Case Studies Region: Global

MiTek Industries Inc. (MiTek) is the world’s largest supplier of state-of-the-art engineered products and services for the building components industry. MiTek delivers steel connectors, structural design software and engineering services to a multinational marketplace. The company maintains its headquarters in Chesterfield, Mo., has engineering offices, machinery divisions and stamping plants across the U.S. (as well […]

The year 2011 marked a period of changes for the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Ky., starting with its transition from Pikeville College to the University of Pikeville. The switch is part of larger effort to expand the university’s tradition of providing students with a multidisciplinary education, while also maintaining a balance of intimate undergraduate […]

Valders Stone & Marble Inc. (Valders) is a dimensional cut stone division of Eden Stone Co. Inc. (Eden Stone). Eden Stone acquired Valders in 1992, setting the operation on track to become one of the most advanced custom stone product fabricators in the country. Valders capitalizes on its relationship with Eden Stone, as well as […]

Western Partitions Inc. (WPI) has become one of the largest and most reputable interior/exterior contracting firms in the Northwest. The family-owned and -operated company maintains the same hard work ethic and can-do attitude today as when Mike and Pam Roach founded WPI in 1972. What began as a straightforward interior-exterior contracting company evolved into a […]

VCC LLC has become a big name in the construction industry by upholding its core value of excellence. The company was founded in 1987 by Sam Alley, now chairman and CEO of VCC, and his two partners Gus Vratsinas and Ed DeMoss. The company has since grown to be one of the industry’s top construction […]

Isaac Zaharoni established Zaharoni Industries Inc. (ZII) in 1975, having arrived in the United States from Israel only 13 years earlier with no grasp of the English language and just $400 in his pocket. Isaac’s drive to succeed surpassed all the odds against him, proven through ZII’s steady growth over the past four decades. ZII […]

Farwest Corrosion Control Company (Farwest) has been a leading provider of cathodic protection and corrosion solutions to North America’s oil companies, gas companies, power companies, water districts and utilities since 1956. Operating eight branch locations, Farwest provides its clients with the world-class materials, engineering and installation services for complete cathodic protection, applied with integrity, service […]

Richard Kovach founded BEMO USA (BEMO) in 1999 as a branch of his business, Kovach Panel Wall Systems. BEMO acted as a unique, formed roofing and wall systems division and soon outgrew its parent company. “In 2001 we made the decision to run with the company as its own entity,” says Kovach, president and CEO […]

Dattner Architects (Dattner) immediately established a reputation for building cutting-edge, high-end civic buildings after its 1964 founding in New York City. Over the next five decades Dattner’s innovative design approach and broad client base has allowed the company to grow to a team of 70, all located in Dattner’s Manhattan office. The team represents a […]

It only took 10 years to transform IPG Photonics Corporation (IPG) from a small laser laboratory with less than 60 employees into the world leader in fiber laser development and production. IPG now employs over 3,000 people at 18 facilities worldwide, spanning Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, China, Brazil and South Korea. IPG’s Oxford, Mass., facility […]