Albany company's 1968 invention of the high-speed rolling door led Albany International to create the Albany Door Systems unit. Getting in and out quickly is key for Albany Door Systems. The division of Albany International, designs, manufactures and installs high-performance industrial doors. It also offers after-market replacement parts for its products. Albany Door Systems products include roll-up doors, folding doors, bifold doors, and overhead doors. Albany's interior and exterior doors are used at cold storage facilities, parking garages, auto dealerships, and manufacturing facilities. The division operates production plants and service centers in the US, Sweden, Germany, China, and Australia.

LPCiminelli, Inc.,the largest general contractor in western New York, it oversees a wide range of commercial, government, and industrial projects in the region, providing program management, construction management, and design/build services. It provides general contracting services through subsidiary LPCiminelli Construction Corp. Markets served include education, health care (medical, skilled nursing, and senior living), and multi-unit residential. The group has expanded its operations and provides services in the Northeast and Midwest. Formerly Louis P. Ciminelli Construction, the group was founded in 1961.

Ryan Consultants & Designers. The company specializes in civil works and environmental and energy projects for such government and commercial clients as the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and MACTEC. It also handles energy conservation and communications projects. The women-owned and Hispanic-owned firm and has California offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco; it also has operations in Alexandria, Virginia. President and CEO Wanda M. Martinez, who named the enterprise after her nephews, owns the firm, which she launched in the 1980s.

alfanar Group ("al fanar" is roughly translated as "the light" in Arabic) is primarily engaged in building power plants, substations, and water treatment plants in Saudi Arabia. Other subsidiaries manufacture electrical systems and industrial equipment needed for the utility plants, while alfanar IT provides information technology services to the Saudi government and other private corporations doing business in the Middle East. The alfanar Group has locations in Egypt, India, Qatar, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. The alfanar Group and alfanar Construction were founded in 1976; alfanar IT came along in 1995.

C. Overaa & Co. has been making its mark in Northern California. Norwegian immigrant and carpenter Carl Overaa founded the company in 1907 in order to help rebuild San Francisco after a major earthquake struck. Today the family-owned company builds institutional, commercial, industrial, public, and housing projects primarily in San Francisco's East Bay. It provides preconstruction, design/build, construction, sustainable building, and contracting services. The company's customers have included Courtyard by Marriott, the John Muir Medical Center, the US Postal Service, YMCA, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Amedore Homes builds homes and develops residential communities in New York State's Capital District. The firm builds condominiums, townhomes, and single-family detached homes in prices ranging from about $150,000 to the low $400,000s. The company has about a dozen subdivision developments in Albany, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, and Warren counties. in President George Amedore founded the company as Amedore & Sons Builders in 1974.

Mansfield Plumbing Products, founded in 1929, is a leading producer of top quality, attractively designed, high performance plumbing fixtures and fittings for use in residential, commercial and institutional markets. Recognized for our strong commitment to service, quality and value, Mansfield is considered the "Brand of Choice" for professional plumbing contractors and consumers alike, around the country. We offer a full line of products including: vitreous china toilets, lavatories and urinals; brass and plastic plumbing fittings and parts; acrylic whirlpools, bathtubs, shower bases and sinks; enameled steel bathtubs, kitchen sinks and lavatories; and cast iron kitchen sinks.

Bechtel National, the government services arm of engineering giant Bechtel Group, helps the US destroy stockpiles of nuclear and chemical weapons and treat contaminated wastes. It has worked toward developing a national repository for nuclear waste in Nevada and it also helped the US defense program by managing the awarding of certain subcontracts in Iraq. Bechtel and the University of California manage and operate two to institutions for nuclear and scientific research labs -- Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Among the other governmental agencies it works with are NASA, the EPA, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Hanafee Bros. Sawmill specializes in red oak and white oak lumber products. It also produces lumber from a broad range of other hardwood species, including ash, sycamore, cottonwood, elm, poplar, sassafras, walnut, hackberry, sap gum, and more. The company sells its products to furniture and cabinet makers, flooring manufacturers, and makers of stair parts, moldings, and other items. Export clients comprise more than half of its business. Hanafee Bros. Sawmill's hardwood lumber operations, which have been family-owned since 1906, operates from the Obion River valley in northwestern Tennessee. President Donald Hanafee Jr. owns and operates the company.

Peckham Industries has a crush on road materials. Peckham Industries, Inc. produces asphalt, crushed stone, ready mix concrete, and liquid calcium chloride (used to melt ice in the winter and to keep road dust down in the summer). It also builds and repairs roads. Peckham Industries, Inc. and its subsidiaries operate throughout New England with locations in New York, Vermont, and Connecticut. Peckham's plants include liquid asphalt facilities, hot mix plants, and a reclaiming facility. The company's Peckham Materials Corp. unit operates quarries and supplies aggregates through the Hudson River Valley. William Peckham, father of chairman and president John Peckham, founded Peckham Road Corp., the flagship of Peckham Industries, in 1924.

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