S. T. Wooten Corporation is a heavy construction firm that specializes in building roads and other civil infrastructure projects in the Carolinas, Florida, and other southeastern states. It operates through more than a half dozen business units: asphalt, commercial, quality concrete, ready mix concrete, heavy grade, structures, and utilities. It has 13 asphalt plants and 17 ready-mix concrete plants. Seth T. Wooten Sr. founded the company in Stantonsburg, North Carolina, in 1952. Seth Wooten Jr. serves as the company's CEO; the Wooten family continues to own the business.

KHS&S Contractors, which specializes in wall and ceiling construction, including interior, exterior, acoustical, and insulation work. KHS&S is also one of the largest theme park contractors in the US and provides water feature and rockwork technology and concrete/tilt-up construction through its d2i venture. Founded in 1984, the specialty contractor has worked on projects for Universal Studios Islands of Adventure and for Walt Disney Parks & Resorts. KHS&S also works on convention centers, health care facilities, office buildings, laboratories, and other commercial projects.

CCC Group performs a laundry list of construction services, including site development, civil engineering, construction management, marine construction, mining equipment erection and dismantling, plant expansions, and specialized equipment installation. Customers include oil and gas companies, metals and chemicals firms, utilities, and municipalities. Its home state of Texas represents its largest market; the company also has offices in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, South Carolina, and Utah. CCC Group's predecessor was founded in 1947; the company implemented a stock ownership plan in 2004.

Aker Construction is part of the North American union construction and maintenance division of Norway-based Aker Solutions. Active in the US and Canada, the company provides heavy and civil construction and renovation services for power generation plants and other industrial projects. Aker Construction offers services such as prime contracting, electrical work, equipment setting, heavy mechanical contracting, steel erection, piping, and construction management. After Aker Solutions sold most of its process and construction operations (including non-union businesses) to Jacobs in 2011, its union construction division, including Aker Construction, was transferred to the newly formed Aker Contractors segment.

Falstrom Company's strength lies in providing contract manufacturing of precision steel parts and fittings for the defense and aerospace industries. The firm's custom electronic enclosures and assemblies are designed for the US military, primarily the US Navy, and selected commercial clients, such as General Electric, ITT, Lockheed Martin, Pitney Bowes, and Rockwell, among others. Its services include fabrication, welding, painting, finishing, testing, and mechanical and electronic assembly. The company started out as a small metal fabricating shop founded in 1870 by Swedish immigrant Gustav Falstrom and is operated by a fourth generation of descendants.

Liberty Homes, Inc. and its subsidiaries engage in the design, manufacture, and wholesale of manufactured homes and modular homes throughout the United States. The company's manufactured home consists of a living room, dining room or area, a kitchen, bedrooms, and one or more baths. It also produces various homes with additional living spaces, such as family rooms, sunrooms, dens, utility rooms, and porches. The homes are equipped with central heating, carpeting, coordinated colors, and interior decoration. The company's modular home is built in two or three sections and is similar to a multisection manufactured home without a permanent steel chassis. It operates manufacturing plants in Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The company sells its products to various independent retailers and builder developers. In addition, it sells at retail through two subsidiaries in Indiana and North Carolina. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Goshen, Indiana.

FAFCO runs hot and cold. The company makes solar swimming pool-heating systems, solar hot water heaters, and thermal energy storage systems. FAFCO's heating systems utilize solar panels to control the temperature of water. Its solar domestic hot water system, Hot2o, was developed as a result of a 10-year partnership with the Department of Energy. The company also manufactures IceStor -- a product that controls commercial cooling costs by storing energy at night during off-peak times, and then releasing it to cool buildings during the day. Customers include schools, hotels, and offices. Its solar water heaters are marketed to homeowners. FAFCO was founded in 1969 by chairman Freeman Ford and Richard Rhodes.

Clarion Bathware is a good place to start if you want to cry, "take me away, Calgon." The company manufactures gel-coated fiberglass and acrylic products such as assisted-living shower and tub models, whirlpools, shower stalls, and soaker tubs. The company markets and sells its products through an extensive network of sales representatives to supply houses, plumbing contractors, builders, and remodeling customers. Clarion Bathware was founded in 1973.

Fischer is King of its subdivisions. Residential developer Fischer Homes builds single-family houses, town houses, and condominiums in communities in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. It also builds stand-alone patio homes, ranch homes in planned subdivisions offering landscaping services and themed streetscapes. Fischer also markets homes under the brands Maple Street Homes and Grand Estates. The company's homes range in price from $100,000 to $650,000; it targets first-time buyers, large families, and empty nesters. Fischer Homes often partners with other area builders and developers in its investments. Principal company owner Henry Fischer formed the company in 1980.

Waste Industries USA, Inc.,the active consolidator has made more than 130 acquisitions since 1990. When it's not buying companies, Waste Industries USA is collecting, hauling, and disposing of solid waste for 875,000 municipal, residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the southeastern US. The company has 34 collection operations, and about 65 drop-off centers, 29 transfer stations, 12 recycling facilities and nine landfills. In 2008 Chairman Lonnie Pool Jr. led an investor group that took the company private for about $544 million.

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