AC Martin Partners get a charge out of engineering projects. The design firm provides architectural and engineering services in California to clients such as corporations, developers, churches, educational institutions, and government agencies. Its portfolio includes a new 75,000 sq. ft. Segerstrom Science Building at Azuza Pacific University, Our Lady Queen of Angels church in Newport Beach, and the Merle and Melanie Fish Interfaith Center at Chapman University. AC Martin operates from offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Albert C. Martin Sr. founded the company in 1906. His grandsons, Christopher and David, co-chair the company today.

FRCH Design Worldwide is like a stylist for the retail industry. The architecture firm specializes in the design of retail spaces, including department stores, big-box stores, and specialty brand retailers. It also designs restaurants, hospitality and leisure properties, and commercial and mixed-use spaces. Services include due diligence assessment, conceptual design, brand development, and exterior signage. The company primarily operates in the US but also provides services internationally, typically for companies entering new markets. FRCH Design Worldwide has served customers including Target, Tiffany & Co., Coldwater Creek, and Hilton Worldwide. The company was founded in 1968.

Horton Homes, a subsidiary of Horton Industries along with sister subsidiary Dynasty Homes, makes manufactured houses and buildings, and HUD coded homes for sale primarily in the southeastern US. The company sells through retail centers in 12 states, where buyers may choose from more than 50 floor plans and such amenities as bay windows, vaulted ceilings, walk-in closets, and skylights. Since its 1970 inception inside an empty chicken house, the company has upped its production from three homes a week to 500 homes per week at the height of its popularity: it now makes about 100 units a week. Founder and CEO Nevils Horton Jr. owns the company.

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.

Planning, design, and management services are the fruits of The Dewberry Companies' labor. The company provides architectural and engineering services, planning, program management, and surveying services, as well as environmental compliance, and security and homeland defense services. Dewberry serves private and public-sector clients. However, government customers such as FEMA, the Pentagon, and the US Department of Labor make up a big portion of business. Dewberry also serves departments of transportation, as well as universities, real estate developers and other commercial and institutional groups. Dewberry, which was founded in 1956, operates from more than 40 offices in nearly 20 states.

Rougier has been stacking up wood-product holdings in Europe and Central Africa for more than 70 years. It subsidiaries in Cameroon, Republic of Congo, and Gabon cut and process tropical timber into logs, sawn timber and plywood, which is shipped worldwide. Two subsidiaries in France, Rougier Sylvaco and Rougier Panneaux, import tropical timber and plywood, respectively. Europe accounts for more than half the company's revenue and Asia covers about a third. The company sells African species, including Kosipo, Kotibe, Longhi, Niove, Ozigo, Pao Rosa exclusively.

Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) gathers used rechargeable batteries at more than 30,000 retail locations in the US and Canada and recycles them for further use. The company also recycles, refurbishes, and resells cell phones. RBRC is funded by more than 350 makers and marketers of rechargeable batteries who license the RBRC battery recycling seals to imprint on batteries and product packaging. The organization recycled 6.9 million pounds of rechargeable batteries in 2008 and has recycled about 50 million pounds of rechargeable batteries since 1996.

Norbord isn't bored making boards. The company is one of the world's largest producers of wooden panels, with oriented strand board (OSB), accounting for about two-thirds of the company's sales. OSB is a type of engineered wood product used in a variety of applications. Norbord also makes other wooden homebuilding products such as fiberboard, particleboard, and hardwood plywood. The company has about 14 mills in the US, Canada, UK, and Belgium. Products are sold under brand names including Trubord, Truflor, TallWall, Solarbord, Pinnacle, Rimboard, and Windstorm. Brookfield Asset Management owns more than 70% of Norbord.

Wise Recycling is keen on the recycling business. The company receives aluminum cans from the public through its network of some 50 neighborhood collection centers, then processes them at its seven facilities, which are located in Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Virginia. It also does some commercial recycling. Much of the aluminum yielded by the company's recycling efforts goes to sister company Wise Alloys, a maker of aluminum can sheet. Wise Recycling was formed when parent Wise Metals Group acquired the Reynolds Aluminum Recycling business from Reynolds Metals in 1998.

Hancock Lumber Company, Inc. company manages more than 40,000 acres of timberland in the Pine Tree State and produces about 63 million board ft. of eastern white pine lumber at three sawmills. Its pine products are shipped nationwide. Hancock Lumber also operates retail and discount stores throughout Maine that sell roofing, siding, decking, windows and doors, custom kitchen products, cabinetry and millwork, and overstock building materials to both do-it-yourself homeowners and residential and commercial contractors. Founded in 1848, Hancock Lumber Company is owned and operated by sixth-generation members of the Hancock family.

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