Bristol Compressors was sold to KPS Capital Partners by Johnson Controls in 2007. What would air conditioners be without compressors? Probably just hunks of lifeless metal and plastic. Fortunately, Bristol Compressors is well aware of this. Bristol Compressors International, Inc. manufactures compressors that are used inside residential and commercial air conditioning units and heat pumps. Compressors turn refrigerant (Freon) from a cool gas into a hot, high-pressure gas that is then passed on to the condenser. Bristol Compressors International, Inc. sells its products -- under the Benchmark and Bristol brand names -- to HVAC original equipment manufacturers and wholesale distributors in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Athena Engineering specializes in the installation and design of heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, building automation, and other systems services for the commercial, food processing, health, and telecommunications industries. Athena also offers general construction, energy management, and environmental systems services. The company mostly works for both public and private entities in Southern California. In addition to being privately owned, Athena Engineering is one of the top women/minority-owned companies in the region. Athena Engineering was founded in 1984.

Clopay knows something about doors. Subsidiary Clopay Building Products makes residential and commercial garage doors for the remodel and new-build markets. With brand names including Clopay, Ideal Door, and Holmes, its products are distributed nationwide by independent contractors, home improvement stores, and wholesalers. The Home Depot and Menard are among its largest customers. Another subsidiary, Clopay Plastic Products, makes specialty plastic films for hygenic, medical, and industrial applications.

Graeber Simmons & Cowan (GS&C) provides architectural design services that include master planning, interior design, and product design. The company also provides move coordination services. Its clients include Sun Microsystems, Applied Materials, and The University of Texas. GS&C operates throughout the world. President and CEO Al Simmons is a founding principal of the company, which was established in 1978.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc. provides resource management services, primarily in the areas of solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services to the residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial customers in the United States. It offers non-hazardous solid waste services, including collection operations, transfer stations, material recycling facilities, and disposal facilities. The company also markets recyclable metals, aluminum, plastics, and paper and corrugated cardboard, which have been processed at its facilities; and recyclables purchased from third parties. In addition, it generates and sells electricity under a contract at a waste-to-energy facility. The company has operations in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It has a 50% joint venture with US GreenFiber LLC to manufacture, market, and sell cellulose insulation, which is used in residential dwellings and manufactured housings. As of August 31, 2010, the company owned and/or operated 31 solid waste collection operations, 30 transfer stations, 34 recycling facilities, 8 subtitle D landfills, and 1 landfill permitted to accept construction and demolition materials, as well as 1 waste-to-energy facility. Casella Waste Systems, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in Rutland, Vermont.

Cole Hardwood processes and distributes a variety of hardwood lumber products from species that include ash, basswood, cherry, hard and soft maple, red and white oak, walnut, hickory, and poplar. Cole Hardwood operates a 32-acre facility, where it receives rough lumber at its on-premise rail spur. The company also has its own fleet of trucks for delivering hardwood orders to its Indiana customers.

Weis Builders is ranked among the top U.S. construction companies by Engineering News Record. We complete projects throughout the country from five office locations: Minneapolis and Rochester, MN; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; and Charlotte, NC.Weis Builders excels in various markets, including multi-unit residential, senior living, hospitality, retail, commercial and healthcare. We support the development needs of our clients by providing delivery methods such as design/build, general contracting and construction management. In the end, it all comes down to successful relationships with our clients.

Boustead Singapore Limited, the company offers many options in the engineering services and geospatial technology arenas. Founded as a shipping and trading company in 1828, Boustead Limited has grown into a holding company for businesses in the engineering services industry serving clients in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. It provides engineering consulting and design services through its four subsidiaries, offering expertise in energy, water and wastewater, and industrial real estate. Projects include oil and gas infrastructure, water treatment plants, and other industrial plants. The company also distributes ESRI's geographic information technology in Australia and Asia.

Holloman isn't the stuff of poetry, but rather the Texas oil patch. Employee-owned Holloman installs, repairs, and upgrades pipelines for the oil and gas industry, public and private utilities that handle water and wastewater, and sports facilities. Holloman also builds or upgrades gas compressor stations, petroleum processing plants, and utility pump stations. The company's in-house engineering staff designs and constructs process plants for its oil and gas clients; it also seeks out civil, mechanical, or process jobs. Subsidiary Holloman Minerals explores for minerals including uranium in Australia. Sam Holloman founded the company in 1967.

Smith-Midland Corporation and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture, license, sell, and install precast concrete products for the general contractors in the construction, farming, and utilities industries, as well as federal, state, and local transportation authorities in the Mid-Atlantic, northeastern, and Midwestern regions of the United States. Its products include Easi-Set Slenderwall lightweight construction panels, which are prefabricated lightweight exterior cladding systems used for constructing the exterior walls of buildings; Easi-Set Sierra Wall that provides sound and sight barrier used around residential, industrial, and commercial properties and alongside highways; and Easi-Set J-J Hooks Highway Safety Barrier, a safety barrier for use on roadways to separate lanes of traffic. Smith-Midland Corporationalso offers Easi-Span expandable precast building; Easi-Set Precast building, a transportable, prefabricated, single-story, and concrete building for use in housing communication operations, traffic control systems, mechanical and electrical stations, inventory or supply storage, and restroom facilities or kiosks; and Easi-Set Utility Vault used for house equipment, such as cable, telephone or traffic signal equipment, and for underground storage. In addition, Smith-Midland Corporation provides Softsound soundwall panels, which are used to absorb highway noise; Beach Prisms, a shoreline erosion control product; and H2Out, a secondary drainage and street level leak detection product for panelized exterior cladding. Further, licenses its proprietary products to precast concrete manufacturers in the United States, Canada, Belgium, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Spain, and Chile. Smith-Midland Corporation was formerly known as Smith Cattleguard Company and changed its name to Smith-Midland Corporation in 1985. Smith-Midland Corporation was founded in 1960 and is based in Midland, Virginia.

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