Hirschfeld Industries is into heavy metal. The company, operating through subsidiaries (Carolina Steel Group, Consteel Technical Services, and Hirschfeld Steel), fabricates and provides structural steel for transportation, infrastructure, industrial, commercial construction, and power projects. The group produces more than 10,000 tons of the alloy each year and its products include girders, trusses, beams, mill-rolled shapes, and other structural steel. Hirschfeld has provided steel for projects such as Reliant Stadium in Houston, the Anaheim Convention Center in California, McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, and the J. C. Penney corporate headquarters in Plano, Texas. Hirschfeld filed an IPO in 2009.

Parker Bromley is always working behind the scenes to keep the luxury of environmental controls running smoothly. The company provides electrical, heating, ventilation, and other contracting services for residences, government entities, and businesses across the UK. The company is capable of handling simple boiler renewals to large combined heating and electrical power installations. Parker Bromley also offers design and build services to complement its maintenance services. Clients have included the North British Housing Association and the Peabody Trust. Parker Bromley was founded in 1980.

Weston Homes builds apartments and houses in the UK. The company focuses its efforts on brownfield development and urban regeneration projects throughout the country. It has about a dozen projects scattered throughout England, either currently in operation (with rented or sold units) or under development. Building industry expert Bob Weston formed Weston Homes' parent company, Weston Group Plc, in 1987. Its first development was a four-bedroom, detached house in Essex; today its building portfolio features large high-rise developments in London's Docklands region.

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.

Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects provides architectural design services to customers in California. The company's offerings include planning, implementation, renovation, urban design, site studies, interior design, and program management. The firm operates from offices in Oxnard and San Diego, California; it also has a sister office, Gelfand Partners, in San Francisco. Ralph Roesling founded the firm in 1980; Kotaro Nakamura joined the company shortly thereafter. The firm changed its name from Roesling Nakamura Architects to Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects in 2004.

Sabanci Holding and HeidelbergCement equally share about 80% of Akcansa, which was founded in 1996. Akcansa Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret hopes you get stuck with them. The company produces about 16 million tons of cement and clinker each year from more than 40 plants and processing facilities in the Marmara, Aegean, and Black Sea regions of Turkey. Its products include cement, ready mix concrete (sold as Bentonsa), and concrete aggregates (sold as Agregasa). Akcansa also offers ship loading services at the ports of canakkale and Ambarli. Its subsidiary Karcimsa combines slag (a process byproduct) with clinker to produce slag cement.

The company makes acoustic control products and soundproof rooms and equipment to muffle the noise of industrial machinery. Its products include absorption systems, recording studios, jet-engine test cells, and sound-control doors. IAC serves the architectural, air-conditioning, industrial, power-generation, and aviation markets in more than 50 countries throughout the world. In 1998 the company, a subsidiary of IAC Holdings, went private after an unnamed European investor bought its remaining public shares. Martin Herschorn founded the company in 1949.

Workman Commercial is always on the job, particularly if the job has anything to do with commercial construction projects in the Lone Star State. Paul Workman established the family-owned enterprise in 1971 and incorporated the company in 1991. The commercial builder focuses on health care, office, recreational, and retail projects (including more than 80 store locations for Walgreen Co.) throughout Texas. It also builds government and religious facilities. CEO Paul Workman owns a majority stake in the company, which has offices in the Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston metro areas.

American Hardwood Industries (AHI) produces and exports lumber manufactured in some nine sawmills and operates sales offices in the eastern US. It markets products under the names Augusta, Blue Triangle, Graham Lumber, and Rossi American Hardwoods, as well as Montebello Flooring. Founded in 1955, the company exports Appalachian and northern hardwood logs, lumber and flooring to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Rossi American Hardwoods and Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing merged in 2007 to create AHI. In 2009 Augusta Lumber acquired most of AHI's assets, with the new company retaining the American Hardwood name (Augusta became AHI's subsidiary). John O'Dea, former president of Augusta, is head of the new company.

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.

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