Baillie Lumber Co. company produces and distributes nearly 200 million board ft. of American hardwood products annually. Baillie Lumber offers species that include cherry, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, poplar, beech, and ash, in addition to exotic species such as mahogany and teak. It operates five production facilities, three sawmills, and warehouses in the US and overseas and exports its products to more than 60 countries. Baillie's customers include window manufactures and furniture and molding makers. James Baillie founded the company as a lumber brokerage firm in Hamburg, New York in 1923.

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.

CTC Marine Projects is not about to hold its breath over the future strength of its business. The company is a leading specialist in trenching for subsea cables, flowlines, and pipelines, and offers installation of subsea cables and flowlines. Customers hail from the telecommunications, oil, and gas industries. CTC Marine Projects' equipment fleet is comprised of three cable ships and two supply ship, along with ploughs and trenchers. Its customers have included ExxonMobil, Shell, and ConocoPhillips.

Lum Chang Holdings invests in, develops, builds, and renovates commercial, civil, and institutional properties, primarily in Singapore and the Pacific Rim. It also develops luxury residential properties in Singapore and, with joint venture partner GIC Real Estate, in Malaysia. Its portfolio includes upscale condominiums, bungalows, and golf resorts and country clubs. Another partnership with Tokyo-based Nishimatsu Construction provides construction on Singapore's mass transit system. The company's Lum Chang Building Contractors subsidiary was established in the 1940s and has become one of Singapore's largest construction firms.

Sekisui Chemical (named for a concept of power taken from Sun-Tsu's Art of War) is a central corporation of the Sekisui "keiretsu --" companies affiliated through cross-ownership. Its main segments include housing, urban infrastructure and environmental products, and high performance plastics. Prefabricated housing (detached steel-framed and wooden-framed construction), accounts for about half of its sales. Other products include plastic pipes and fittings (used in water and sewage systems), medical multifrequency body fat meters, pipe valves, foams for automotive and construction applications, and rain gutters.

Bovis Homes builds and sells single-family houses, apartments, retirement facilities, and social housing units in England and Wales. The company also builds mixed-use projects which include residential properties in combination with retail and/or office properties. Bovis targets the middle market buyer; it completed some 1,800 homes in 2008 (down from 2,900 in 2007) with an average price of 150,800 (some $249,600). The company maintains a land bank portfolio of approximately 11,500 plots held for development.

Hood Industries' products come from deep in the forest to a place in your 'hood. The company manufactures plywood, lumber, and siding from Southern Pine at mills in Mississippi and Georgia. Its McEwen Group division distributes hardwood and softwood products to the specialty millwork industry and to cabinet and furniture makers throughout the Southeast and Arizona. In New England, Hood Industries' McQuesten Company division distributes building products, including composite and vinyl products, to independent retail lumberyards. Hood Industries was established in 1983. Hit by falling prices and demand for building products, the company closed its mill in Coushatta, Louisiana, in 2008.

Hubert Construction LLC company offers preconstruction, design/build, construction management, and general contracting services to fellow businesses. Services include budget estimating, early procurement, interior design and decor, and small scale repair and maintenance. Hubert's creates office buildings, hotels, industrial, recreation facilities, and commercial interiors in Maryland and Virginia. The late Ralph Hubert started the company in 1998 after 50 years in the construction business.

Persimmon is enjoying the fruits of its hard labor. One of the UK's largest homebuilders, the company designs and constructs homes, bungalows, and apartments; its Charles Church division builds larger luxury homes. Working with the UK government, Persimmon also undertakes social housing projects through its Westbury Partnerships business and its Space4 timber-frame housing operations. Persimmon's land bank is one of the largest in the country, with some 76,000 plots. The company constructs more than 15,000 homes annually, with an average selling price of around 185,000.

S. T. Wooten Corporation is a heavy construction firm that specializes in building roads and other civil infrastructure projects in the Carolinas, Florida, and other southeastern states. It operates through more than a half dozen business units: asphalt, commercial, quality concrete, ready mix concrete, heavy grade, structures, and utilities. It has 13 asphalt plants and 17 ready-mix concrete plants. Seth T. Wooten Sr. founded the company in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, in 1952. Seth Wooten Jr. serves as the company's CEO; the Wooten family continues to own the business.

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