Cincinnati Dowel & Wood Products manufactures wooden floor plugs, pins, buttons, and pegs as well as a variety of dowels. The company's products include boat deck plugs, dowel pins, hardwood dowels, joinery biscuits, pine dowels, screwhole plugs, shaker pegs, side grain plugs, stair plugs, and table pins. Cincinnati Dowel & Wood Products makes its products from a variety of Appalachian hardwoods and softwoods, including cherry, mahogany, maple, oak, poplar, and walnut. The company supplies both large and small manufacturing companies, as well as the consumer market.

The firm was founded by Scottish-born Henry Alexander, grandfather of chairman and CEO Patrick Alexander. Cold Spring Granite has been chipping away as a granite business since the late 1800s. The company operates about 30 granite quarries and five fabrication facilities in Canada and the US that produce 1.5 million net cube of granites per year for commercial, residential, and institutional use. Its granite products include floor tiles, countertop slabs, paving materials, and exterior building blocks; its Memorialization division makes upright monuments, bronze markers, urns, bases, and mausoleums. Cold Spring's granite can be found in national monuments, cemeteries, and the columns of Minnesota's state capitol.

RailWorks stays on track with construction services to railway and transit systems in the US and Canada. Through about a dozen operating subsidiaries, the specialty contractor builds and repairs tracks; provides installation of electrical and communications systems; and offers equipment and materials for track construction. Customers include short-line railroads, commuter railroads, transit authorities, municipalities, and power plants. Founded in 1998, RailWorks offers other services such as construction and maintenance on steel, concrete, and wooden railroad bridges. Wind Point Partners, along with company management, owns RailWorks.

Environmental Resources Management (ERM ) manages, maintains, and meters the resources of Mother Earth. The environmental consulting firm offers site development and remediation services, as well as technical services, for water and wastewater management, air quality assessment, and pollution control. With 137 offices in 39 countries ERM also provides facility operations and merger consulting services, including strategic advice, impact studies, contaminated sites management, and permitting assistance. Clients include Alcoa, Bayer, Del Monte, and Mattel. Bridgepoint Capital controls the company.

GEC Associates provides architectural, engineering, and construction management services for commercial, institutional, industrial, and government clients in Florida. The company performs mechanical, electrical, and plumbing services, as well as renovation, landscaping, painting, and HVAC work. The minority-owned firm has completed more than 220 major projects, including schools, hotels, federal government buildings, corporate facilities, restaurants, country clubs, parking lots, and a US Coast Guard air installation, since it was founded in 1989.

Weeks Marine doesn't drag its feet when it comes to dredging. The company is one of the largest providers of dredging services in the Gulf of Mexico, where a majority of all US dredging occurs. (Dredging involves the moving of sand and sediment to maintain, and often deepen, navigation channels at shipping ports.) The family-owned company also performs construction and demolition of bridges, piers, jetties, pipelines, and offshore platforms throughout North and South America. It is also one of the largest stevedoring (cargo handling) companies on the US East Coast. Weeks Marine was originally founded in 1919 as the Weeks Stevedoring Company.

Construction aggregates supplier Luck Stone Corporation produces a wide range of crushed stone, concrete, asphalt, architectural stone, pavers, and sand and gravel products for customers throughout the mid-Atlantic US. The company has more than 15 crushed stone plants in Virginia and North Carolina, in addition to six retail architectural stone centers in those states and Maryland. It serves the construction, homebuilding, remodeling, and agricultural markets. The company also produces mulch, topsoil, and other specialty products for turf, landscaping, and sports-surfacing applications.

Renaissance 3 Architects provides architecture and design services for businesses and individuals. These services involve the entire process from initial design to actual construction and renovation, as well as feasibility studies and development plans. Projects have included professional offices, learning and commercial institutions, residential homes, and research facilities/laboratories. Renaissance 3 caters to clients such as FedEx Ground, Mellon Bank, Prudential Realty, and the University of Pittsburgh.

Evapco keeps its cool especially under pressure. The company is a manufacturer of evaporative cooling and heat transfer equipment for both the commercial and industrial refrigeration markets. Its products include condensers, coolers, cooling towers, pressure vessels, recirculator packages, thermal ice coils, and water treatment systems. Evapco's products are used by customers engaged in food and beverage and industrial processing. It has sales offices, research and development centers, and manufacturing facilities in the US, Africa, Asia/Pacific, and Europe. Evapco is an employee-owned firm founded in 1976 by William Kahlert, Wilson Bradley, and John Luetkemeyer.

MWH Americas knows the ABCs of industrial design. The company, the Americas arm of employee-owned consulting firm MWH Global, provides engineering design and remediation, construction, procurement, program management, and technology services for the environmental, land, water, wastewater, energy, and power markets. Like its parent, it specializes in water, wastewater, and hydropower ("wet infrastructure") projects. Subsidiary MWH Laboratories performs analysis on potable and recycled water. MWH Americas has some 90 offices in the US, Canada, and Central and South America.MWH Global traces its back to the 1850s.

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