Kok's Woodgoods produces wood and vinyl trim for home interior and exterior applications. Its products include decorative brackets and shelving, door accents, moldings, and other millworked products. The company also makes board products, including hobby boards, from oak, poplar, aspen, and pine woods. Kok's Woodgoods fills custom orders and sells its products in national chain hardware stores. The company began operations in 1983.

Insituform Technologies, Inc. company and its subsidiaries provide trenchless technologies for rehabilitating and protecting sewers, water lines, oil pipelines, and other industrial pipes, serving municipalities and industries worldwide. Insituform's cured-in-place pipe process (which accounts for about 60% of the company's revenues) allows for pipe rehabilitation without digging or disruption. The company also offers other pipe rehabilitation and corrosion protection services. Insituform increasing is pursuing project management work that includes the construction, replacement, and rehabilitation of large pipeline systems.

Taiheiyo Cement has laid a solid foundation in cement and construction materials. Through some 310 subsidiaries and more than 135 affiliates, Taiheiyo operates in the resource, environmental, building materials, and construction industries. With about 30 cement plants around the world, ready-mix concrete and concrete products is at the core of Taiheiyo. It also operates several limestone mines, and is involved in the ceramics and electronics business. Other non-cement operations include recycling businesses, which process materials such as wood chips and plastic, as well as sludge and industrial waste. Taiheiyo affiliates also provide real estate leasing and development throughout Japan.

Calvert manufactures and supplies glulams, or pre-shaped glued-laminated lumber products, for use in decorative construction work, including arches, beams, bridges, domes, trusses, s-curves, columns, and even playground equipment. It uses species such as Douglas fir, Alaska yellow cedar, redwood, western red cedar, spruce pine fir, and more. The company manufactures glulams for export to Asia, Canada, and the Middle East, and provides container loading at its plants in Vancouver and Washougal, Washington. Calvert Company was founded by Ray Calvert and others in 1947.

Gemma Power Systems (GPS) is a top designer and builder of power generation facilities in the New England region of the US. The company, a subsidiary of Argan, provides a full range of services to the energy market, from development, consulting, engineering, and procurement to construction, start-up, operation, and maintenance. Gemma Power Systems has completed more than 70 projects including district heating and cooling systems, boiler plant construction and renovations, utility maintenance, combined-cycle and cogeneration facilities, emergency peaking plants, and alternative fuel-powered facilities (wood-fired power plants, wind plants, and more). Argan bought GPS in 2006 for more than $33 million.

Netherlands Engineering Consultants (better known as NEDECO) keeps things moving. The non-profit consortium of about 10 Dutch engineering and technological consulting companies and research institutes works to compete on and international scale. Member firms include Fugro, Ferendi, and others. Known for its water and wastewater projects, environmental planning, port development, and transport infrastructure, NEDECO has built projects in developing countries in Africa and Asia. The group provides geotechnical engineering and site surveys, arranges funding, and provides management services. Founded in 1951, NEDECO serves public utilities, private companies, international investors, and governments.

The Rottlund Company (Rottlund Homes) develops the land people live on and builds the houses they live in. The company builds condominiums, townhouses, villas, and detached single-family homes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and in Florida and Iowa. Rottlund's homes range in price from $125,000 to more than $1 million. The company targets a wide range of customers, from first-time and move-up buyers to active adults and retirees. Brothers David Rotter (the firm's chairman) and the late Bernard Rotter founded the company in 1973. The Rotter family continues to own the company.

Taylor Lumber makes a lot of good wood. The company produces hardwood lumber and flooring for the construction industry. It purchases logs (white and red oak, ash, cherry, walnut, hickory, and hard maple) from within a 300-mile radius of its southern Ohio location to produce its lumber. Taylor Lumber is capable of producing and shipping 100,000 ft. of plain sawn and rift and quartered lumber a day. Its flooring plant can manufacture 25,000 sq. ft. of hardwood plank a day, sold as Taylor Brand Solid Flooring and McDermott Series Engineered Flooring. It ships to more than 40 countries throughout the world. Founded in 1882, Taylor Lumber was acquired by Resilience Capital Partners in 2010.

Alberici helped shape the St. Louis skyline; it now sets its sights -- or its construction sites -- across North America. Alberici Corporation, parent of Alberici Constructors, encompasses a group of enterprises with a presence in North America, Central America, South America, and Europe. Operations include construction services, building materials, and steel fabrication and erection units. Alberici offers general contracting, design/build, construction management, demolition, and specialty contracting services. It also offers facilities management. The Alberici family still holds the largest share of the employee-owned firm, founded in 1918 by John S. Alberici.

Alion creates alliances between science and big government. Alion Science and Technology is a development and research company that provides consulting and technology services, primarily to federal agencies. Most of its revenues come from contracts with the US Department of Defense (DOD), especially the Navy. Alion specializes in areas including naval architecture and marine engineering, manufacturing engineering services, wargaming, lab support and chemical decontamination, military transformation analysis, and wireless communications engineering. The employee-owned firm has offices and facilities throughout the US, generally near government military bases and other installations. Alion was founded in 2002.

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