Heavy construction firm Ranger Construction Industries builds and resurfaces roads and parking lots in the Sunshine State. It also operates asphalt plants and a large fleet of excavation, grading, and asphalt equipment. The company's Ranger Golf division provides golf course construction and renovation services, including mass excavation, shaping, and turf services, throughout the US. Ranger Construction Industries is a subsidiary of Florida-based Vecellio Group, one of the largest transportation contractors in the US.

Starfire Lumber produces planed and rough Douglas fir lumber products from its western Oregon cutting mill. The company operates sales networks in the Pacific Rim, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. Starfire Lumber, formerly an old cedar mill, was incorporated in 1983 by Francis Engle, the company's former chairman. The Engle family continues to control the company.

Stuart Dean Company provides restoration, refinishing, conservation, and maintenance services for architectural metal, stone, and woodwork in residential, institutional, and commercial buildings. Projects include curtain wall restorations, bronze statue preservation, church pew refinishing, and marble restorations. The company serves a variety of customers including homeowners, corporations, and building industry professionals such as property managers and maintenance engineers. Its diverse group of clients have included AT&T, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, The Kennedy Center, and Stanford University. Stuart Dean has 26 regional offices in the US and Canada. The company was founded in 1932.

Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc. (CWCI) offers building, restoration and renovation, construction management, general contracting, and interior construction services. The firm has built and refurbished schools, churches, courthouses, parking garages, medical facilities, and government and corporate office buildings. Past clients include federal agencies, the State of Maryland, Unisys, Wal-Mart, FedEx, and Georgetown University. CWCI has served the East Coast since 1961 and has also completed projects in Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas. Chairman and CEO Terrance Coakley and president Patrick Caulfield own the company.

America Chung Nam is the largest exporter of recovered paper in the US and a leading exporter in Europe and Asia. The company exports recovered fiber sources to Chinese paper mills where they can be converted into fiberboard, cardboard, and packaging. It also collects and exports a number of grades of post-consumer plastics. The company sources its materials through exclusive relationships with recycling facilities, waste management companies, and distribution centers throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. America Chung Nam was founded in 1990 by Yan Cheung and Ming Chung Liu.

CentiMark hit the nail right on the head when it got into the roofing business. The company is one of the largest commercial and industrial roofing contractors in the US and Canada, providing roof inspection, repair, and emergency leak service. CentiMark typically works on flat roofs using EPDM rubber, thermoplastics, bitumen, metal, and coatings. Top customers include NASA and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Its QuestMark division offers commercial, industrial, and retail flooring, do-it-yourself products, and floor maintenance and cleaning products. Chairman and CEO Edward Dunlap founded CentiMark as an industrial cleaning business in 1967. The company, which has 65 offices, is owned by its employees.

EMCOR Group is electrical and mechanical construction. One of the world's largest specialty construction firms, EMCOR designs, installs, operates, and maintains complex mechanical and electrical systems. These include systems for power generation and distribution, lighting, voice and data communications, fire protection, plumbing, and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC). It also provides facilities services, including management and maintenance support. Through about 75 subsidiaries and joint ventures, the company serves a range of commercial, industrial, institutional, and utility customers. EMCOR operates primarily in the US (some 85% of sales), Canada, and the UK.

Sigdo Koppers is a holding company with more than 40 subsidiaries involved in heavy construction, civil engineering, appliance manufacturing, plastics, and automobile and industrial machinery sales and distribution. Main subsidiary Sigdo Koppers Ingeniería y Construcción (ICSK) owns the largest fleet of heavy machinery in Chile and is responsible for infrastructure and development projects across South America. Other companies are involved in industrial services related to mining, energy, and forestry, including chemical plants for producing ammonium nitrate fertilizer and explosives.

Formed by Charles Shelly in 1938, the company was acquired in 2000 for $362 million by Oldcastle Materials, a unit of Ireland-based CRH. The acquisition helped boost Shelly's growth and now it produces nearly 9 million tons of asphalt each year. The Shelly Company has only scratched the surface of the road paving business. The company, which produces aggregates and asphalt for road surfacing, operates several aggregate facilities and asphalt plants in Ohio. Operations include quarries, sand and gravel pits, fixed and portable asphalt plants, and bitumen terminals. The Shelly Company is also a paving and road construction contractor. Other divisions manufacture cement and and ready mix concrete.

Hanson was quite a catch for HeidelbergCement, which bought the building materials giant in 2007 to become one of the world's top cement companies. Hanson Limited makes and delivers aggregates (crushed rock, sand, and gravel), ready-mixed and precast concrete, asphalt, bricks, flooring, and other building materials. Its products are used for civil as well as commercial, residential, and industrial jobs. Hanson also provides civil engineering services through Hanson Contracting (road surfacing) and Irvine-Whitlock (specialist brick and block laying). In the UK, Hanson Limited operates more than 350 manufacturing sites (more than half are cement plants) and maintains a delivery fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles.

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