Duratex counts on durability. It makes wood products including hardboard, particle board, and fiberboard from a dozen plants throughout Brazil. The firm sources its own wood with more than 200,000 hectares of primarily eucalyptus forest and has an annual production capacity of approximately 4 million cu. meters of paneling and 6 million sq. meters of laminate flooring. Its products are used for residential and commercial construction and to make furniture and toys. Duratex also makes vitreous china and metal fittings for bathroom use under the Deca brand.

Austin Commercial, a unit of construction group Austin Industries, provides general contracting, design/build, preconstruction, and construction management services for a range of commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, primarily in the Sun Belt. The group tackles projects ranging from airport terminals to horse racing facilities and steel mills to diaper factories, as well as corporate headquarters and health care, hospitality, and educational buildings. It also is known for its environmentally-friendly construction projects. Customers have included American Airlines, ExxonMobil, and IBM. Austin Commercial operates nine offices in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, California, and Florida.

Pfister, they are continually exploring ways to improve our products so they meet future eco-friendly standards, are more user friendly in terms of installation, incorporate the latest technological advances, are ergonomically superior and reflect the latest trends in design and style. We also want to continue to find new ways to make our products more affordable without compromising our high standards of quality.

Grohe goes with the flow. As Europe's leading manufacturer of sanitary fittings and water technology products, the company offers medium- and high-end products (shower heads and systems, faucet fittings, and flushing, installation, and water management systems) for residential, public, and commercial installations. Grohe has manufacturing plants in Canada, Germany, Portugal, and Thailand; about 20 marketing subsidiaries worldwide; and sales offices in 130 countries.

Choate Construction provides design/build, preconstruction, and management services for the construction of commercial and public facilities. It has experience in a wide range of projects including automotive showrooms, manufacturing plants, office buildings, schools, and condominiums. Completed projects include a dormitory on The University of Georgia-East campus, golf clubhouses, and a distribution warehouse for Crate & Barrel. The company has offices in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina and is licensed to build throughout the US.

Cementos Portland Valderrivas is 67%-owned by construction firm Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas. Cementos Portland Valderrivas has built a business on a strong foundation. The company, founded in 1903, produces some 18 million tons of cement and clinker (an intermediate product used to make portland cement) annually at 15 plants in Spain, the US, South America, Africa, and Europe. Its acquisition of 64% of Corporacion Uniland cemented its position as the #1 cement producer in Spain. In the eastern US, the company makes and distributes cement, gravel, and sand through Giant Cement Holding. It also produces concrete, operates lime factories, and has transportation companies.

Knife River Corporation. The company mines aggregates and markets raw construction materials including crushed stone, gravel, and sand. Other construction materials include asphalt, liquid asphalt cement, and ready-mix concrete. Knife River has operations in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, and Wyoming. The company also provides such integrated construction services as site development, highway construction, and wind farm construction in the central and western US, including Alaska and Hawaii. Knife River is a subsidiary of MDU Resources .

Glenn O. Hawbaker (GOH), it's all about making the grade. Founded as an excavating and grading company, GOH provides heavy construction, concrete construction, utility work, asphalt production, and heavy equipment rentals and sales. From its home base in Pennsylvania, the company serves customers in the north-central portion of the state. GOH also operates 17 quarries and eight asphalt production facilities in Pennsylvania and New York. Its Hawbaker Engineering subsidiary provides civil engineering services and site designs. The family-owned company was founded in 1952 by Glenn and Thelma Hawbaker, the parents of president and CEO Daniel Hawbaker.

Plasti-Fab’s mission is to provide EPS Product Solutions for constructing energy-efficient buildings, floatation for marine construction, lightweight fill and compressible fill for geotechnical construction projects, and component solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers. Advantage ICF is a one-piece, stay-in-place, insulating concrete form made of expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation. A series of strong plastic web connectors are permanently molded into two EPS panels to create a building block. Advantage ICFs have a patented interlocking system along the top and bottom edges. Reinforcing steel is placed on the plastic web connectors inside the block cavity which is then filled with concrete, providing a highly energy-efficient building envelope.

A. O. Smith Water Products Company makes commercial and residential water heating equipment under such brands as Cyclone, Genesis, and Vertex. It also makes solar panel water heaters under the Cirrex name. Products include commercial boilers, commercial natural gas water heaters, residential electric and natural gas water heaters, expansion tanks, and pump tanks. Products are sold through a network of wholesale distributors, as well as through retail chains Sears and Lowes. More than 15 manufacturing plants are located in North America, Mexico, China, the Netherlands, and India. A. O. Smith Water Products Company, a division of A. O. Smith, is always in hot water -- and it works to assure that its customers are, too.

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