Fisher Development is a big fish in the tenant improvement general contracting sector. The company provides core/shell and historic preservation construction services for retail stores, restaurants, and corporate offices throughout the US and Canada. It also provides construction management and design/build services for its clients. Fisher Development builds for some of the top names in retail, including Sephora, Gap, Tiffany & Co., Foot Locker, and Williams-Sonoma. The company was originally founded as a residential subdivision builder in 1971 by chairman and owner Robert Fisher, brother of Gap founder and chairman Donald Fisher. The firm shifted to retail construction after building for Gap.

Intercap eCommerce wants to provide a window (and door) to the world. Though it is headquartered in Alberta, Canada, Intercap eCommerce operates mainly through an 83%-ownership in China's Shanghai AL Door & Window Manufacture Co., which designs, makes, and installs aluminum alloy and PVC windows and doors. The manufacturer makes its products in a Shanghai factory and sells to the residential and commercial construction industries worldwide. At one point in the recent past, Intercap eCommerce lived up to its name -- it dabbled in eCommerce and operated a Web site designed to facilitate business ties between China and Canada.

Professional Service Industries, Inc., the company, which is known as PSI, provides testing for lead-based paint and asbestos, among other services. One of the largest engineering and environmental consulting firms in North America, PSI also is one of the leading independent testing organizations. Its services include geotechnical engineering, soil and materials testing, and facilities and roof consulting. The company provides its testing and consulting services to companies involved in site selection, design, construction, and property management. Investment firm Olympus Partners owns a controlling stake in PSI.

ARCADIS works globally but thinks locally. The company is built around an international engineering practice that works on environmental, infrastructure, construction, and communications projects with a special focus on environmental quality. (Its logo, a salamander, which is at home on land or in the water, symbolizes the company's philosophy of striving for ecological balance.) Its three service areas comprise infrastructure (public-private partnerships, water-wastewater, and rail infrastructure), facilities (asset and facilities management), and the environment (remediation and sustainability services). The company has trained its sights specifically on building its rail business, among other goals.

PCI Industries blows hot and cold. Operating through two divisions, the company distributes and manufactures a variety of products for the heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry. Its Air Product Sales division distributes commercial HVAC products to customers primarily in the southern California area, while its manufacturing division makes damper, louver, silencer, and architectural sun control products sold under five primary brands: flagship louver and damper brand Pottorff, C&S Air Products, Dynasonics, All-Lite Architectural Products, and AirManagers.

Carter Holt Harvey's livelihood is tucked among the trees. It is a leading forest products company in Australasia, with multiple business units that manufacture wood products, packaging, and pulp and paper. Products range from paper bags and cartons to particleboard flooring and structural plywood. Brands include Bestwood, Customwood, Ecoply, Kopine, and Pinex. It is a major supplier and exporter of products to customers in the construction and food and beverage industries worldwide. Its Fullcircle division is a paper recycler that supplies several of the company's mills in New Zealand. Carter Holt Harvey also owns and operates more than 50 branches of the Carters hardware store chain in New Zealand.

Donald Dean & Sons is a national supplier of wood products, including cabinet doors, drawer fronts, frame parts, and specialty doors. The company also crafts and distributes a line of unfinished butcher block furniture that includes tables, stools, benches, and counter bars. The company operates two manufacturing facilities, as well as modern dry kilns and lumber storage sheds. Donald Dean & Sons, now in its third generation of ownership (led by president Susan Dean), was started by Donald Dean as a modest sawmill operation in the early 1930s.

Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. company manufactures solid wood kitchen cabinets, doors, drawer fronts, mouldings, and decorative accessories (such as table legs, columns, and bun feet) at its seven plants located in Arkansas, Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, and Pennsylvania. The company offers a variety of wood species and finishes. Conestoga has an OEM/contract division to serve high-volume customers and a custom division that serves the custom kitchen and bath industry. The company sells only to woodworking professionals. Brothers Norman and Samuel Hahn founded Conestoga in 1964.

Prime Plastic Products actually goes by the three "R's" -- reduce, reuse, and recycle. The company buys plastic waste and scrap and recycles it into pellets. It will also buy film scrap, reprocessed pellets, surplus resins, and about a dozen grades of plastic, including PVC, nylon, and consumer plastics with SPI resin identification codes #4, #5 and #6. Prime Plastic Products also sells reprocessed pellets ready to be turned into soda bottles, milk jugs, and grocery bags. The company operates in 12 states spread fairly evenly throughout the country. CEO Vineet "Vince" Gupta, who started Prime Plastic Products in 1993, learned the trade from his father, who owned a plastics company in India.

Sino-Forest Corporation owns and manages some 350,000 hectares of forest plantations in China. It produces and sells logs, wood chips, engineered wood products, and standing timber. With timberland locations near major manufacturing hubs and consumer markets, the company is one of the top commercial wood fiber suppliers in the nation. Sino-Forest was founded in 1994 and was the first foreign and privately managed forest products firm to enter China.

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