Hope Equipment LLC, 400 Halls Hill Rd, Colchester, CT 06415, US

Shepard Steel designs and fabricates a wide variety of steel products for large offices, buildings and single-family homes. It operates a pre-construction service department, staff engineering department and a local engineering firm that designs the structural components for its clients projects. Its completed projects include the Merritt 7, Building 601 in Norwalk, Conn.; Two River School in East Hartford; Waterbury Performing Arts Center in Waterbury, Conn.; and Timex headquarters in Waterbury, Conn. Shepard Steel began as an East Hartford scrap dealer in 1956 and was incorporated in 1959. It moved to its present location in Hartford in 1964. Its miscellaneous metals division, which is located in Newington, Conn., has the ability to fabricate and install stainless steel items, aluminum, mesh rails, stairs, spiral stairs, case ladders, ship ladders, roof ladders, ornamental items and glass railings.