PV Crystalox Solar PLC is engaged in the production and supply of multi-crystalline silicon wafers to the photovoltaic market worldwide. The Company has two segments: silicon products, and trading and equipment. The silicon products segment consists of silicon ingots and wafers produced by the Company companies and sold to solar cell manufacturers. The trading and equipment segment is mainly involved in the sourcing of silicon ingots from a supplier to the Company and the onwards supply of these ingots to a customer. In addition, the trading and equipment segment includes a relatively small amount of spare parts manufactured by PV Crystalox Solar PLC. The Company manufactures its multi-crystalline silicon ingots at its facilities in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, and carries out wafer production for European customers at its facilities in Erfurt, Germany. Wafers for customers in Asia are produced in Japan.

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (TriQuint) is a supplier of modules, components and foundry services to communications companies. The Company offers different radio frequency (RF) and other intermediate frequency products that address three markets: handsets, networks and military systems. The Company’s products are designed on various wafer substrates, including compound semiconductor materials, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and piezoelectric crystals, such as lithium tantalate (LiTaO3). The Company uses technologies using GaAs substrates, including heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). Using various other substrates the Company also manufacture surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) products.On May 22, 2008, TriQuint completed the acquisition of WJ Communications, Inc. In September 2009, the Company announced the acquisition of TriAccess Technologies.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) is principally engaged in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs) for customers based on their own or third parties' IC designs. The Company offers a range of wafer fabrication processes, including embedded non-volatile memory process, embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) process, mixed signal/ radio frequency (RF) process, high voltage process, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor process, color filter process, micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) process and silicon germanium process, among others. The Company's chips are used in computer products, communications products and consumer electronic products. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had seven wafer plants.

SIONEX Corporation company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Sionex Corporation is a former subsidiary of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Sionex Corporation develops and sells sensor hardware and software products for threat detection, medical diagnostics, process control, and monitoring markets. The company provides chemical and biological sensor chips and subsystems based on microDMx detection technology. It provides microAnalyzer, an integrated system that detects, identifies, and measures minute quantities of chemicals in air and vaporized liquids at the point of collection; sensor and board kits, which are designed to be integrated by customers who possess engineering, design, and computer engineering resources; and mass spectrometry pre-filters that have applications in homeland security and defense. The company also provides The Sionex Value Added Component SVAC that contains detector and electronic boards, as well as sample pumps, flow controllers, and operational software; and differential mobility spectroscopy and ion mobility spectroscopy detectors that enable identifying and confirming compounds in the presence of interferences and complex matrices in seconds. In addition, it provides customized software development services, including Expert software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support application development, production, diagnostics/troubleshooting, and data capture; and Total Ion Flow software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support ionization optimization projects, radioactive, and non-radioactive. Further, the company provides evaluation systems, which allow basic testing and discovery of technology for various applications. It offers its solutions for various commercial applications, including monitoring of industrial and petrochemical compounds, chemical and biological warfare agents, explosives, and narcotics, as well as for automobile engines and consumer products.

Jenoptik now focuses on some very specific markets. With the sale of M&W Zander, which made up the company's Clean Systems Technologies unit (and the majority of its sales at one time), Jenoptik reorganized into three segments -- Lasers and Optical Systems, Metrology, and Defense & Civil Systems -- and five product divisions under those segments. Users of the company's offerings include chip makers, such as IBM, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, and Texas Instruments, as well as chip equipment manufacturers, including ASML. Jenoptik gets more than half of its sales outside Germany.

Headquartered in Porter, Maine, USA, Vulcan was formed in 1927 to serve the process and industrial heating equipment markets with innovative heating solutions. Through the years Vulcan Electric company have developed many new technologies, and acquired others. Today, the organization includes divisions that provide products and services for Thermal Solutions and Flexible Circuits. The company Thermal Solutions division is one of only a few manufacturers with a full complement of metal-sheathed heaters, temperature sensors, and temperature control products. Many of Vulcan's temperature measurement products are engineered into equipment at the world's leading semiconductor companies. Other areas of sensor expertise include advanced ultra-high temperature materials applications and metallurgical processes. The company Flexible Circuits Solutions division offers a full range of state-of-the-art products for flexible circuit interconnect needs. And company offer a full range of services to design, manufacture and implement the appropriate solution for virtually any application.

Microfluidics International Corporation, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Microfluidics Corporation, engages in the production and marketing of fluid materials processing systems. Its products are used for various fluid grinding, mixing, milling, and blending applications in chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food processing, and cosmetics industries. The company's Microfluidizer fluid processor equipment processes premixed formulations to produce small, uniform structures, including nanostructures, microemulsions, and nanosuspensions. Its equipment is also used for cell disruption to harvest the cultivated contents of bacterial yeast, mammalian and/or plant cells, as well as for the liposomal encapsulation of materials for the cosmetics and biotech/biopharma industries. The company sells its equipment and services through a network of independent manufacturers representative firms in the United States, Central and South America, Mexico, and Canada; independent regional sales agents in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and distributor and independent manufacturer's representative firms in Asia and the Pacific Rim. The company was formerly known as MFIC Corporation and changed its name to Microfluidics International Corporation in June 2008. Microfluidics International Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.

GlobiTech Incorporated company creates wafers for integrated circuit makers. The wafers tout an extra layer of single-crystal silicon on top, along with physical properties, that make them ideal for advanced semiconductors with narrow circuit dimensions. (All of Intel's microprocessors are made on epitaxial wafers.) GlobiTech epi wafers are produced on equipment from Applied Materials and other vendors. Blue chip customers include International Rectifier, ROHM, and Vishay Intertechnology. Formed in 1999, GlobiTech was acquired in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Sino-American Silicon Products.

UTC Power can't help trying to overhaul the way we think about power generation. UTC Power is the division of United Technologies that absorbed UTC Fuel Cells in 2007. UTC Power makes onsite power generation systems for commercial, transportation, and space applications. Its systems use fuel cells, microturbines, chillers, and heat exchangers in various combinations to generate power from natural gas or exhaust energy with little or no emissions. United Technologies is in the process of incorporating UTC Power's combined cooling, heating, and power systems business within the businesses of its Carrier subsidiary.

The Solaria Corporation, a solar technology company, manufactures cells and modules for the optics and semiconductor industries. The company develops cell and module technologies that fit into the existing value-add chain. It uses a low-concentration solar PV multiplying technology that produces PV cells from silicon material. The company is based in Fremont, California with locations in the United States, Germany, and the Philippines.

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