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Solar Group was established in 1957 as Solar Hardware Company. Its early products included door and window hardware and metal adjustable shelving. In 1976 the company began manufacturing home ventilation products under the AMPCOR name. Then in 1982 a new division called Southern Gemini was added to manufacture mailboxes. In 1988 EFI wood fasteners became part of the company's product offering. At that time all four divisions: SOLAR HARDWARE, AMPCOR, SOUTHERN GEMINI, and EFI were brought together under one name, THE SOLAR GROUP. Solar Group products are marketed throughout the Uited States, Canada, Japan and Germany. In 1998 the Solar Group was acquired by GIBRALTAR INDUSTRIES. GIBRALTAR is a leading manufacturer, processor, and distributor of metals and other engineered materials for the building products, vehicular, and other industrial markets. The company serves approximately 10,000 customers in a variety of industries in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. It has approximately 3,500 employees and operates more than 74 facilities in 26 states, Canada, and Mexico. Solar Group has a location in Taylorsville, Miss., and is a subsidiary of Gibraltar Industries, Buffalo, N.Y.

Maintaining a Dixie paperboard facility in Pennington, Ala., Georgia-Pacific Corporation is one of the world s leading manufacturers and marketers of tissue, packaging, paper, building products and related chemicals. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company employs nearly 55,000 people at more than 300 locations in North America and Europe. Its consumer tissue brands include Quilted Northern, Angel Soft, Brawny, Sparkle, Soft 'n Gentle, Mardi Gras, So-Dri and Vanity Fair, as well as the Dixie brand of disposable cups, plates and cutlery. Georgia-Pacific Corporation s building products manufacturing companies are among the United States leading suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers, as well as to large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers.

Established in 1962, Magnolia Steel Co. Inc. specializes in the fabrication of reinforcement steel for concrete construction of bridges, roads, and buildings. It caters to the reinforcing steel and concrete accessory needs of customers throughout the southeast United States and beyond. Based in Meridian, Miss., with an approximately 50,000-square-foot facility, the company s capabilities include a wide array of equipment for lifting, bending, cutting, punching, shaping, welding and finishing reinforcing steel and concrete supplies. The firm has capabilities to provide rebar and concrete supplies to projects of all sizes, and additionally operates a fleet of its own trucks to provide on-site product delivery services to its customers.