Founded in 1914, the fourth-generation family-owned company manufactures wall-mounted climate-control products and sells them through a global network of distributors. Its products include air conditioners, heat pumps, oil furnaces and electric heaters, and control and ventilation systems, including thermostats, energy monitors, and dehumidifiers. Bard's products are used in residential homes, mobile homes, offices, schools, and telecommunications facilities. With headquarters in Ohio, the company has manufacturing and production plants in Georgia and Mexico. All the world's a stage for Bard Manufacturing -- if that world revolved around heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

Ensor Holdings, through its subsidiary companies, distributes industrial doors and a whole lot more: building supplies; roofing and drainage products; tools; access control equipment; packaging products; and electric motors. Ensor Holdings manufactures, installs, and maintains industrial doors, gates, and barriers through its Lowland Ensor Doors and OSA Doors subsidiaries; packaging and transportation products through Woods Packaging; and rubber crumb products for the sports, safety surfaces, and automotive industries through SRC Limited. Ensor's faltering timber and fencing unit Hawkins-Salmon went into administration in 2009. Chairman Ken Harrison owns 54% of Ensor.

American Pan & Engineering Co. has its hand firmly planted in concrete. The privately-held specialty contractor, which does business as APEC, offers concrete formwork for commercial buildings in the southeastern US. The firm is involved in such construction projects as condominiums, hotels, and hospitals (the latter brings in about half of its annual revenue), as well as parking decks, office buildings, and schools. It has done work on Florida Memorial Hospital; Rosen Hotels and Resorts' Shingle Creek resort and convention center in Orlando; and science and engineering buildings at Georgia Institute of Technology. Founded in 1995 by president BJ Jarun, APEC has offices in Florida, Georgia, and Texas.

Opus Group Berhad -- operating primarily through its subsidiaries, including Opus International Consultants (Opus IC) -- provides asset development and asset management services for clients who are developing or maintaining such massive projects as highways, airports, hospitals, sports complexes, and mixed-use developments. The company's primary source of revenue comes from its engineering, planning, and other related consultant services. Opus Group Berhad, a subsidiary of engineering and health care group UEM Group Berhad, has more than 80 offices in Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada, Vietnam, and India.

The Jerde Partnership is an architecture, landscape design, and urban planning firm specializing in what the firm calls "Jerde Placemaking," a concept by which it designs places where people can gather and share a sense of community, which then promotes investments in and revitalization of urban areas. The firm designs entertainment, retail, and mixed-use projects in Southern California and has developed innovative projects throughout the world. The Jerde Partnership has an office in Venice, California and international offices in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Chairman Jon Jerde founded the enterprise in 1977.

OPT-Sciences Corporation, through its subsidiary, O & S Research, Inc., deposits anti-glare and transparent conductive optical coatings on glass used primarily to cover instrument panels in aircraft cockpits. Its products enable pilots to read aircraft instruments in direct sunlight or at night, or in covert situations using appropriate night vision filters. The company offers coatings to various types of glass face plates, which are mounted on the front of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), cathode ray tubes, and electromechanical displays. It also provides glass cutting, grinding, and painting services, as well as manufactures wedge glass lenses for electro-mechanical displays. In addition, the company provides a range of other specialty instrument glass, including night vision filter glass, circular polarizers, touchpads, glass sandwiches for LCDs, and other custom designed specialty glass components and assemblies. It primarily offers its products to commercial, business, and regional aircraft market, as well as to the military aircraft market. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Cinnaminson, New Jersey.

Sirianni Hardwoods kiln dries hardwood lumber and wholesales it to manufacturers and distribution yards throughout North America and overseas. The company specializes in Northern Appalachian hardwoods. These include red oak, white oak, soft maple, and other species. It has air drying sheds that hold about 6 million board ft. of green lumber year long. The company purchases lumber from mills in the region. President John Sirianni and COO Jim Sirianni own the company, which was founded in 1979.

Oldcastle Materials, Inc. is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete, and construction and paving services in the United States. Our operations span the nation from Montana to Texas and from Washington to Florida. We’re local to the customers and communities that depend on our materials, yet we deliver the best practice standards and efficiencies of a company with a national presence. Oldcastle Materials has 18,000 employees at more than 1,400 operations in 44 states and generated over $6 billion in revenues in 2009. Towns have grown up around our operations, using Oldcastle products to fuel their growth. Our expansion is steady and strategic to meet the nation’s needs for new roadways, facilities and other infrastructure.

Synagro Technologies, Inc.,the company collects biosolids created by the treatment of wastewater at municipal and industrial plants throughout the US. Synagro Technologies makes money by drying, pelletizing, composting, and incinerating the biosolids and by transporting them for land application as soil base and fertilizer. The company also cleans out sewage lagoons and designs biosolids recycling systems. Synagro Technologies is owned by investment firm The Carlyle Group.

Avatar aspires to be the embodiment of retirement living. The company develops residential communities and builds homes in the popular retirement destinations of Central Florida and Arizona. Its master-planned communities are often located in picturesque settings and offer amenities such as golf courses, restaurants, and fitness centers. The company owns some 16,000 acres of developed and developable land as well as wetlands and other open space. Avatar also operates a title insurance agency and manages the day-to-day operations of its communities' amenities. The company's development activities have been minimal as it weathers the economic downturn.

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