Varta, once one of the biggest names in the battery market, has lost its buzz. After selling its consumer battery business to Rayovac (now known as Spectrum Brands), and its automotive battery division to Johnson Controls in 2002, Varta in 2006 divested its micro-battery business, VARTA Microbatterie, a subsidiary the company created in 2001. Global Equity Partners Beteiligungs-Management, an Austrian buyout firm, bought VARTA Microbatterie in late 2006. Since 2007, the company has been in the process of selling the assets and equity previously part of the manufacture and sale of the VARTA lineup. Deutsche Bank's industrial and private equity holding company, DB Investor, is the majority owner of Varta.

Areias company designs and manufactures electromechanical parts and prototypes for small- and mid-sized companies in the semiconductor, hard drive, medical device, and solar industries. Using software by Autodesk, Exact, and SolidWorks, Aerias Systems designs circuit cards, control systems, power distribution systems, cables, and wiring harnesses. The company offers its product development and engineering services to startups and established firms. Aerias Systems was founded in 2000 by CEO Clemm Noernberg from his garage.

LSI Corporation (LSI) designs, develops and markets semiconductors and storage systems. LSI provides silicon-to-system solutions that are used at the core of products that create, store, consume and transport digital information. It offers a portfolio of capabilities, including custom and standard product integrated circuits used in hard disk drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems and personal computers. The Company also offers external storage systems, host bus adapter boards and software applications for attaching storage devices to computer servers and for storage area networks. LSI operates in two segments: the Semiconductor segment and the Storage Systems segment. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Semiconductor segment accounted for approximately 67.1% of the Company’s revenue and the Storage Systems segment accounted for approximately 32.9% of its revenue.

Xelerated is going fast into the future of networking. The fabless semiconductor company, which was founded in 2000, designs programmable network processors that incorporate the efficiency of application-specific integrated circuits. These hybrid devices are used in high-speed networking equipment. The Xelerator line of network processors is supported by reference design kits, software development kits, co-processors, and engineering services. The company's investors include Accel Partners, Alta Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, and Sjätte AP-fonden.

Connect One Ltd., a fabless semiconductor company, provides value-added solutions for connecting devices to the Internet and other IP-based networks. It develops updateable Internet controller chips, embedded device servers, and external serial device servers that enable non-PC device manufacturers to add IP connectivity to new and existing devices using LAN, WiFi, cellular, or dial-up communications. The company also provides evaluation boards and daughter boards for testing updateable Internet controller chips with specific interfaces and peripheral components; and a device connectivity server software solution for remote access to devices deployed behind a firewall or network address translator. Its customers include manufacturers of POS terminals, fax machines, embedded modems, automated teller machines, and fleet management terminals, as well as customers in telemedicine, building automation, process control, security, and power monitoring industries. The company offers its products through a network of distributors and its representative companies in the United States and internationally.

Radamec has been supplying the marine industry with quality Lloyds approved control systems for over 30 years. The company continues its high level of new product development to ensure its products meet the market requirement for systems that provide quality, reliability and economic through life cost for both new build and retrofits. Radamec Control Systems company has an established reputation for its range of electronic and electromechanical Bridge Control Systems / Data Logging & Alarm Systems / Telegraphs / Tachometers / Watchkeeper Safety at Sea Systems / Consoles and Ruggedised Terminals.

Adaptive Networks keeps communication down-to-the-wire. It researches, develops, and sells chipsets and modules that helps transmit data at high speeds over ordinary electrical power lines. The technology has been adapted for commercial and industrial data networks -- hospitals, hotels, utility companies -- and also has applications in home networking. The company was founded in 1983 by the Propp brothers, Michael (president) and David (EVP), and applied for its first patent in 1986. Products include PowerStream (used for streaming multimedia including video and audio) and PowerConnect (powerline communications chipset). Outside investors own about three-quarters of the company, with officers holding one-quarter.

Brooks Automation Inc. company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Brooks Automation, Inc. (Brooks) is a provider of automation, vacuum and instrumentation solutions and is a business partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and equipment users throughout the world. The Company also provides solutions to customers in data storage, advanced display, analytical instruments and solar markets. Brooks operates in three segments: Critical Solutions Group, Systems Solutions Group and Global Customer Operations. The Critical Solutions Group segment provides a variety of products critical to technology equipment productivity and availability. The Systems Solutions Group segment provides a range of products and engineering and manufacturing services. The Global Customer Operations segment provides a range of support services.

Werner Electric Supply Company wholesales an array of electrical products and services, from lighting, factory automation, and data communications systems, to energy audits. Its lineup includes programmable logic controllers from Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation, datacom equipment from Leviton Manufacturing, and lighting from OSRAM SYLVANIA. The company specializes in electrical applications for OEMs and construction contractors, as well as industrial plant and commercial building maintenance and automation. Its 11 centers dot Wisconsin and Michigan. Founded in 1948, Werner Electric Supply company was purchased from the Werner family in 1986 by president and CEO Mr. Lynn T. MacDonald.

Cymer Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Cymer, Inc., is a supplier of light sources used in the photolithography process for semiconductor or chip, manufacturing. The Company provides sources designed to help enable the performance of edge wafer steppers and wafer scanners built by its lithography tool manufacturers. It also supplies deep ultraviolet (DUV) light sources to each of lithography tool manufacturer customers ASML, Canon and Nikon, who integrate the light source into their wafer steppers and scanners which they then provide to chipmakers. The Company’s wholly owned operating subsidiaries: Cymer Japan, Inc. (Cymer Japan), Cymer Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Cymer Singapore), Cymer B.V. in the Netherlands (Cymer B.V.), Cymer Southeast Asia, Ltd., in Taiwan (Cymer SEA), Cymer Semiconductor Equipment Shanghai Co., Ltd., China (Cymer PRC) and Cymer Korea, Inc. (Cymer Korea). As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s installed base of light sources totaled 3,374 light sources.

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