Through its subsidiaries, Recology handles garbage collection, recycling, and other waste management services for more than 570,000 residential customers and 55,000 commercial customers in San Francisco and some 50 other California communities. The employee-owned company operates landfills, transfer stations, and hundreds of recycling programs. Recology's recycling operations include materials-recovery facilities, recycling of construction and demolition debris, and composting of food and other organic waste.

Rogers Group is owned by the family of Ralph Rogers, who founded the company as a roadside crushing operation at the age of 19 in 1908. Rogers Group doesn't crush dreams but it sure crushes the tar out of stones. The company operates about some 60 quarries, construction facilities, and related locations in the Southeast and Midwest. With a heavy presence in Tennessee, the group produces crushed stone as well as asphalt paving, sand, gravel, and other construction materials. Rogers Group also offers highway construction and concrete masonry services. It is the nation's largest private crushed stone producer.

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.

Argan makes sure its customers stay all juiced up. The holding company includes subsidiaries that provide services and products for the government, telecommunications, power, and personal health care industries. Its main subsidiary, Gemma Power Systems, designs and builds power plants including traditional and alternate fuel plants. Argan's Southern Maryland Cable unit provides inside premise wiring and also performs splicing and underground and aerial telecom infrastructure construction services to carriers, government entities, service providers, and electric utilities. Argan's Vitarich Laboratories arm makes and distributes private-label dietary supplements and other nutraceuticals and health care products.

Clayco is a top US general building contractor that offers real estate, architecture, design, and construction services. The privately owned company serves a range of industries with a focus on industrial, corporate, government, residential, institutional, and financial facilities. Projects include distribution and logistics centers, industrial facilities, and food and beverage industry warehouses and plants. Clayco also has constructed headquarters and operation centers, call and data centers, sports and education facilities, and retail centers. Its Clayco Realty Group provides land development, site selection, and project financing.

Dimeo Construction Company has built up its reputation in New England. The company provides general contracting, design/build, and construction management services from offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The builder focuses on commercial, education, health care, industrial, and retail projects such as schools, college residential halls, hospitals, and shopping centers. It also has worked on renovation projects, including The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Ocean House. Dimeo's green side has emerged and it has built eco-friendly projects for IKEA, and several public schools. The family-owned company was established in 1930 by Joseph Dimeo.

BAM Nuttall is crazy about civil engineering and construction. The firm is involved in infrastructure and transportation projects throughout the UK, including roads, railways, marine facilities, airports, and water treatment plants. BAM Nuttall also provides specialty contracting services such as tunneling and mechanical and electrical engineering and offers rail industry training courses. Subsidiaries include marine civil engineering firm Nuttall John Martin Construction and geotechnical specialist BAM Ritchies. The company has about 20 offices throughout the country. Dutch engineering Group Royal BAM acquired BAM Nuttall (then named Edmund Nuttall) in 2002.

Charles Pankow Builders has some pretty concrete ideas on how to build high-rises. The design/build general contractor specializes in quake-resistant concrete frames for structures including department stores, hotels, condominiums, medical facilities, and office buildings. The firm is primarily active in California and Hawaii. Affiliate Pankow Special Projects focuses on small-scale projects including renovations, interior build-outs, and seismic upgrades. Unit Mid-State Precast provides structural and architectural precast concrete components for Pankow-managed projects. Employee-owned Charles Pankow Builders was founded in 1963 by the late Charles Pankow, who helped pioneer the design/build delivery system.

StressCrete was founded in 1953 as a concrete utility pole manufacturer. Although StressCrete Group makes poles for myriad purposes, you won't find any firefighters sliding down its products. StressCrete makes a wide variety of spun concrete poles for street lighting, utility, and ornamental applications. The company's special use products include flag poles, camera surveillance poles, traffic sign and signal poles, sports lighting poles, closed circuit television poles, and microwave towers. The group's King Luminaire unit, which was acquired in 1985, makes decorative outdoor lighting products. King Luminaire also offers site amenities, such as benches, trash receptacles, bicycle racks, and tree guards/grates.

HIOLLE Industries could be considered a Renaissance Man in inanimate form. Through its subsidiaries, HIOLLE offers a variety of services to industrial companies, including the design, installation, and maintenance of hydraulics, thermal treatment, plumbing, electric, and other systems. In addition, the company operates an environmental services business for improvement of water/wastewater treatment and energy plants, as well as a renewable energy business that makes solar panels and systems. HIOLLE also executes industrial transfers, a process in which it dismantles factories and moves them elsewhere. Founded in 1976, the company operates in Europe, Asia, and other countries.

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