Darlington Veneer Company mills and distributes hardwood plywood products to boat builders, cabinet and furniture makers, millwork manufacturers, wholesale distributors, and others from its plant in Darlington, South Carolina. It sells more than 20 varieties of wood in half round, plain sliced, rotary cut, rift, and quartered cuts. Prospective customers can request price quotes through the company's Web site. Darlington Veneer, founded in 1918, is owned by the Ramsey family, including president John Ramsey and secretary Jim Ramsey. The Ramseys also own Diamond Hill Plywood.

The engineering and construction conglomerate (also known as the Ledcor Group of Companies) holds a network of firms focused on large-scale projects in Canada and the US. The group operates through divisions that specialize in commercial building, heavy civil, industrial, contract mining, and pipeline construction. Ledcor builds condos, office buildings, airports, highways, and industrial complexes; provides mining excavation; and offers network equipment installation, network site maintenance, and fiber-optic cable maintenance. Subsidiary Ledcor Properties invests in real estate. Employee-owned Ledcor was founded in 1947 by William Lede, the father of CEO Dave Lede.

EnergySolutions, Inc. provides technology-based nuclear services to government and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. The company operates in four segments: Federal Services; Commercial Services; Logistics, Processing, and Disposal (LP&D); and International. The Federal Services segment engages in the management and operation or clean-up of the U.S. Department of Energy facilities that are contaminated by radioactive materials. It offers onsite characterization, sorting, segregation, transportation, management, and disposal of classified and unclassified solid and liquid low-level radioactive waste, mixed low-level waste, and other special wastes. This segment also performs decontamination and decommissioning (D&D), and demolition of facilities, including the disposal of radioactive materials; and provides D&D, processing, and disposal services to the U.S. Department of Defense. The Commercial Services segment offers a range of onsite services, including project planning, site surveys, radioactive material characterization and management, liquid waste processing, spent nuclear fuel, emergency response, and other nuclear services to commercial customers comprising commercial power and utility companies that operate nuclear power plants, pharmaceutical companies, research laboratories, universities, industrial facilities, and other entities that generate radioactive materials. The LP&D segment provides various logistics, processing, and disposal services, as well as owns and operates facilities for processing and disposal of radioactive materials. The International segment operates, defuels, and decommissions 10 nuclear power sites, as well as provides services for the disposal of radioactive sources from non-nuclear power generating facilities, such as hospitals, research facilities, and other manufacturing and industrial facilities in Europe and Asia. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ForeRunner runs on gas of a different sort. The company provides engineering, design, construction, and management services for oil and gas pipelines, storage and processing facilities, and related infrastructure projects. It also offers consulting services, feasibilty studies, and project repairs and renovations. Operating from offices in Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Texas, ForeRunner has completed more than 1,700 projects throughout the US. The firm has served clients including BP, El Paso Corporation, Williams Companies, and Platte River Power Authority. ForeRunner was established in 1996 and acquired by URS in 2009.

Western Construction Group, a specialty contractor with expertise in masonry and concrete restoration and preventive waterproofing. It also performs specialty services such as installation of commercial and industrial roofing and insulation, architectural metal restoration and fabrication, seismic upgrades, and disaster recovery. The group's eight member companies operate more than 35 offices throughout the US. Western Construction Group was founded as Western Waterproofing Co. in 1915 by George Bishop Sr. and Ben Many. It has been privately held by the Bishop family for three generations.

Smith Consulting Architects (SCA) provides planning, architecture, and interior design for commercial projects, primarily in the San Diego area, and elsewhere in Southern California. Its specializes in projects for the biotechnology, corporate/industrial, retail, and sustainable design segments. SCA's projects have included automotive retail facilities, civic centers, industrial parks, and master planned communities. The firm has developed buildings and facilities for Dow, Gen-Probe, 24 Hour Fitness, Taylor Made, and other major companies. President Cheryl Smith started Smith Consulting Architects, which has offices in San Diego and Palm Springs, in 1988.

Brock White Company was founded in 1954 by George White and Wayne Brock, two former chemical engineering classmates at the University of Minnesota. Contractors in the Upper Midwest and Prairie regions of Canada can go to Brock White Company if they need specialty construction products including brick, stone, specialty chemicals, waterproofing materials, and masonry accessories. Its Canadian locations also supply mechanical insulation and roofing products. The distribution company operates from some 20 locations in the US and Canada, as well as through catalogs and the Internet. Customers include commercial, residential, road and bridge, and erosion control construction companies.

Moro Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in construction materials and mechanical contracting businesses. Its construction material activities include fabrication of reinforcing steel and distribution of construction accessories to customers primarily in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The company's mechanical contracting activities consist of fabrication of sheet metal ductwork and process piping; provision of mechanical contracting services; and sale, installation, and service of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems to residential and commercial customers located in New York.

Jaya Tiasa's newest venture is palm oil. It is developing more than 200,000 acres of plantation land and plans to operate six palm oil mills by 2014. Jaya Tiasa's businesses are growing, and, one might even say, soaring. The company owns timber operations, oil palm plantations, and a small helicopter chartering service. Its timber products include round logs, sawn timber, plywood, blockboard, and veneer, all produced from the trees grown on almost 2 million acres of forest in Malaysia. Jaya's wood products are exported to the Asia/Pacific, the US, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company also has a reforestation operation, which grows and sells tree seedlings.

Catchy, no. Descriptive, yes. CH2M HILL's name is culled from its founders (Cornell, Howland, Hayes, and Merryfield) plus HILL, from its first merger. The engineering and construction group is organized into three divisions: government, environment, and nuclear; facilities and infrastructure; and energy. Federal projects typically include nuclear and environmental cleanup and government facility operations. The firm also works for state and local governments building water and wastewater systems, airports, highways, and other transportation projects. Its energy division targets private sector companies in the chemical, energy, and life science industries. Founded in 1946, the company is owned by its employees.

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