From Florida to the world: ideally located, with great ports and airports, cultural know-how and...

West Palm Beach-based RGF Environmental Group provides "pollution solutions." The 80-employee firm designs, builds and sells systems for wastewater recycling, ozone and pesticide removal, air purification and other tasks.

Sharon Rinehimer, RGF vice president in charge of international contracting, says about 15 percent of revenues is from "three or four dozen countries around the globe," from China to Mexico, the Mid East and Europe. And, she says, RGF's Florida location is key to selling globally.

"The Port of Miami makes shipping really easy, and we have