| 1 |
United Rentals, Greenwich, CT |
$4,000 |
Purchased Carter Rental in Valdosta, GA; annual revs $10 million |
| 2 |
U.S. Army Engineers, Ft. Leonard Wood, MO |
$3,267 |
Worldwide fleet of construction and support equipment |
| 3 |
Martin Marietta Aggregates, Raleigh, NC |
$3,024* |
Invested $56 million to improve plant productivity in 2006's record Q2 |
| 4 |
Lafarge North America, Reston, VA |
$2,638* |
Acquired Ritchie Cos. in Wichita in November 2005 |
| 5 |
Hanson North America, Neptune, NJ |
$2,420* |
Acquired 13th largest aggregate producer in U.S., Materials Service Corp. |
| 6 |
Sunbelt/NationsRent, Charlotte, NC |
$2,200 |
Parent, Ashtead, is buying NationsRent; forming rental's new No. 3 |
| 7 |
Inco, Toronto, ON |
$2,093* |
Trying to merge with Phelps Dodge; become 2nd largest nickel producer |
| 8 |
Hertz Equipment Rental (HERC), Park Ridge, NJ |
$2,075* |
Investors that bought Hertz are taking the company public |
| 9 |
Peter Kiewit Sons, Omaha, NE |
$1,900 |
Stockton, CA, precast yard will cast 878 panels for Oakland Bay Skyway deck |
| 10 |
Vulcan Materials, Birmingham, AL |
$1,892* |
Raising capacity of Sac Tun quarry on Yucatan from 9 to 12 million tons |
| 11 |
GE Energy, Stamford, CT |
$1,736* |
Provides power-plant clients with construction ability |
| 12 |
RSC Equipment Rental, Houston, TX |
$1,696* |
Atlas Copco expects to close sale of RSC in Q3 2006 |
| 13 |
Cemex North America, Monterrey, NL |
$1,508* |
Adding a second kiln at Balcones Cement Plant in New Braunfels, TX |
| 14 |
Phelps Dodge Mining, Phoenix, AZ |
$1,430 |
Plans to best Teck Cominco's offer to buy Inco |
| 15 |
APAC, Russell, KY |
$1,400 |
Parent, Ashland, is negotiating sale of paving subsidiary to OldCastle |
| 16 |
Arch Coal, St. Louis, MO |
$1,300 |
Income from Q1 2006 operations ($94.1 million) tripled previous year's |
| 17 |
BNSF Railway, Fort Worth, TX |
$1,250 |
Q2 2006 freight revs up 18 percent, or $549 million, over 2005 |
| 18 |
MDU Resources, Bismarck, ND |
$1,200 |
Acquired Cascade Natural Gas in WA and OR |
| 19 |
Kennecott Services, Salt Lake City, UT |
$1,151* |
Investing $170 million to stretch Bingham Canyon Mine's life to 2017 |
| 20 |
Marathon Oil, Houston, TX |
$1,100* |
Acquired leases in Colorado Piceance Basin, adding 900 bcf of natural gas |
| 21 |
BHP Billiton, San Francisco, CA |
$1,085* |
Developing Shenzi field in Gulf of Mexico and Canada's EKATI diamond |
| 22 |
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, Oak Brook, IL |
$1,000 |
Rock dredging is a specialty of this dredging contractor |
| 23 |
Drummond Co., Jasper, AL |
$980 |
Ranks in the top 25 percent of U.S.-owned coal companies |
| 24 |
Oldcastle Materials, Washington, D.C. |
$925 |
Largest U.S. asphalt producer; attempting to buy APAC |
| 25 |
Newmont Mining, Denver, CO |
$900* |
About 38% of sales and gold reserves are in North America |
| 26 |
North Carolina DOT, Raleigh, NC |
$900 |
State road maintenance |
| 27 |
Granite Construction, Watsonville, CA |
$800 |
Will take $87 million of a $347.9 million bridge JV near Baton Rouge |
| 28 |
NES Rentals, Chicago, IL |
$800 |
Sold for $850 million to private equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings |
| 29 |
Maxim Crane Works, Pittsburgh, PA |
$744* |
Hired Goldman Sachs to "explore strategic alternatives" including sale |
| 30 |
Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO |
$737* |
World's largest coal company |
| 31 |
Aggregate Industries, Bethesda, MD |
$697* |
Acquired Meyer Material near Chicago for $231 million in June |
| 32 |
Texas DOT, Austin, TX |
$650 |
State road maintenance |
| 33 |
Waste Management, Houston, TX |
$650 |
Enviro-services giant converted 495 vehicles from diesel to natural gas |
| 34 |
H & E Equipment Services, Baton Rouge, LA |
$600* |
Bought Southern California's Eagle High Reach for $59.9 million |
| 35 |
Cleveland-Cliffs, Cleveland, MI |
$561* |
Largest producer of iron ore pellets in North America |
| 36 |
Virginia DOT, Suffolk, VA |
$534 |
Highway department maintains 10,000 pieces of rolling stock |
| 37 |
Syar Industries, Napa, CA |
$520 |
Materials producer operates seven quarries in California |
| 38 |
Florida Rock Industries, Jacksonville, FL |
$505 |
Record net income of $58.3 million in Q3 2006 is 27% better than 2005 |
| 39 |
North American Coal, Dallas, TX |
$504* |
Top 10 U.S. coal producer mines about 35 million tons per year |
| 40 |
FirstEnergy, Akron, OH |
$500 |
Diversified energy firm owns 7 electric utilities serving OH, PA and NJ |
| 41 |
Grupo Mexico, Colonia Roma Sur, DF |
$500* |
World's third largest copper producer, owns ASARCO |
| 42 |
International Mill Service, Horsham, PA |
$500 |
Slag processing subsidiary of Envirosource Inc; 51 sites |
| 43 |
Modern Continental Construction, Cambridge, MA |
$500 |
Working five contracts in Cambridge worth total of $34.1 million |
| 44 |
Pennsylvania DOT, Harrisburg, PA |
$500 |
State highway maintenance |
| 45 |
Qwest, Englewood, CO |
$500 |
Macro Capacity fiber optic network spans 190,000 miles globally |
| 46 |
Weyerhaeuser, Federal Way, WA |
$500* |
Reported 2005 earnings of $733 million, down from $1.3 billion in 2004 |
| 47 |
Syncrude Canada Ltd., Ft. McMurray, AB |
$489 |
Canadian Oil Sands acquired Canada Southern Petroleum in June 2006 |
| 48 |
Southern Company, Atlanta, GA |
$466* |
Operates Alabama, Georgia, Gulf, and Mississippi Power; Savannah Electric |
| 49 |
Elmo Greer & Sons, London, KY |
$465* |
Uses DTSystems dispatching system |
| 50 |
Exelon, Chicago, IL |
$462* |
Merger with PSEG expected to close in third quarter |
| 51 |
Pittsburg & Midway Coal, Englewood, CO |
$460 |
Subsidiary of Chevron operating five mines |
| 52 |
All Erection & Crane Rental, Cleveland, OH |
$457* |
Largest privately owned crane firm in North America; 25 locations |
| 53 |
Verizon Communications, New York, NY |
$450* |
One of the 10 largest U.S. commercial fleets; Giants value excludes autos |
| 54 |
Georgia Pacific, Atlanta, GA |
$431* |
Bought Insulair, maker of paper cups and lids, for $170 million |
| 55 |
Aggreko North America, New Iberia, LA |
$428* |
Focused on renting power, temperature control and oil-free compressed air |
| 56 |
Neff Rental, Miami, FL |
$420 |
In 2005 Odyssey Investment acquired for about $510 million |
| 57 |
Clark Construction, Bethesda, MD |
$400 |
Started Phase 1 of Houston's Hobby Airport expansion in June 2006 |
| 58 |
Freeport Indonesia, New Orleans, LA |
$400 |
Precious-metals miner (mostly copper) operates mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia |
| 59 |
Teck Cominco, Vancouver, BC |
$376* |
Trying to get in front of Phelps Dodge with a hostile takeover of Inco |
| 60 |
AMECO (American Equipment Co.), Greenvillle, SC |
$375 |
Supplying most equipment to build Mexico's El Cajon hydroelectric dam |
| 61 |
United Contractors Midwest, Springfield, IL |
$365 |
Two years into $172-million reconstruction of I-74 thru Peoria |
| 62 |
Las Vegas Paving, Las Vegas, NV |
$356 |
Produced and laid 1 million tons of asphalt each year since 1992 |
| 63 |
Barrick Gold, Toronto, ON |
$355* |
Acquired Placer Dome; became world's leading gold company with 27 mines |
| 64 |
Bechtel, Louisville, KY |
$350 |
Motiva hired Bechtel/Jacobs JV to expand refinery at Port Arthur, TX |
| 65 |
Essex Crane Rental, Buffalo Grove, IL |
$350* |
Operates rental fleet of over 420 lattice-boom crawler cranes, up to 300 tons |
| 66 |
The Vecellio Group, West Palm Beach, FL |
$350 |
Bought Sharpe Bros. and organized all NC asphalt work under Sharpe name |
| 67 |
North American Energy Partners, Spruce Grove, AB |
$343 |
Started up Hitachi EX8000 shovel/maintenance facility at CNRL's Horizon Mine |
| 68 |
Allied Waste Industries, Scottsdale, AZ |
$340 |
Operates 163 transfer stations, 169 landfills, 57 recycling facilities in 37 states |
| 69 |
Safety-Kleen, Columbia, SC |
$340 |
Operates more than 200 collection and processing facilities in North America |
| 70 |
Consolidated Edison, New York, NY |
$330* |
Energy company will invest $5.3 billion in infrastructure over three years |
| 71 |
T.J. Lambrecht Construction, Joliet, IL |
$328 |
Highway-and-heavy firm operates over 800 pieces of heavy equipment |
| 72 |
International Coal Group, Ashland, KY |
$325* |
Organized by W.L. Ross & Co. to acquire bankrupt Horizon Natural Resources |
| 73 |
Weeks Marine, Cranford, NJ |
$325 |
Value includes Healy Tibbitts Builders, of Hawaii |
| 74 |
Ahern Rentals, Las Vegas, NV |
$325* |
U.S.' largest privately owned rental business operates 3,100 units |
| 75 |
Clyde Companies, Orem, UT |
$324 |
$90 million contract to rebuild 12300 South interchange on I-15 in Utah |
| 76 |
RJM Construction, Las Vegas, NV |
$315 |
Mining contractor |
| 77 |
Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power, Los Angeles |
$305 |
Nation's largest municipal utility |
| 78 |
Falconbridge, Toronto, ON |
$304* |
Xstrata worki |