columbia. Its products are sold in more than 30 countries, primarily Canada, Asia, and the US. Subsidiary MacMillan Bloedel Kabushiki Kaisha sells to wholesale and manufacturing customers in Japan.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

Barnard Construction Company really does give a dam about the quality of its work. The heavy civil contractor specializes in building and improving dams, tunnels, oil and gas pipelines, and water and sewer lines across the nation. It has been ranked as the top US contractor in dam construction and is also ranked among the leading contractors for other types of projects -- transmission lines and aqueducts, water supply facilities, oil and gas pipelines, and air pollution control facilities. CEO and owner Tim Barnard founded the firm in 1975; other units, including Barcon, Barnard Environmental, and Barnard Pipeline, were formed to support Barnard Construction Company's primary operations.

Superior Ready Mix Concrete, with more than 20 plants throughout Southern California, traces its roots to a concrete batch plant that was incorporated by Jack Brouwer in 1959 as Escondido Ready Mix Concrete, Inc. Superior Ready Mix Concrete continues to be family owned. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's strives to make its lowly products top-of-the-heap. Superior Ready Mix Concrete provides concrete, aggregates, and asphalt products for contractors and homeowners. Superior Ready Mix Concrete's products also include block, decorative rock, sand, tools, and other building materials for small and large-scale projects. Superior also sells used paving equipment and trucks. Its paving division resurfaces roads and highways around California.

Straight Line Industries (SLI) is bound to leave a mark ... with traffic paints, epoxy, preformed tapes, and raised markers. The contractor installs pavement markings on asphalt and concrete surfaces, including highways, parking lots, airports, running tracks, and playgrounds. SLI can replicate mascots and logos for schools and businesses, and strip special items such as helicopter landing pads for hospitals and safety markings for warehouses and fire houses. It also distributes solar-powered signs. SLI mainly operates in New York, but also in New Jersey and Massachusetts, providing services to heavy/highway construction contractors and paving companies. President Pilar Dexter founded SLI in 1993.

Consolidated Contracting Services has consolidated a large offering of general contracting and specialty contracting services. Focusing on the new construction and renovation of commercial buildings in Southern California, the firm provides construction management and other construction services Consolidated Contracting has worked with a variety of clients to build cleanrooms, storage units, banks, churches, recreation areas, and restaurants. Specialty services include soft demolition, drywall framing and taping, acoustical ceiling and door installation, wood framing, and concrete work. Cuban-born cofounders Tony Elias-Calles and Joe Troya own Consolidated Contracting Services, which was incorporated in 1983.

EDGE tries to edge out the competition when bidding on civic and other contracts. Construction company EDGE Development offers general contracting, design/build, engineering, construction management, and lease/buyback services. The company specializes in such projects as public schools, parks, and civic and commercial facilities. Its portfolio includes an athletic center for the City of Highland; a library in Napa Valley; fire stations for Carlsbad and Oceanside; and numerous elementary, middle, and high schools. The company is controlled by Steve Prophet and Dayne Wagoner, who founded EDGE in 1989.

American Bridge Company spans the nation's modern industrial age. The firm provides general contracting, engineering, and subcontracting services to transportation, infrastructure, military, and industrial markets in North and South America. It manufactures, erects, reconstructs, and rehabilitates all manner of bridges, including cable-supported, movable, steel truss, and steel and concrete arch structures. American Bridge also specializes in near-shore marine facilities, security infrastructure, military and government buildings, and sports arenas and stadiums. It manufactures structural steel and precast concrete bridge components and specialized equipment for bridge construction, as well.

Niedermeyer Intertrade exports wood products from North America. The company specializes in power line construction materials such as pressure treated poles, crossarms and crossbraces, pole line hardware, and glulam (glue laminated) power poles. It also provides treated and untreated lumber, Eastern red cedar logs and veneer quality logs, and other building materials.

Ube-Mitsubishi Cement is Japan's second largest supplier of cement and a joint venture between leading Japanese materials producer Mitsubishi Materials and diversified chemical, metals, and machinery provider Ube Industries. The company markets cement and related products manufactured by its parent companies. It primarily serves customers in the construction and industrial markets. Ube-Mitsubishi also operates a cement research institute in Tokyo. In an effort to break into the potentially lucrative Russian cement market, Ube-Mitsubishi Cement began exporting cement products there in 2008 -- a first for a Japanese company.

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