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JW Hicks Inc. has been serving the metals industry since 1985. The firm operates as a refractory maker for the metals industry. Based in Merrillville, Ind., it provides refractory products and services to the primary metals industry in North America. The company offers a full range of mechanical services and products to complement its refractory products. JW Hicks Inc.'s product applications include handling, treating and controlling the flow of molten metal. Some of it products and services include slidegate hardware, welding services, re-oxidation protection devices and others.

ARMIL C.F.S. provides custom designed high-temperature process furnaces and refractory and insulation products for diverse applications in a wide range of industries. It includes a full line of ceramic fiber products, firebrick, castables, mortars, custom-cast shapes and high-temperature gaskets. It offers process furnaces such as investment casting, forging, heat-treating, ceramic, material processing, laboratory crucible and die casting furnaces. The company is a stocking distributor of high temperature insulating and refractory products. It provides contract-manufacturing services for users and manufacturers of high-temperature equipment and has manufactured both complete furnaces and major sub-assemblies for several kiln and furnace original equipment manufacturers, engineering firms, and furnace users. Its services range from furnace tune-ups to energy efficiency audits. ARMIL C.F.S. is headquartered in South Holland, Ill.

Sterling Lumber Company offers a wide range of lumber products and is located in Blue Island, Ill. It offers a variety of products, such as hardwood, timber and shoring, and hardwood pallet and stock boxes. The company also offers manufactured lumber products that include road mats, truck and crane mats, shielding, shoring, piling, stakes and wedges. It has a fleet of more than 5 trucks, over 50 sawmills and approximately two package saws that provides delivery and transportation services. The company has a wide range of clients, including the Kenny Construction, Jay Dee Contractors, Lorig Construction Company and the Hayward Baker. Sterling Lumber Company s projects include Dan Ryan and the Museum of Science & Industry.