Gray Construction doesn't have the blues when it comes to building projects. The firm is a top US design and construction firm. Through its subsidiaries the company works on a large array of commercial and industrial projects in the US and Japan. It ranks among the top US contractors in auto plant, distribution/warehouse, and processing plant construction. It also serves the federal government (including military projects), education, medical, and retail industries. Subsidiaries include WS Construction (heavy industrial and commercial contracting); Gray-I.C.E. Builders, Inc. (retail, commercial, industrial, and public construction); and Operations Associates (facilities, supply chain, and consulting).

Sloan Valve Company, headquartered in Franklin Park, Illinois, is where all of our disciplines can collaborate under one roof. From refining manufacturing processes to leading corporate initiatives, our headquarters directs and drives company-wide technological innovation and quality craftsmanship to ensure the value of excellence is passed along every step of the way.

Bertrandt AG provides engineering design for the global automotive and aviation industries. Its services include design, prototyping, and model construction, as well as parts processing. Bertrandt develops modules and vehicle derivatives, often collaborating with others in the industry. It develops bodywork, interiors, chassis, engines, and electronics systems, working closely with OEM customers such as AUDI, BMW, Daimler, and Ford. Founded in 2007, subsidiary Bertrandt Services provides human resources services throughout Germany. Harry Bertrandt founded the company as a one-man engineering firm in 1974. The company operates about 30 branches throughout Europe and one in Detroit.

Hartzell Hardwoods, an affiliate of Hartzell Industries, produces white oak (35% of its production), red oak, walnut, cherry, and ash lumber products. The company specializes in thick-stock oak lumber and walnut lumber. It operates 34 kilns and annually produces 10 million board ft. of lumber. Hartzell Hardwoods exports roughly 35% to 40% of its production throughout 10 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. John T. Hartzell began the family-owned business as a wagon maker in 1876. He then started up a sawmill to supply oak and ash lumber for his products. In 1900 he sold the business to his son, George, who specialized in walnut lumber for the European market.

Eleco is a group focused on key components of a modern construction project. Building Products used in the fabric of the building, Software tools used to manage the construction project and Sustainable Construction to enhance environmental performance. Eleco serves a number of different construction markets in the UK, parts of Europe and South Africa. Eleco is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM:ELCO).

Stericycle, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides regulated waste management and related services in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The company offers various services, which include Bio Systems sharps management services that reduce the risk of needle sticks; various products and services for infection control; Steri-Safe Occupational Safety and Health Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance programs; and regulated returns management services for expired or recalled products. It serves large-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies and distributors, as well as small-quantity generators of regulated waste, such as doctors’ offices and retail pharmacies. Stericycle, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Lake Forest, Illinois.

Harry Mathews Jr. founded the privately-held company as the Mississippi Sand Company in Alton, Illinois in 1907. If you've been looking for lime in all the wrong places, your troubles are over. Mississippi Lime Company mines and manufactures such products as high-calcium lime, limestone, and other calcium-based chemicals used in agriculture applications or food additives. The company has operations in Missouri, South Carolina, West Virginia, and in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where its Falco Lime division is headquartered. Falco Lime serves customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Another division, Reagent Technology Services, provides air pollution control products.

Penta-Ocean Construction isn't all pent up along the waterfront, although it does specialize in such marine engineering projects as dredging and land reclamation, including some environmental protection (it has developed an eelgrass transplantation process). The company's civil engineering unit also constructs airports and container terminals as well as dams, bridges, and highways. Work by its architecture unit includes concert halls, aquariums, office towers, and condominiums. Its environmental technology division builds wind power stations and recycling facilities. The company also has research and development operations for all of its divisions.

Epwin Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary SBP Limited, operates over 30 businesses achieving a turnover of £188M in 2008, creating employment for a workforce in excess of 2200 and continuing to expand its market share. With over 1.2 million square feet of production and warehousing facilities at different locations across the UK, Epwin Group is the UK’s second largest extruder of PVC-U and PVC-UE products.

Bennett Lumber Products annually produces about 150 million board ft. of lumber from such species as Douglas fir, white fir, inland red cedar, Idaho white pine, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and ponderosa pine. The company ships its products by truck and rail, and distributes them throughout the US and Canada. Guy Bennett founded the enterprise in 1939, sawing scrap lumber to build fruit crates for area orchards. It encompasses the operations of the former Guy Bennett Lumber Company in Clarkston, Washington and Bennett Lumber Products in Princeton, Idaho, which merged in 2003.

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