Hickman Lumber Co. produces hardwood logs for domestic and foreign markets. Its main unit produces 10 million board feet of hardwood logs per year with an emphasis on black cherry, ash, and white hard maple. Through its Hickman Timber Management subsidiary, the company manages woodlands for private and corporate owners, trusts, and estates. Its Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring company manufactures flooring, specializing in rift and quartered red and white oak. Founder Harry Hickman opened the family's first sawmill in 1938. The Hickman family continues to own and manage Hickman Lumber.

Psomas, the engineering firm offers construction management, land surveying, water resource planning, environmental, and civil engineering services mainly to the water, transportation, and land development markets in the Western US. The company has both public and private sector clients. Among the projects it has had a hand in developing are the Los Angeles International Airport, Port of Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Psomas has offices throughout California, as well as in Arizona an Utah. The family-owned firm was founded in 1946 by George Psomas.

Founded in 1949, Nabholz is a general contractor that offers a variety of commercial construction services, including pre-construction, excavation, project management, street and roadway paving, concrete work, and steel structure assembly. The company, which operates primarily in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, provides its services through several specialty divisions and through partnerships with third-party companies. Its completed projects include hospitals, churches, industrial buildings, as well as high school and university facilities. A private company, Nabholz is employee-owned and operated.

M. A. Mortenson Company,the general contractor performs construction, development, and design-build services for a variety of projects. Sectors served include aviation, corporate, education, electronics and semiconductors, entertainment, health care, hospitality, manufacturing, and retail; the company also has groups devoted to federal contracting, sports venues, facilities operations, and renewable energy, including wind farms and biofuel facilities. Active throughout the US, the company also has operations in China, helping its domestic clients to expand into markets there. M.A. Mortenson has about 10 offices, including a location in Shanghai.

Lehigh Hanson, Inc. has a big crush on the concrete materials business in North America. The company, which is part of German construction materials firm HeidelbergCement, produces ready mixed concrete, aggregates, concrete block, concrete pipe, and pre-stressed concrete products in the US and Canada. Lehigh Hanson companies include Lehigh Cement Company and Hanson's North American operations. Other companies under the Leigh Hanson umbrella include Hanson Pipe & Precast, which makes concrete pipes, manholes, and precast concrete products and Hanson Brick & Tile.

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.

Huitt-Zollars makes its dollars as a design firm. The company provides a wide spectrum of services including civil, traffic, mechanical, electrical, structural, and environmental engineering; construction and program management; surveying; landscape architecture; and architectural planning. Clients include government agencies, institutions, private corporations, and industrial firms. Huitt-Zollars has worked on a variety of projects such as schools, airports, highways, and urban development. The firm operates throughout the US, with 15 offices in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington. E. Larry Huitt and Robert Zollars founded the company in 1975.

Avalon Holdings Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides hazardous and nonhazardous waste brokerage and management services to industrial, commercial, municipal, and governmental customers primarily in certain northeastern and mid western United States markets. It also offers captive landfill management services. In addition, the company operates golf courses and related facilities, and a travel agency. Avalon Holdings Corporation was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Warren, Ohio.

Fullmer Construction is full of ideas when it comes to commercial construction. The company, which does business as Fullmer Companies, provides commercial and industrial construction and reconstruction service in Southern California, including tenant improvements. Typical projects include industrial centers, airport facilities, and office/warehouse spaces. The company has built more than 2,000 buildings totaling about 98 million sq. ft. of space. Fullmer was founded in 1946; founder Leonard Fullmer still serves as a consultant to the family-controlled firm.

Rosboro Lumber is deeply rooted in building supplies. The company produces a wide variety of products, including studs and plywood for the homebuilding market, laminated beams and frames for heavy construction, and hardwood door and window frames through subsidiary Washington Hardwoods. The company owns timberlands in western Oregon; it also buys timber from other public and private land owners. Rosboro operates about a half-dozen production facilities. It sells its products to customers in the US, Canada, Latin America, and Japan. A group of about 60 investors owns Rosboro. T. W. "Whit" Rosborough founded the company as a small lumber mill in the 1930s.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.