CIMPOR was created in 1976 as a state-owned entity, but the government of Portugal sold the last of its stake in 2001. CIMPOR - Cimentos de Portugal finds it easy to be hard. CIMPOR is Portugal's largest cement manufacturer and one of the largest on the Iberian Peninsula. The company produces and markets more than 31 million tons of cement around the world each year. CIMPOR also produces aggregate, concrete and precast concrete products, hydraulic lime, and dry mortars. The company operates in about a dozen countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America; about half of its cement is manufactured in Spain and Portugal.

Bache Pallets Ltd company is a UK-based manufacturer of material-handling equipment. Products include metal pallets, roll containers, and pallet converters. Customers include the automotive, construction, agriculture, foundry and forging, and retail industries, as well as the UK Ministry of Defence. Among Bache Pallets' recent clients are Land Rover, Royal Mail, and Caterpillar. The company utilizes computer-aided design to ensure its products meet specifications, and automated production lines to ensure a proper build. Bache Pallets has been in business for more than 50 years.

Safety and Ecology Corporation,the specialty engineering firm provides environmental remediation of radiological and other hazardous wastes, as well as facility decontamination and demolition. Other services include industrial health and safety; radiological/industrial hygiene instrumentation rental, calibration, and repair; and waste and material management and disposal. Safety and Ecology has also created a mobile emergency response unit to handle chemical, biological, or radioactive hazards. The company, which is owned by Homeland Security Capital Corporation, has offices across the US and in the UK.

Harland and Wolff's (H&W) ship has sailed. After launching vessels from its Belfast shipyard since 1861, the company has closed down most of its shipbuilding operations. Famous as the builder of the "Titanic", H&W is now focused on design services, heavy engineering, and contract projects such as ship repair and structural jobs. It is involved in ship conversion, steel fabrication, and some shipbuilding. It participated in building the Black Hall Place Bridge in Dublin. It is developing a research and tourism area called Titanic Quarter at its Queen's Island site. H&W has also entered the renewable energy industry, assembling wind turbines. Norwegian shipping firm Fred. Olsen Energy owns the company.

Orleans Homebuilders (OHB) prefers the City of Brotherly Love to The Big Easy. OHB builds communities of single-family homes, condos, and townhomes for first-time and move-up buyers, luxury homebuyers, empty nesters, and active adult homebuyers. Prices range from $165,000 to more than $2.3 million, depending on the region. OHB operates mainly in the Philadelphia metro area, New Jersey, New York, the Carolinas, and Virginia. It is also active in Orlando and Chicago. OHB also offers mortgage services, which approximately three-fourths of its buyers utilize. Hit hard by the US housing downturn, OHB filed for Chapter 11 protection in early 2010, seeking to restructure its debts.

spear for Speer Industries Incorporated. Doing business as Speer Mechanical, the company offers mechanical design, construction, and preventive maintenance services for industrial, commercial, and institutional markets throughout Ohio. Speer Mechanical offers mechanical expertise for plumbing, HVAC, and building automation systems as well as custom fabrication prefabricated components from its in-house workshop. The company's portfolio includes state, local, and federal government projects and work for private colleges, manufacturers, and health care facilities.

S&ME old engineering company. S&ME, which services both public and private entities, focuses on environmental and engineering services. Its main areas of expertise are: geotechnical engineering; environmental engineering; natural and cultural resource preservation; occupational health and safety; constructional materials engineering and testing; and water resources and solid waste engineering. Employee-owned S&ME was founded as Soils & Materials Engineering in 1973. The company, which mainly serves the Southeast, operates from about 30 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S company designs, builds, operates, and maintains diesel engine-based power plants for both independent power producers and power-generating industrial corporations around the world. Services include installing distribution systems and transmission lines, retrofitting older plants to help reduce gas emissions, and providing technical support and training. Customers have included Caribbean Utilities Company, Greek Public Power Corporation, and the Danish and UK governments. BWSC is a subsidiary of Japan-based Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding.

BDR Thermea is a world leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative heating and hot water systems and services, operating in a market worth over €16 billion of annual sales. We employ more than 6,400 people across Europe with a turnover of almost 1,7 billion (2009). The group has a top market position in six key countries: UK, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy and strong positions in the rapidly growing markets of Eastern Europe, Turkey, Russia, North America and China. In total BDR Thermea operates in more than 70 countries worldwide. The strategy of the group involves marketing under multiple local brands, with strong national operations in the major European economies allowing for rapid reaction to changes in local demand. BDR Thermea owns and sells some of the leading brands in the European market for heating products. These include De Dietrich, Baxi, Remeha, Heatrae Sadia, Brötje, Potterton, Chappée, BaxiRoca and Baymak.BDR Thermea believes relations with all stakeholders are very important. Therefore we invest in our employees and we maintain open and sustainable relationships with external stakeholders. We focus on customer needs regarding innovative climate and hot water solutions and services, offering systems instead of only single products. The strong R&D platform and the financial strength of BDR Thermea provide the opportunity to confirm and build on the leadership in the emerging market for low carbon micro combined heat and power products. In addition to manufacturing high efficiency boilers, we are committed to new heating technologies that can play a major role in tackling climate change. Our product range already includes biomass boilers, solar collectors and heat pump products as well as unparalleled developments in what will be tomorrow's favoured heating solution, mCHP.

KSW may have a need to vent on occasion, but the company still knows how to keep its cool. Its KSW Mechanical Services subsidiary installs HVAC and process piping systems for large-scale industrial, commercial, institutional public, and residential projects. The company also provides mechanical trade management services and engineering assistance. KSW primarily works in the New York metropolitan area but hopes to expand in the Northeast. Much of KSW's business comes from repeat customers; the company is an authorized bidder for agencies including the New York City Transit Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

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