Sierra Pacific Industries company owns and manages about 2 million acres of timberland in California and Washington. With a network of sawmills, it is among the top lumber producers in the US. SPI's manufacturing plants also produce mouldings and millwork, windows and doors, fencing, and wood fiber by-products, such as chips, bark, and shavings. Several of its sawmills also house cogeneration facilities that recycle wood waste into power for its plants; excess electricity is sold to local public utilities. Additionally, SPI is involved in residential and commercial real estate. The company traces its roots to the 1920s when it was founded by R. H. "Curly" Emmerson.

Trandes is right there in the trenches with the US government. The contractor provides engineering services for the Department of Defense (primarily the US Navy) and other federal agencies. Its offerings range from the repair of advanced communications equipment and systems engineering to acquisitions support and field services. Trandes also provides IT services including systems design, technical support, and training. The company has about a half-dozen offices strategically located near military locations in Florida, California, and near Washington, DC. CEO James Brusse founded Trandes in 1972 to provide the public transportation sector with software design and support services.

Hardwoods of Michigan is a sawmill and kiln-drying operation that produces some 2 million board feet of lumber per month. It utilizes such species as ash, cherry, hard and soft maple, hickory, poplar, red and white oak, and walnut. The company's products include boards ranging from 1 in. to 5 in. thick (specializing in cuts between 2 in. and 3 in.), grade lumber, timber, pallet stock, and steel mill blocking, as well as mulch, wood chips, sawdust, and shavings. Hardwoods of Michigan also owns Walker Lumber Company in Woodland, Pennsylvania. Its Tri County Logging unit purchases and harvests timber for the mill.

British Gypsum Limited has five manufacturing plants in the UK. A fitting theme song for British Gypsum might be Pink Floyd's The Wall. British Gypsum Limited company is one of the UK's leading makers of plasterboard for walls and ceilings (sold under the Gyproc and Glasroc brands). British Gypsum also makes metal studs and channels for its wall systems and produces Thistle brand plaster products. Arteco makes its performance and acoustic tiles used by hospitals, schools, and offices.

Becon Construction Company can handle the project from start to finish. The company provides construction and plant services for the industrial, petroleum, chemical, mining, and power industries throughout the US. Becon has served such clients as Anheuser-Busch, the US Air Force, Chevron, and Houston Lighting and Power. Prominent projects include the expansion of a refinery and the construction of an LNG terminal in the US Gulf Coast. Parent Bechtel Group founded Becon Construction as an open shop contractor (meaning workers can be either union or non-union) in 1978.

Titan America is a heavyweight in the US construction materials market. The company is a supplier of cement and other building materials, including concrete blocks, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates. The firm is the US arm of Greece-based Titan Cement and has operations along the East Coast and South. Titan American includes companies such as Essex Cement (cement storage and logistics), Roanoke Cement (portland and masonry cement), Separation Technologies (fly-ash processing), Tarmac America (ready-mix concrete, concrete blocks, and sand), and Titan Virginia Ready-Mix (ready-mix concrete). Titan Florida Cement and Aggregates produces cement near Miami.

Warings Contractors provides building services to a number of different sectors, including residential, commercial, and industrial. In addition, the design/build company has worked on defense-related projects, built airport structures, and constructed leisure properties such as hotels and country clubs. Warings, which operates in southern England, has also been part of J Sainsbury's store reinvigoration project in that region. The firm began as a small family-owned business in Yorkshire that relocated to Portsmouth in 1933. It was bought out by management in 1998, then acquired by French construction firm Bouygues SA in 2007.

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.

Caltagirone has its roots firmly set in concrete. Founded as cement manufacturer G. Vianini & Co. in 1890, the holding company participates in residential, industrial, and public building projects, including dams, tunnels, and roads throughout Italy and other parts of Europe. It operates in cement businesses through its Cementir subsidiary. Caltagirone also has real estate and media interests. Its Caltagirone Editore unit publishes daily newspapers Il Mattino and Il Messaggero, and it has a 52% stake in Il Gazzetino. Caltagirone Editore also operates the Internet portal Caltanet. The Caltagirone family, with a nearly 55% stake, has controlled the company since 1984.

Dectron Internationale (DECT) was officially launched as a public corporation and has been trading in NASDAQ since fall of 1998 to March 2007 and the TSX since May 2005. The corporation originates from a consortium of private companies in the Indoor Air Quality industry.Dectron was founded in 1976 with the objective of preventing structural damage caused by high levels of humidity in indoor pools. In this pursuit, Dectron pioneers the indoor pool dehumidification market with the introduction of the DRY-O-TRON®, a mechanical dehumidification system that uses a revolutionary energy saving feature that controls humidity levels while helping maintain comfortable temperature levels of the pool’s water as well as the air inside the building.

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