HARRIS GROUP RETAINS TOP FIVE RANKING IN PULP AND PAPER MILLS

Consulting engineering firm Harris Group Inc. maintained its fifth ranking among design firms serving pulp and paper mills according to Engineering News-Record's "The Top 500 Design Firm Sourcebook 2002" (July 2002). With $19.3 million in revenue from its forest industries customers, Harris Group was the only pure design firm (no construction services) listed in the top ten.

John Logsdon, senior vice president, forest industries, said, "Our competitors are bigger firms, no doubt about it. Harris Group customers get something different, however – highly responsive service, better management of small- and medium-sized projects, and unbiased owner's engineering services."

Harris Group's forest industries business unit has multiple offices in the Midwest, Northwest and Southeast – the industry's three largest geographic regions. It provides full-service engineering and design, process and project management consulting, owner's engineering and due diligence.

Headquartered in Seattle, Harris Group was also ranked 23rd in industrial process (manufacturing) and 22nd in fossil fuel (power) by ENR. Company revenues in 2001 were $51.9 million.

Harris Group Inc. provides full-service engineering and design to five market sectors: energy, ethanol & biomass, forest industries, industrial manufacturing, and microelectronics. Its specialty services include financial consulting, process development and systems integration. Harris Group has nine offices in the U.S. and a sister company, AO Harris Group International, in St. Petersburg, Russia. For more information, call 800-488-7410 or visit www.harrisgroup.com.