Caltagirone has its roots firmly set in concrete. Founded as cement manufacturer G. Vianini & Co. in 1890, the holding company participates in residential, industrial, and public building projects, including dams, tunnels, and roads throughout Italy and other parts of Europe. It operates in cement businesses through its Cementir subsidiary. Caltagirone also has real estate and media interests. Its Caltagirone Editore unit publishes daily newspapers Il Mattino and Il Messaggero, and it has a 52% stake in Il Gazzetino. Caltagirone Editore also operates the Internet portal Caltanet. The Caltagirone family, with a nearly 55% stake, has controlled the company since 1984.

Morgan Sindall, a holding company for a network of construction companies operating in the UK and the Channel Islands. The group's companies operate through five main divisions: fit out (refurbishing), construction, affordable housing, urban regeneration, and infrastructure services. It works on both public- and private-sector projects and also is involved in PPP (public/private partnerships) and joint venture arrangements. Subsidiaries include Lovell, Morgan Est, Morgan Lovell, Morgan Ashurst, and Overbury. The group also owns Backbone Furniture, a supplier for commercial interiors and Vivid Interiors, which fits out hotels, retail, and other faculties.

Georgia-Pacific (GP) is the world's largest tissue products producer and the force behind such household items as Brawny paper towels and Quilted Northern bath tissues. Not one to be pigeonholed, the company makes a wide variety of other products including cardboard packaging, plywood and lumber, related chemicals, fertilizers, recycled paper fibers, Dixie-brand paper cups, touchless towel dispensers, and office paper. GP is the second-largest US forest products manufacturer (behind International Paper). A subsidiary of diversified group Koch Industries, GP has more than 300 manufacturing facilities in the Americas and Europe.

Duro-Last began in 1978 with the simple need to find a roofing system that worked. Existing roofing systems presented a common problem - they required ongoing maintenance and continual expense, with no long-term solution in sight. John R. Burt, used his experience in fabricating pool liners to develop a remarkable new roofing membrane. Two years of additional testing resulted in the proprietary membrane formula still in use today.

Engineering firm Gannett Fleming has waded through water, waste, and sludge for nearly a century. Founded in 1915, the company focuses on serving the transportation, water and wastewater, facilities, technology, and environmental industries. Gannett Fleming operates through about a dozen subsidiaries that offer a variety of services that range from design/build, construction management, ground testing and soil strengthening, site remediation, structural rehabilitation, electrical and mechanical installation, geophysical mapping and surveying, and 3D visualization. The company works on projects around the world and has more than 55 offices throughout the US and Canada.

Ryan Consultants & Designers. The company specializes in civil works and environmental and energy projects for such government and commercial clients as the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and MACTEC. It also handles energy conservation and communications projects. The women-owned and Hispanic-owned firm and has California offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco; it also has operations in Alexandria, Virginia. President and CEO Wanda M. Martinez, who named the enterprise after her nephews, owns the firm, which she launched in the 1980s.

Dean Word Company, Ltd. company builds and maintains roads, bridges, parking lots, and related structures in and around San Antonio. It also produces crushed aggregates and hot-mix asphalt materials for paving applications, performs industrial sitework, and provides contract mining and bulk transport services. Dean Word handles highway construction, maintenance projects, and civil construction projects for such public agencies as the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) as well as for private clients. The company was founded in 1890 and continues to be owned and run by the Word family.

Steamist has a rich 50 year history, of which 40 years have been focused on residential steam baths. Underlying the history is a principle that hyperthermic therapy induced relaxation is not only a great business to be intimately involved in - it is essential.From simple beginnings as a more industrial oriented company, Steamist realized that the future is in bringing an age old culturally specific practice of steambathing into the mass consciousness. Not very long ago, the idea of steam and sauna bathing in this country was barely recognized much less incorporated into domestic practice. As the level of awareness has grown in the last decade, tremendous demand for steambath and sauna products has also grown, resulting in new and expanded ways of creating an escape from high intensity life.

HKS is a good sport when it comes to building design. One of the largest architectural firms in the world, HKS has designed sports and entertainment, health care, hospitality, industrial, and corporate buildings in the US and across the globe. The company offers structural engineering, architecture, project management, and interior and graphic design services. Some of the firm's most notable work includes the Dallas Cowboys football stadium, the Whole Foods Market world headquarters, The Blue Man Group theater in Las Vegas, and the King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan. HKS has more than 20 offices in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Dubai, China, and the UK. Harwood K. Smith founded the firm in 1939.

Ajax United Patterns and Molds works to avoid an Achilles heel. The company, doing business as Ajax Custom Plastics and Ajax Custom Manufacturing, builds plastic and metal components for the medical, semiconductor, communications, and food processing industries. Services offered by the company include design and engineering, thermoforming, tooling and machining, welding, and assembly. The company has manufacturing facilities in the US (California and Texas), as well as China and Singapore. Ajax United Patterns, which was established in 1945, is noted for designing and building fresh pineapple peelers for Dole.

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