Sabanci Holding and HeidelbergCement equally share about 80% of Akcansa, which was founded in 1996. Akcansa Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret hopes you get stuck with them. The company produces about 16 million tons of cement and clinker each year from more than 40 plants and processing facilities in the Marmara, Aegean, and Black Sea regions of Turkey. Its products include cement, ready mix concrete (sold as Bentonsa), and concrete aggregates (sold as Agregasa). Akcansa also offers ship loading services at the ports of canakkale and Ambarli. Its subsidiary Karcimsa combines slag (a process byproduct) with clinker to produce slag cement.

Russell Armer turns brownfield sites into vibrant, beautifully landscaped housing developments. The builder is one of the largest independently-owned new homebuilders in the Cumbria and north Lancashire region of England, and it has been building for more than 40 years. Russell Armer designs and constructs new houses and apartments that range in price from about 170,000 to more than 400,000. Some of its developments have won "Green Leaf" awards, which recognize the importance of creating whole living environments rather than just building new homes. Russell Armer is a subsidiary of Russell Armer Holdings Limited.

The father of CEO John Lattimore, Jr., founded LMC in 1961. Giant aggregates supplier Holcim owns 49% of LMC through US unit Holcim Participations (US); the Lattimore family owns the rest. Lattimore Materials Company (LMC) has been mixing things up in Texas for 50 years. The company mines aggregates (gravel, sand, and limestone) and produces and delivers concrete, primarily in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area but also in Houston, San Antonio, and southern Oklahoma. LMC operates about 30 ready mix concrete plant and a handful of aggregate mines; it also maintains a fleet of more than 400 mixer and haul trucks. The company's mining operations supply aggregates to outside customers and to its own concrete plants.

Lakeside Industries is one of the largest highway contractors in the Pacific Northwest. A leading asphalt paving contractor and manufacturer, Lakeside Industries works on municipal, commercial, and industrial sites, as well as residential projects. It also sells hot-mix and cold asphalt to other paving contractors. It has about a dozen offices in western Washington, northwestern Oregon, and central Idaho. Owned by the founding Lee family, Lakeside Industries was established when the family combined their mining, sand and gravel, asphalt, and trucking businesses in 1972.

Gehan Homes builds single-family houses in about 60 communities in and around Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Its houses range in price from the low $100,000s to the low $300,000s. Gehan Homes owns the land it builds on and provides mortgage brokerage through majority-owned Suburban Mortgage. Through cutting costs and slowing down production, the homebuilder is working to stay afloat in a market that has caused several competitors to file for bankruptcy or shut down operations. John Gehan founded the family-owned company in the 1960s.

Boral Limited has a big hand in building Australia. A leading producer of building and construction materials in Australia, Boral is also a top maker of roof tiles and bricks in the US (through Boral USA) and concrete in Indonesia. Through seven divisions the company produces concrete, cement, clay products, plasterboard, windows, roof tiles, timber, and other construction-related products. Boral Limited has more than 700 locations in the US, Asia, and Australia. Construction materials sold in Australia accounts for more than half of total sales.

Nuprecon. Considered one of the largest companies in its industry, Nuprecon specializes in demolition services, including total building and targeted demolition, and plant dismantlement. Nuprecon also offers environmental remediation and abatement, construction-related debris and hazardous waste recycling, and concrete sawing and drilling. Serving various industries, the company's projects have included factories, office and retail buildings, hotels, hospitals, and government buildings. Nuprecon, which is majority-owned by private equity firm Evergreen Pacific Partners, merged with competitor CST Environmental in 2008.

S&ME old engineering company. S&ME, which services both public and private entities, focuses on environmental and engineering services. Its main areas of expertise are: geotechnical engineering; environmental engineering; natural and cultural resource preservation; occupational health and safety; constructional materials engineering and testing; and water resources and solid waste engineering. Employee-owned S&ME was founded as Soils & Materials Engineering in 1973. The company, which mainly serves the Southeast, operates from about 30 offices in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

DooleyMack Constructors does the heavy lifting on big construction projects. The company provides design and planning, construction management and general contracting services for commercial, industrial, multifamily residential, and institutional projects. DooleyMack has built and renovated everything public schools, condos, and performance arts centers to waste disposal facilities and laboratories. The company mainly operates in the central and southeastern regions of the US and has several offices in Florida, as well as locations in Georgia, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. The privately-owned company was founded in 1977 by executives Bill Dooley and Ken Smith. CFO Wendy Mack later joined the firm.

Elkay Manufacturing. Elkay makes sinks, cabinets, countertops, drinking fountains, faucets, water coolers, and water filtration products for reidential and commercial use. The family-owned company sells products such as stainless steel sinks under such names as Harmony, The Mystic, and Elite Gourmet. It also offers kitchen accessories (colanders, cutting boards, soap dispensers). Elkay's cabinet brands include Yorktowne, Medallion, Schuler, and MasterCraft. Elkay is the parent of a dozen privately held companies and one joint venture, Elkay Pacific Rim. The company was founded in 1920 by the Katz family to make sinks for butlers' pantries and sculleries.

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