EA Engineering, Science, and Technology wants to stop pollution before it starts by offering environmental consulting services. The company's specialties include brownfields and urban redevelopment, environmental compliance management, and natural resources management. Its more than 450 professionals have completed more than 100,000 environmental projects worldwide (more than $1 billion of services). Customers include government agencies and industrial manufacturers. EA Engineering operates from more than 24 offices -- 21 in the US (including facilities in Alaska and Hawaii) and one in Guam.

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.

Timber! Tolko Industries manufactures and markets specialty forest products, primarily in North America. The company, founded in 1956, produces lumber, plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), specialty kraft paper, and other wood products. It operates nearly 20 manufacturing facilities in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Tolko also markets its products overseas. Tolko was forced to shut mills during a devastating mountain pine beetle infestation. The company, along with the rest of the industry, also was struck by the global economic crisis and faced additional closures in 2008 and 2009. Tolko is owned by the founding Thorlakson family.

Carrier (Thailand) Ltd. traces its Thai roots to 1930 and operates some 10 domestic branches in addition to its Bangkok headquarters. No matter how hot the weather gets in Thailand, Carrier ensures the indoors stay cool and comfortable. Carrier (Thailand) Ltd., a subsidiary of Carrier Corporation, manufactures commercial and residential air-conditioning systems and air purifiers. Carrier products are found in homes, offices, hotels, retail stores, hospitals, and factories throughout the country. Carrier mainly trades in air and water cooling systems ranging in size from one to 80 tons.

Jaya Tiasa's newest venture is palm oil. It is developing more than 200,000 acres of plantation land and plans to operate six palm oil mills by 2014. Jaya Tiasa's businesses are growing, and, one might even say, soaring. The company owns timber operations, oil palm plantations, and a small helicopter chartering service. Its timber products include round logs, sawn timber, plywood, blockboard, and veneer, all produced from the trees grown on almost 2 million acres of forest in Malaysia. Jaya's wood products are exported to the Asia/Pacific, the US, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The company also has a reforestation operation, which grows and sells tree seedlings.

Corporacion Uniland traces its roots to 1973 when Cementos y Cales Freixa and Cementos Fradera combined to form Cementos Uniland. Cementos Portland Valderrivas controls a 64% stake in the company; Irish building materials group CRH owns the rest. No need for abstractions when discussing Uniland. Its product line is concrete, as well as cement, mortar, and aggregates. Corporacion Uniland, S.A. has operations primarily in Spain, where it runs two cement factories, more than 25 concrete plants, about 10 aggregate quarries, and more than 10 mortar plants. Uniland has also expanded into Argentina, Tunisia, the UK, and Uruguay.

Messer Construction Company, the company provides commercial construction services including design/build and construction management for projects in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. It completes some $700 million in construction each year. Projects have included one of the only LEED-certified research buildings in the US (at the University of Louisville) and the Newport Aquarium in Newport, Kentucky. The company boasts a return-customer rate of about 80%. Frank Messer founded the employee-owned firm in 1932.

S.D. Deacon provides commercial construction services for primarily retail projects in California and the northwestern US. It handles general contracting duties for new and renovated shopping centers and malls, grocery stores, and outlet malls for clients including Target, Ikea, and Wal-Mart. Although the contractor focuses on retail projects, it also renovates and repairs office, residential, and other properties. The company's joint venture, Savoy/Deacon, specializes in theme projects such as casinos and restaurants. S.D. Deacon operates from four offices in Irvine and Sacramento, California; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle. President and CEO Steve Deacon owns the company, which he founded in 1981.

Holcim (Australia) produces aggregate, cement, asphalt, and concrete block and pipe. The company operates more than 240 concrete plants and about 80 hard rock, sand, and gravel quarries in Australia. Its Humes division manufactures steel-reinforced concrete pipes and other precast concrete products. Mexican cement giant CEMEX acquired Rinker Group in 2007 for more than $16 million and renamed it CEMEX Australia. The hefty price tag sent CEMEX into massive debt, though, and the parent began selling off assets. In 2009 CEMEX sold the unit to rival Holcim, which has targeted Australia as a growth market.

Hammerstone (formerly Birch Mountain Resources) is trying to climb to the top of the heap in the industrial minerals business. The company was exploring and developing precious metal properties, but is now concentrating on industrial mineral properties (primarily lime and concrete aggregate) in the Athabasca region of northern Alberta. Formed in 1994, the company has two major divisions: industrial minerals and mineral exploration and technology. In 2008, after defaulting on a loan with its primary banker, Birch Mountain Resources went into receivership. An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management acquired the assets of the company, including a limestone quarry in Alberta, in 2009.

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