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Roominate is a construction set introduced by Maykah Inc., a company founded by Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, in 2012. The product, marketed at girls aged 6–10, consists of modular plastic building pieces that can interlock to create models and includes circuits that can be wired.
Builders FirstSource, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company [1] [2] that is a manufacturer and supplier of building materials. [3] The company is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and is the largest supplier of building products, prefabricated components and value-added services in the US.
The company started in the Gothenburg borough of Lundby, which also gave the company its name. Lundby was the first maker to include electrical lights in their dollhouses ("child safe" 4 volt rather than the more standard 12 volt) and is notable for following contemporary trends in interior and furniture design.
Forterra was formed as Hanson Building Products as the building products division of Hanson Plc. [2] It has acquired numerous other companies during its existence, including The Butterley Company in 1968, [3] London Brick in 1984, [3] Red Bank Manufacturing Company [4] and Marshalls Flooring in 2002, [5] Marshalls Clay Products and Thermalite in 2005, [6] and Formpave Holdings in 2006.
USG Corporation, also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is an American company which manufactures construction materials, most notably drywall and joint compound. The company is the largest distributor of wallboard in the United States and the largest manufacturer of gypsum products in North America.
In the following year, CRH took an interest in Nesher Israel Cement Works, the only cement producer in that country, by taking a 25% stake in its holding company Mashav. [16] In July 2003 it agreed to pay EUR 693 million to acquire Cementbouw - a do-it-yourself store chain and building materials producer in the Netherlands. [17]
The new line will feature a Barbie with hearing aids. (Photo: Mattel)
The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn.