The Kleinfelder Group isn't afraid to get its hands dirty. Since its start as a materials testing lab in 1961, the company has expanded to become one of the largest engineering consulting and design groups in the US. Kleinfelder's operating subsidiaries offer soils and materials testing, geotechnical engineering, construction management, and environmental services. With about 50 domestic offices and locations in Australia and Guam, the group targets the energy, transportation, water, commercial/industrial, government, and education markets; projects run the gamut from building underground parking garages to establishing wind farms. Jim Kleinfelder, who retired in 1993, founded the employee-owned company.

Clear Lake Lumber is well known for its hardwood. Clear Lake Lumber, a family-owned business, produces hardwood lumber products from species that include white oak, red oak, hard maple, soft maple, ash, beech, hickory, black walnut, poplar, cherry, and more. Clear Lake Lumber distributes its products to clients worldwide. The company promotes sustainable forestry practices and offers logging and timberland management services. Clear Lake Lumber was founded in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania in 1973 and began the business by selling only green lumber.

MasTec, Inc. operates as a specialty contractor in the United States. It involves in the building, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of utility and communications infrastructure. The company builds wind farms, solar farms, and underground and overhead distribution systems, such as trenches, conduits, cable, power lines, and pipelines, which provide wireless and wireline communications, electrical power generation and delivery, and natural gas, crude oil, and refined products transport. It also installs buried and aerial fiber optic cables, coaxial cables, copper lines, electrical and other energy distribution systems, transmission systems, and satellite dishes, as well as deploys and manages network connections. In addition, MasTec offers regular maintenance of distribution facilities and networks, as well as provides emergency services for accidents or storm damage. It serves utility, communications, and government customers. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

Dynasonics Acoustics, the division of PCI Industries makes attenuators, duct silencers, casings, sound absorption panels, and louvers designed to eliminate noise in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems and other machinery. Dynasonics provides sound products and services to commercial and industrial customers, as well as for performance venues, throughout the world. Its products are sold through a network of sales representatives throughout the US and overseas. Dynasonics has been in operation for more than 30 years.

Mercedes Homes won't put you up in a Benz, but it can set you up in a stylish dwelling. The employee-owned company builds and sells single-family homes in 80 communities in Florida, Texas, and the Carolinas. One of its largest markets is the Orlando area. Mercedes Homes operates through three primary subsidiaries: MHi Mortgage, BDR Title, and Space Coast Truss, which offer everything from mortgage financing to truss design and building materials. Mercedes Homes' properties range in price from about $100,000 to more than $500,000. The family of founder Howard Buescher controls the company he began in 1983. Faced with mounting debt and liquidity problems, Mercedes filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009.

Hardwood Products Company manufactures woodenware items for applications in the dairy, foodservice, and crafts markets as well as for medical and industrial uses. Its food and craft products include skewers, sticks, spoons, and other items produced under the Gold Bond and Trophy brands. The company markets its single-use swabs, applicators, tongue depressors, and specialty products for medical and diagnostic applications under the Puritan brand. It also offers critical-environment cleaning applicators. Hardwood Products Company was founded in 1919.

J.E. Grant General Contractors, Inc. company provides in-depth management services, including market analysis, site evaluation and acquisition, design and cost control, agency coordination and turnkey construction. Grant General Contractors' extensive construction portfolio includes automotive agencies, banks, offices and other commercial buildings, business and industrial parks, refrigerated distribution facilities, shopping centers, and theaters.

Etex Group provides the tools of the contractor's trade. The company manufactures building materials for use in constructing roofs, floors, and walls in the Americas and Europe. Its roofing products include concrete and clay tiles; natural, resin, and fiber cement slates; and metal profiled sheets. Etex also produces flat boards used for a variety of purposes, such as sidings, passive fire protection, high-temperature insulation, and plasterboard. Etex operates through more than 90 subsidiaries in more than 40 countries. Europe accounts for about half of the company's revenues.

Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction quenches the world's thirst for power and water. The company, which is partially owned by Doosan, builds nuclear, thermal, combined cycle, cogeneration, and hydro-power plants worldwide, with projects under way in China, India, South Korea, and the US, among other countries. Doosan Heavy also specializes in building seawater desalination facilities, in addition to water and wastewater plants. Through various other divisions, it builds highways, subways, high-speed railroads, tunnels, gas pipelines, office buildings, and apartments, and supplies casting and forging products and materials handling equipment. Doosan Heavy was established in 1962.

Contrary to its name, Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) doesn't build iron bridges in Chicago. It is a global specialty engineering and construction company that designs and constructs energy infrastructure projects such as liquefied natural gas storage, petrochemical and gas processing plants, and heat transfer equipment. In addition to providing the technology used inside such facilities, the company also specializes in constructing storage tanks and other vessels. Major customers in each of these operating segments include CNOOC, Valero, Chevron, and SABIC. The company also serves other large corporations in the hydrocarbon, energy, power generation, and petrochemical industries.

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