Ultratech, Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Ultratech, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets photolithography and laser thermal processing equipment. It offers step-and-repeat photolithography systems based on one-to-one imaging technology to semiconductor device manufacturers for applications involving line geometries of 0.75 microns or greater and to nanotechnology manufacturers. The company's steppers are also used to manufacture semiconductors that are used in various applications, such as telecommunications, automotive control systems, power systems, and consumer electronics. In addition, it offers LSA100, a laser-based thermal annealing tool used by the semiconductor industry for various process steps, including activation of implanted impurities, dielectric film formation, formation of silicides, and stabilization of copper grain structure. Ultratech sells its products to advanced packaging, thin film head, ink jet printer/accelerometer, semiconductor, and various other nanotechnology manufacturers in North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and the rest of Asia.

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.

Intel UK serves as the European headquarters for the world's top semiconductor maker. The company manufactures microprocessors, used in desktop and notebook PCs, servers, and workstations. Other products include flash memory and embedded semiconductors used in communications, industrial equipment, and point-of-sale applications. The company also provides professional services, such as application integration and platform migration. Intel's largest customers are computing leaders Dell and Hewlett-Packard. Along with BT Group and Microsoft, Intel took part in the UK's Home Computing Initiative (HCI), a government scheme to promote the benefits of home computing in enhancing job skills.

Allegro Microsystems, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing power integrated circuits (IC) and integrated hall-effect magnetic sensors. It offers motor driver ICs, power conversion devices, power interface ICs, and power management ICs. The company also offers transistors, regulators, and semiconductor devices; and high-voltage isolation current sensor ICs for current sensing applications in industrial, commercial, and communications systems. Allegro Microsystems, Inc. serves automotive electronics, office automation, industrial, and portable electronics markets. The company offers its products through direct sales force, manufacturer representatives, and distribution network to original equipment manufacturers in the United States and internationally. Allegro Microsystems, Inc. was formerly known as Allegro Holding Corporation and changed its name to Allegro Microsystems, Inc. in April 1997. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts. It has sales, design, and marketing offices in Scotland, the United Kingdom, France, and Argentina, as well as facilities in Worcester, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Warminster, Pennsylvania; Parañaque, the Philippines; Surrey, the United Kingdom; Musselburgh, Scotland; and Park Nord Annecy, France. The company operates manufacturing plants in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and the Philippines. Allegro Microsystems, Inc. is a subsidiary of Sanken Electric Co. Ltd.

Spansion Inc. (Spansion) is a semiconductor device company engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing, licensing and selling Flash memory solutions. The Company's Flash memory is integrated into a range of electronic products, including mobile phones, consumer electronics, automotive electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, servers and computer peripherals. Its Flash memory solutions are incorporated in products from original equipment manufacturers, in each of these markets. Spansion operates three Flash memory wafer fabrication facilities and four assembly and test facilities. On March 18, 2008, Spansion completed the acquisition of Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. On March 1, 2009, Spansion Inc., Spansion Technology LLC, Spansion LLC, Spansion International, Inc. and Cerium Laboratories LLC, each filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Charcroft Electronics is a privately-owned specialist distributor of commercial, BS/CECC and Mil-Std passive and interconnect components and manufacturer of leaded and surface-mount Bulk Metal® Foil Vishay-approved precision resistors and BS/CECC-approved radial multilayer ceramic capacitors.Charcroft Electronics is located in a building whose origins date back to c1535, on the banks of the River Irfon in Llanwrtyd Wells, the smallest town in Great Britain. In contrast to its past history as a spa town, when hundreds flocked to take the ‘waters’ for their ‘medicinal effects’, the area is now more well known for its pony trekking, mountain biking, walking and bird watching together with its annual Man v Horse competition, Beer Festival and World Bog Snorkelling Championship. Having moved to Mid-Wales in 1985 after spending eleven years in Suffolk, where the company was formed, Charcroft now enjoys fully renovated offices and stores in one of the most idyllic locations in the country, with the latest computer software and systems. Our BS9000 and CECC approved manufacturing facility now includes silver mica as well as ceramic capacitors and precision resistors. Charcroft also assembles custom connectors with the option of flying-leads and offers an express manufacturing service, Precision Express®, together with an in-house taping and reeling facility for prototype and pre-production quantities. We have distribution approval to BS9000, IECQCECC and BS EN ISO9001:2000 and with our U.S.A. office based in South Carolina, Charcroft Electronics can meet all your global requirements for Passives, Interconnect and Emech.

Phoenix International Corporation offers no ashes from which to rise, just ruggedized electronic components. A subsidiary of Deere & Company, the contract manufacturer makes printed circuit boards and other electronic components for use in rugged mobile equipment applications, such as automotive, trucking, construction, agriculture, mining, military, and material handling. Industrial/commercial applications include wind power, irrigation, golf carts, generators, compressors, and appliances. Phoenix International operates five manufacturing and design facilities in the US (3), Mexico, and India; it provides design, manufacture, testing, service, and warranty.

Alco Holdings is a consumer electronics contract manufacturer specializing in audio, video, telephone, and computer products. Products include portable DVD players, DVD home theater systems, LCD TVs, CD changers, multidisc (MD) recorders, CD clock radios, car stereos, cordless phones, and karaoke machines. The company, which also sells products under its own Venturer brand, provides additional manufacturing services, such as design and engineering, prototyping, product packaging, and supply chain management.

Munro Distributing sells electrical products, including capacitors, line conditioning equipment, grounding resistors, circuit breakers, and related tools and supplies, to customers in the northeastern US. Manufacturers on the line card include Fluke, Intermatic, Leviton Manufacturing, and Milwaukee Electric Tool. The company, founded in 1942, operates through half a dozen locations in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Chairman Alexander William Munro established Munro Distributing, which does business as Munro Electrical Supplies.

Varian, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and services scientific instruments and vacuum products. The company operates in two segments, Scientific Instruments and Vacuum Technologies. The Scientific Instruments segment offers analytical instruments, such as mass spectrometers, chromatography instruments, optical spectroscopy instruments, and dissolution testing equipment; research products, which include nuclear magnetic resonance products, spectroscopy systems, magnetic resonance imaging systems, X-ray crystallography systems, and superconducting magnets used in scientific instruments; consumable products, including columns for gas and liquid chromatography, and products for the preparation of samples prior to analysis by gas and liquid chromatography; and related software, accessories and services. These products are used in life science, environmental, energy, applied research, and other applications requiring identification, quantification, and analysis of the elemental, molecular, biological composition, or structure of liquids, solids, or gases. The Vacuum Technologies segment provides high and ultra-high vacuum pumps, such as diffusion, turbomolecular, and ion getter; intermediate vacuum pumps consisting of rotary vane, sorption, and dry scroll; vacuum instrumentation, which include vacuum control instruments, sensor gauges, and meters; and vacuum components comprising valves, flanges, and other mechanical hardware. These products are used to create, control, measure, and test vacuum environments in life science, environmental, energy, research, and other applications. This segment also offers helium mass spectrometry and helium-sensing leak detection instruments used to identify and measure leaks in hermetic or vacuum environments. The company sells its products and services in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Varian, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

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