Growing Companiesfor Sustainability / Manufacturing

Coastal Caisson Corp. was founded in 1972 and successfully operated out of Clearwater, Florida to serve the southeastern U.S. deep foundation markets for many years. It relocated in 2010 to new expanded campus facilities in Odessa, just north of Tampa. Coastal Caisson Corp. provides deep foundation services for the construction industry, using the most up-to-date equipment and installation techniques. Coastal Caisson Corp. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Bauer Spezialtiefbau GmbH in 1992. Bauer is a foundation contractor, designer and builder of foundation equipment.

Sybac Solar is the U.S. subsidiary of Sybac Germany, one of the largest solar integrators in central Germany. Sybac Solar designs and mounts modular PV panels made of silicon, which react directly to sunlight to generate electric current. An inverter changes the DC (direct current) generated by the panels into AC (alternating current). Most systems are roof-mounted, but sometimes systems are installed on open ground away from a building, depending on the needs of the client.

Publix, a privately held company operating stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee, was founded by George W. Jenkins in 1930 in Winter Haven, Florida. It has grown into a Fortune 500 company with more than 1,000 stores, 141,000 employees and 2008 retail sales of $23.9 billion, making it the largest employee-owned supermarket and among the 10 largest-volume supermarkets in the United States.

Creative Recycling Systems, Inc. was founded in 1994 with the mission of providing private companies, local, state and federal government and institutions with electronics recycling solutions that represent a viable, economical alternative to environmental contamination.