Wellex was founded in 1983 by Jackson Wang (CEO), Chern Lee (former CEO), and Danny Lee (former chairman). Wellex provides a welcome break from manufacturing chores. As a contract electronics manufacturer, Wellex makes printed circuit boards (PCBs) for OEMs in the computer, data storage, industrial equipment, medical equipment, networking, security systems, and telecommunications industries. The company offers surface-mount and pin-through-hole PCB assemblies, along with design, testing, and repair services, to such diverse customers as Eastman Kodak, Ingersoll-Rand, St. Jude Medical, and Sun Microsystems, with plants in China and the US.

Trek Equipment was started in 1996. Founder and CEO Mike Creazzi owns the company. Stardate 4729.4 -- Chief engineer Montgomery Scott informs me that the Enterprise needs to return to the 21st century to procure some rare test equipment. We've set a course for the San Francisco Bay area, where Starfleet makes its headquarters, and a computer review of historical records shows we can obtain such valuable instruments at...Trek Equipment distributes test and measurement equipment, such as amplifiers, attenuators, couplers, generators, oscilloscopes, and sensors. The company sells instruments made by a deep roster of suppliers, such as Agilent, Keithley, Rohde & Schwarz, and Tektronix.

Paul N. Gardner Company, Inc. (GARDCO) has its origin with the alliance of pioneer paint chemist Dr. Henry Alfred Gardner, Sr., Director of the Institute of Paint and Varnish Research in Washington, D.C. and his son Paul Norris Gardner in 1935. The team of Institute chemists at that time were active in the development and design of physical testing instruments for coating materials which were then made available to the industry. However, production of these instruments was not generally available to the public so the Henry A. Gardner Laboratory was established and incorporated in Bethesda, Maryland for that purpose.

Measurement Specialties, Inc. engages in the design, development, and manufacture of sensors and sensor-based systems for original equipment manufacturers and end users. It offers pressure sensors and transducers, linear/rotary position sensors, piezoelectric polymer film sensors, custom microstructures, load cells, accelerometers, optical sensors, humidity, and temperature sensors. The company's technologies include piezo-resistive silicon sensors, application-specific integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems, piezoelectric polymers, foil strain gauges, force balance systems, fluid capacitive devices, linear and rotational variable differential transformers, electromagnetic displacement sensors, hygroscopic capacitive sensors, ultrasonic sensors, optical sensors, negative thermal coefficient ceramic sensors, and mechanical resonators. Its products are used for automotive, medical, consumer, military/aerospace, and industrial applications. The company sells its sensor products through regional sales managers, distributors, and outside sales representatives in the United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and China. Measurement Specialties, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hampton, Virginia.

Victron, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Fremont, California. Victron, Inc. provides electronics manufacturing services for OEMs. It specializes in printed circuit board assembly. The company offers supply chain, new product solutions, manufacturing solutions, test solutions, and repair depot services. It provides its services in new product introduction, prototyping, printed circuit board assembly and test, subsystem assembly and test, final system assembly and test, build to order, configure to order, and product fulfillment and shipping. The company serves wireless/wireline telecom, medical, industrial/commercial, networking, defense/aerospace/security, computing, aviation, automotive, and consumer industries.

Innolume GmbH supplies semiconductor makers with customized epitaxial wafers. These wafers are produced through the process of epitaxy, which gives them special types of chemical crystals; this, in turn, gives special properties to the microchips made from the wafers. Devices made from Innolume's wafers include vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers, superluminescent light-emitting diodes, quantum dot lasers, and other optoelectronic components. The company's investors include PolyTechnos and PEPPERMINT.Financial Partners. In 2006 Innolume acquired a rival, Zia Laser of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Innolume GmbH company has facilities in Germany and the US.

Q-Tran manufactures electronic components, such as toroidal transformers and power supply centers, for low-voltage lighting fixtures. It also makes ballasts, power units, lighting power supplies, and low-voltage power supplies. The company was established in 1993 and is owned by its officers. Founder and CEO John Tremaine started the business after entering his family's lighting business more than two decades earlier, establishing his own lighting design practice in 1980, and opening a lighting showroom in 1985.

Micrel Inc. was founded in 1978 and is based in San Jose, California. Micrel Incorporated, doing business as Micrel Semiconductor, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of high-performance analog power integrated circuits (ICs), mixed-signal, and digital ICs in North America, Europe, and Asia. It offers various power management products, including single-board and enterprise servers, network switches and routers, storage area networks, and wireless base stations for the networking and communications infrastructure markets. The company also provides standard analog products for industrial, defense, and automotive electronics markets. In addition, it manufactures custom analog and mixed-signal circuits; and provides wafer foundry services to the customers who produce electronic systems for communications, consumer, and military applications. Further, the company offers highly integrated radio frequency products, including QwikRadio devices, which include remote keyless entry for automobiles, garage door openers, and remote controls. Additionally, it provides Ethernet products, which include physical layer transceivers, media access controllers, switches, and system-on-chip devices for the digital home and industrial/embedded networking markets.

Pixim, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Mountain View, California. Pixim, Inc. provides digital imaging systems that allow camera developers to design and build cameras. Its products include chipsets that comprise digital image sensors, digital image processors, and software, which is used in various applications, such as security and video surveillance, network/IP cameras, machine vision, broadband video conferencing, traffic, and automotive; and camera development kits. The company’s products are also used in industrial and manufacturing automation processes, and healthcare and commercial movie making applications, as well as in home sensors for fire and burglary protection. It sells its products through sales representatives in Soquel, California; Hartsburg, Missouri; Taipei, Taiwan; Shenzhen, China; Surrey, the United Kingdom; and South Korea, Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Israel, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The company has locations in Germany and Hong Kong; and Tokyo, Japan.

Shell Hydrogen knows that you can fuel some of the people some of the time -- with alternative fuels. Founded in 1999, the company, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, promotes and markets the use of fuel cells as an alternative power source. Shell Hydrogen works in conjunction with partners such as General Motors (developing fuel cells for automobiles), California Fuel Cell Partnership (developing fuel cell technologies) and QuestAir Technologies (hydrogen purification).

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