Engineering and consulting firm KEMRON Environmental Services provides analytical testing, consulting, emergency response, environmental assessment and engineering, geotechnical testing, and site remediation. Customers include branches of the US military and other federal agencies. Its client base also includes private sector companies ranging from small businesses to major manufacturers and FORTUNE 500 companies. KEMRON operates from offices in Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. The company is owned by its employees.

Taylor Lumber makes a lot of good wood. The company produces hardwood lumber and flooring for the construction industry. It purchases logs (white and red oak, ash, cherry, walnut, hickory, and hard maple) from within a 300-mile radius of its southern Ohio location to produce its lumber. Taylor Lumber is capable of producing and shipping 100,000 ft. of plain sawn and rift and quartered lumber a day. Its flooring plant can manufacture 25,000 sq. ft. of hardwood plank a day, sold as Taylor Brand Solid Flooring and McDermott Series Engineered Flooring. It ships to more than 40 countries throughout the world. Founded in 1882, Taylor Lumber was acquired by Resilience Capital Partners in 2010.

Morgan Sindall, a holding company for a network of construction companies operating in the UK and the Channel Islands. The group's companies operate through five main divisions: fit out (refurbishing), construction, affordable housing, urban regeneration, and infrastructure services. It works on both public- and private-sector projects and also is involved in PPP (public/private partnerships) and joint venture arrangements. Subsidiaries include Lovell, Morgan Est, Morgan Lovell, Morgan Ashurst, and Overbury. The group also owns Backbone Furniture, a supplier for commercial interiors and Vivid Interiors, which fits out hotels, retail, and other faculties.

Quanex Building Products Corporation provides engineered products and aluminum sheet products. Its Engineered Products segment produces window and door components for original equipment manufacturers that primarily serve the residential construction and remodeling markets. This segments products consist of insulating glass spacer/sealant systems, thin film solar panel sealants, window and patio door screens, aluminum cladding and other roll formed metal window components, thresholds and astragals, moldings, residential exterior products, engineered vinyl and composite patio doors, window profiles and custom window grilles, and trim and architectural moldings in various woods primarily for the home improvement and residential construction markets.

General builder Lee Lewis Construction has waltzed across Texas and beyond to keep in step with the top US contractors. The company provides construction-related services and construction management for commercial, institutional, and industrial projects. Among its projects is the Garland ISD Special Events Center in Garland, Texas; it also worked on the Grand Floridian Resort at Walt Disney World. The company earns much of its revenue from projects for Texas school systems. Projects for hometown neighbor Texas Tech University have generated a significant portion of the company's business. CEO Lee Lewis founded the company in 1976.

Batenburg Beheer helps companies batten down their electrical needs with installation and automation services. The specialty contractor provides electrotechnical, mechanical, and sanitary installations to clients in the commercial building, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. It also offers related design and consulting services. Batenburg serves clients through about a dozen subsidiaries that operate primarily in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in France, Spain, and the UK. Sales are concentrated in the Benelux countries, with minimal exports to Europe and North America. Batenburg Beheer traces its roots to 1911 when Piet Batenburg started a technical installation company in Rotterdam.

Weekes Forest Products include lumber and plywood, decking, engineered woods, fasteners, house wrap, pine products, railing, and stains. Weekes Forest Products also provides such services as timber sawing and sizing, custom milling and cutting, factory finishing, and fire-retardant treating. It operates through locations in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. The company's North Star Forest Materials division sells lumber to truss manufacturers and lumber retailers throughout the Midwest, while Logan Lumber operates in Florida. Weekes Forest Products was founded in 1978.

Intercap eCommerce wants to provide a window (and door) to the world. Though it is headquartered in Alberta, Canada, Intercap eCommerce operates mainly through an 83%-ownership in China's Shanghai AL Door & Window Manufacture Co., which designs, makes, and installs aluminum alloy and PVC windows and doors. The manufacturer makes its products in a Shanghai factory and sells to the residential and commercial construction industries worldwide. At one point in the recent past, Intercap eCommerce lived up to its name -- it dabbled in eCommerce and operated a Web site designed to facilitate business ties between China and Canada.

WYG doesn't ask "why?" It asks "why not?" The British engineering company provides a variety of civil, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and structural engineering consulting services. In addition to its facilities in the UK, it also has operations in Ireland, Eastern Europe, and South Africa. Its services, however, are not confined to its office locations; the company has completed projects as far away as Malaysia and Oman. Subsidiaries include management consultancy DeLeeuw International, consulting engineers Adams Kara Taylor, and construction project manager Trench Farrow. Its work may be spread far and wide but the UK accounts for about two-thirds of sales at WYG, which was formed in 1959.

Great Southern Wood Preserving ain't no coward but its flagship product sure is yella. Great Southern Wood markets its pressure-treated pine for decks, fences, and landscaping projects under the YellaWood brand; other brands include N-Durz, FlameFreez, and RainWood. The company produces and distributes appearance-grade boards, dimensional lumber, heavy timbers, posts, fence panels, wood-alternative decking systems, and other specialty items. It operates about a dozen treating plants mostly in the Southeast. Products are then shipped to lumber yards and building supply stores. Great Southern also has its own trucking company, Greenbrush Logistics. The company was founded in 1970 by president and CEO Jimmy Rane.

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