Dal-Tile Corporation, a subsidiary of Mohawk Industries, manufactures, distributes and markets high-quality ceramic tile and natural stone products. Dal-Tile is the largest ceramic tile manufacturer in the U.S. and one of the largest tile manufacturers in the world employing over 10,000 associates. We currently operate eight manufacturing facilities (seven in the U.S. and one in Mexico), five Regional Distribution Centers, and over 250 Sales Service Centers (SSCs) throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Dal-Tile products are sold through company owned SSCs, home centers (i.e. Home Depot and Lowes) and through independent distributors.

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., the company has a long history of converting swords into plowshares, or in this case, nuclear weapons into nuclear fuel. It converts weapons-grade highly enriched uranium to low-enriched uranium that can be used as fuel for nuclear power plants. NFS also provides decontamination, decommissioning, and remediation of nuclear sites, as well as packaging and shipping of nuclear materials. The company was acquired by Babcock & Wilcox in 2008 for almost $160 million.

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.

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.

Messer Construction Company, the company provides commercial construction services including design/build and construction management for projects in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. It completes some $700 million in construction each year. Projects have included one of the only LEED-certified research buildings in the US (at the University of Louisville) and the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky. The company boasts a return-customer rate of about 80%. Frank Messer founded the employee-owned firm in 1932.

Crystal Windows & Door Systems Ltd, an award-winning state-of-the-art manufacturer, offers a wide array of energy management solutions for architects, developers, and property owners. Where energy management used to be a secondary priority, today companies and property owners are taking a hard look at long term energy management solutions at every juncture of the building design process. Programs such as LEEDS, and sustainable design initiatives are challenging the status quo, as designers seek to integrate sophisticated systems that reduce building management HVAC system reliance on fossil fuels.

Starfire Lumber produces planed and rough Douglas fir lumber products from its western Oregon cutting mill. The company operates sales networks in the Pacific Rim, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. Starfire Lumber, formerly an old cedar mill, was incorporated in 1983 by Francis Engle, the company's former chairman. The Engle family continues to control the company.

Willerby Holiday Homes makes manufactured vacation homes, which are sold through dealers and mobile home parks in the UK and Europe. The upscale homes are generally equipped with most appliances and furniture as well as stainless steel and porcelain fixtures and central heating. Willerby, which began as a travel trailer manufacturer, has brought innovations like central heating, double glazed windows, cathedral ceilings, and pitched roofs from traditional homes to the manufactured home market. One of the largest manufactured home companies in the UK with 30% of the market, Willerby is owned by Scaid Investments. It was incorporated in 1944.

Grasim is in touch with its soft side and its tough side. Once primarily a textile manufacturer, Grasim Industries Limited is also engaged in the production of cement and chemicals. Grasim makes 18 million meters of textiles a year in its Haryana and Madhya Pradesh plants in India; its synthetic suiting (sold under the Grasim and Graviera brand names) is sold in a network of more than 250 showrooms and wholesalers. Grasim Industries Limited also produces viscose staple fiber (VSF). Grasim is a major producer of cement; it ventured into cement production in the 1980s and now operates about two dozen plants throughout India. A subsidiary of Aditya Birla, Grasim was established in 1948.

Taylor Morrison, Inc. company, a wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based Taylor Wimpey, builds mid- to high-end homes and condominiums. Home prices range from the $100,000s to over $1 million. The company offers custom home designing options through its Design Studio and financing through Taylor Morrison Home Funding. The home builder has more than 280 communities under construction in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Texas. It also operates under the Monarch brand in Canada. Taylor Morrison first began building in North America in 1936.

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