Stella-Jones is under pressure. In addition to utility poles, the company produces pressure-treated timber and railway ties from species that include maple, oak, ash, birch, pine, hemlock, and Douglas fir. It also produces marine and foundation pilings, guardrails, and other industrial treated wood products and such consumer products as dimension lumber, fence board, and plywood. Stella-Jones expanded its capabilities in the US railway tie market in 2010 with the acquisition of Tangent Rail. James Jones & Sons Limited (forest products, UK) and Stella SpA, through the Stella Jones International S.A. joint venture, control a majority of Stella-Jones Inc.

Glennwood Custom Builders is a residential design and build company. The company custom builds a wide range homes from Victorian-styled homes and cottages to log homes and timber-frame homes and retreats. The Michigan builder serves the Lake Charlevoix, Walloon Lake, Bay Harbor, Harbor Springs, and surrounding areas. President Jeff Collins owns the company.

The Lawrence Group is an architecture and interior design firm that offers more than just architecture and interior design services. While it undertakes traditional design development and space planning projects on multifamily residences, hospitals, museums, parks, retail stores, and schools, the group also boasts expertise in town planning and graphic design. It has master-planned neighborhood and downtown developments, while its STUDIO369 in-house graphics department provides marketing and branding for property developments through print and Web. The firm also owns a retail furniture and home accessories showroom called Niche. The Lawrence Group operates a half-dozen offices in the US and one in Beijing.

Truland Systems takes current events seriously. The US electrical contractor is a privately-held group made up of about 10 companies that design, build, test, and maintain electrical systems in offices, condominiums, hospitals, hotels, sports stadiums, and mass transit facilities. Its services focus on building automated systems that increase speed and decrease energy consumption. As a specialty contractor, it is hired by general contractors, as well as commercial and public facility owners and developers. Clients have included Turner Construction, AOL, and the US Department of Homeland Security. Founded in 1913, the company is in its second generation of being family run, led by CEO Robert Truland.

The Imperial Bathroom Company hopes to conquer the world -- one lavatory at a time. The central England company's branded bathroom suites expand yearly and include Windsor (sweeping curves and fluted detailing), Oxford Bone (off-white), and Astoria (inspired by Art Deco). Imperial's offerings encompass bathroom furniture, tubs, taps and accessories, installation, and technical specifications. It offers a lifetime guarantee against manufacturing defects for its sanitary ware.

Robert Keller, the inventor of Kalwall®, was named a Fellow of ASES (American Solar Energy Society) during the Solar 2000 Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. For the first time in its history, the Society created this new class of membership. This was the second time in as many years that Keller had been honored by the solar industry; in 1999, he was awarded the Passive Pioneer Solar Award by the Society.Keller noted that once again he was pleased to receive recognition for the long effort he and his family have made, while achieving commercial success in the companies he founded to put his solar ideas into practice. He reiterated his pledge to the solar community that he will continue to strive to develop more ways to use solar energy to benefit humanity. He added that he "plans to continue his efforts to urge others to seek more innovative and practical ways to use the free energy from the sun to liberate our society from the bondage of fossil fuels to satisfy our energy needs."

Michels Corporation is a utility, engineering, design, and construction contractor. The family-owned company links systems for energy, transportation, distribution, and communications customers. It specializes in installing fiber optic networks for telephone, broadband, and cable providers. Through more than a dozen divisions, operating in the US and Canada, Michels offers a variety of services including horizontal and directional drilling, underground pipe repair, tunneling, engineering, paving, and materials production. The company also provides wind farm construction through a wind energy division. Founded in 1959 by Dale Michels, the company initially installed and serviced gas pipelines in Wisconsin.

Spectus manufacture their own products completely on their own site. This ensures full control of the make up and quality of the product. When combined with energy efficient double glazing units, Spectus systems either meet or exceed all current building regulations and provide excellent thermal protection against the loss of heat from your home.

Sargent & Lundy is to deliver engineering, construction management, and consulting services to the global power industry. The company also offers project siting, construction start-up, operations and maintenance services, system upgrades, and decommissioning for fossil-fueled, nuclear power, and renewable energy plants. Sargent & Lundy has designed nearly 900 power plants in the Americas, Asia, and the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. It also engineers transmission line and substation projects for power delivery. Clients include electric utilities, oil and gas companies, equipment manufacturers, and financial institutions.

APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials. The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson.

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