Nicolet Hardwoods has been shipping ash, beech, and cherry wood in the US since Ulysses Grant was president and just about everything was made of wood. Today the company produces and supplies hardwoods and softwoods both domestically and internationally. Nicolet Hardwoods manages 40,000 acres of hardwood timberlands in the Great Lakes region to produce fresh cut and kiln-dried lumber, rough and planed lumber, and random length and dimension stock. The company is owned and operated by fifth-generation members of the founding Connor family, who started Nicolet Hardwoods in 1872.

Founded in 1866 by David Saylor as Coplay Cement, the company is now a part of the Italian cement and building materials group, Italcementi. Essroc Cement likes to mix it up. The company operates about a dozen cement plants and other facilities in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and has an annual capacity of more than 6.5 million metric tons of cement. Essroc makes bulk and packaged cement products, including portland cement, ready mix concrete, and masonry cement. Its AXIM Concrete Technologies subsidiary creates concrete admixtures used to improve the performance quality of cement. Essroc's brands include BRIXMENT, Saylor's PLUS, and VELVET masonry. Its BRAVO line includes masonry chemical products.

Denne Construction builds affordable housing, apartments, schools, office buildings, and other structures throughout London and in southeast England. The regional contractor focused primarily on clients in the public sector, with an emphasis on subsidized housing, public construction, education, and senior living projects. The company is part of The Leadbitter Group, which was acquired in a Bouygues-led management buyout from Dutch construction firm Heijmans in late 2010. Denne Construction traces its roots to 1803, when it specialized in building coffins (among other things).

Lindal Cedar Homes makes custom cedar homes and sunrooms. Customers choose from more than 3,000 floor plans and Lindal ships homebuilding packages to customers' sites. The houses have solid cedar, log, post-and-beam, or conventional framing construction and are made with western red cedar. Lindal also offers solid wood and wood clad windows. The company operates through about 150 independent dealers and sells its products worldwide. Former US President Lyndon Johnson had two Lindal homes built on his ranch near Johnson City, Texas. Sir Walter Lindal founded the company in 1945. Lindal and his family control the company, which has produced more than 50,000 homes.

CSI provides general contracting, design, development, and construction management services; the company focuses on retail projects, but it also takes on other types of commercial and non-commercial jobs such as industrial facilities, office buildings, and multi-family residential projects. CSI's customers have included Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Trammell Crow Company. The company operates from offices in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Portland, Oregon; and Irvine, California. It primarily serves customers in the western half of the US. Founded in 1978, CSI is controlled by president Tim Phelan.

Thomas Concrete Industries, Inc. is one Georgia's largest producers of ready-mix concrete. Its products are used for commercial and residential projects and include high-strength, colored, exposed aggregate, and architectural concrete. The company operates about 50 plants in its home state and in North and South Carolina; it also has a fleet of mixer trucks. Thomas Concrete Industries is owned by Thomas Concrete Group AB, a Swedish conglomerate which also includes Fardig Betong and Thomas Beton. For Thomas Concrete Industries, the strength is in the mix.

International Computer Appliances Corporation (which does business as ICA Corporation) is a contract manufacturer that makes custom metal component parts for analytical instrumentation, aerospace, medical equipment, and other products. The company provides sheet metal fabrication and laser cutting, precision machining, custom enclosures, and chassis assemblies. ICA Corporation also offers value-added services, from assembling medical diagnostic devices with multi-language software to packaging custom kits and inventory management. Its manufacturing facility takes up 60,000 sq. ft. in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis. ICA Corporation, which was founded in 1970, is employee-owned.

Fitzpatrick & Weller produces and sells kiln-dried hardwood lumber and wood components for furniture, cabinetry, and staircase applications. It also makes musical instrument parts, snowboards, cutting boards, table tops, game boards, and other items. The company uses hardwood species that include ash, hard and soft maple, cherry, basswood, red and white oak, and poplar. It exports up to 50% of its production. Fitzpatrick & Weller began operations in 1892.

Black & Veatch Ltd. engineering firm provides consulting, refurbishment, and decommissioning services for water-related projects in Europe. A subsidiary of Black & Veatch Holding, the group provides design and management of dams, pipelines, canals, water/wastewater and industrial water treatment plants, as well as the refurbishment of water and wastewater industry structures and facilities. Black & Veatch Water Europe also provides mechanical and electrical engineering design services, building design and project management services, and IT services.

Lafarge Malayan Cement makes and sells cement, ready-mix concrete, and other building materials. Its cement products include masonry, blastfurnace, pulverized-fly ash, and sulphate-resisting Portland cement. Lafarge Malayan Cement is the largest cement producer in Malaysia with a market share of some 45%; it has three cement plants, about a dozen sales offices, one grinding plant, one dry-mix plant, and five terminals throughout the country. Lafarge Malayan Cement Bhd began in 1950 as Malayan Cement, a subsidiary of the UK's Blue Circle Industries. In 2001 the French firm Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, purchased Blue Circle.

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