In 2005, EOTech was acquired by L-3 Communications. L-3 Communications has grown very quickly into the sixth largest defense company in the United States and is a leader and prime defense contractor in Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), secure communications, government services, training and simulation and aircraft modernization and maintenance. The company also is a leading merchant supplier of guidance and navigation products and systems, sensors, scanners, fuzes, data links, propulsion systems, avionics, electro optics, satellite communications, electrical power equipment, encryption products, signal intelligence, antennas and microwave products. L-3 EOTech designs, manufactures, and markets electro-optics products and systems. It uses advanced laser and holographic technology to enhance optical devices in target acquisition systems, recreational sport optics, and sighted automation environments. L-3 EOTech invented, designed, and manufactures the Holographic Weapon Sight (HWS) - the world's first holographic sighting system for small and medium-sized weapon platforms.

Zoran Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Canada, China, England, France, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Zoran Corporation is a provider of digital solutions in the digital entertainment and digital imaging market. Zoran has developed high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications and Connect Share Entertain technologies for the digital home. The Company’s products consist of integrated circuits and related products used in digital versatile disc (DVD), players, movie and home theater systems, digital cameras and video editing systems. It provides integrated circuits (ICs), software and platforms for digital television applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television, as well as digital imaging products consisting of semiconductor hardware and software that enable users to print, scan, process and transmit documents to computer peripherals that perform printing functions. On June 12, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Let It Wave, which is a fabless development-stage semiconductor company.

The Honeywell International unit develops and manufactures chemicals and specialty materials used in the production of semiconductors and flat-panel displays. Its offerings include dielectric and metal thin films, interconnect and optoelectronic materials, and processing chemicals (such as etchants, acids, and solvents) used at various points in the chip manufacturing cycle. HEM is part of Honeywell's Specialty Materials segment, one of the industrial conglomerate's smaller operating groups.

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.

Hoku Scientific, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a materials science company. It focuses on the manufacture of solar-grade polysilicon, which is used in photovoltaic (PV) modules; and design, engineering, and installation of turnkey PV systems and related services using solar modules purchased from third party suppliers. The company also designs, develops, and manufactures membranes, and membrane electrode assemblies for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Its membrane electrode assemblies are designed for the residential primary power, commercial back-up, and automotive hydrogen fuel cell markets. The company was formerly known as Pacific Energy Group, Inc. and changed its name to Hoku Scientific, Inc. in July 2001. Hoku Scientific, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Kapolei, Hawaii.

Le Carbone Lorraine's brushes -- which transfer the network current in a DC electric motor -- brush up not only cars but industrial machinery and other products. The company, which specializes in carbon and graphite products, also makes permanent magnets (ferrite magnets) for cars and electrical protection fuses, as well as products for thermal, corrosion-resistant applications, such as graphite machined blocks and composite materials for brakes. Carbone Lorraine's products serve a variety of industries from aerospace to power generation.

EG Systems, LLC company's lineup aims to discover flaws and thereby improve the efficiency and output of its customers' wafer fabrication facilities. EG automated probers check semiconductor wafers for defects before the wafers are separated and packaged as individual chips. The company also supplies test handling systems for quality assurance during the final stages of chip production. Software to improve chip production yields is offered, too. More than half of EG's sales are from overseas. Formerly Electroglas, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in mid 2009 and reemerged in the fall.

Dionex Corporation designs, manufactures, markets, and services analytical instrumentation and related accessories, and chemicals. The company offers a range of liquid chromatography systems, sample preparation devices, and related products that are used by chemists to separate and quantify the individual components of chemical mixtures in industrial, research, and laboratory markets. Its liquid chromatography systems include ion chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography products. The company also develops and manufactures consumables, including columns, suppressors, and RFIC eluent generation cartridges; detectors used to measure the quantity of various sample components after separated in a chromatography column; automation products that automate sample handling, system operation, and data analysis for chromatography systems; mass spectrometry, which identifies the molecular weight of compounds within a sample substance and renders structural molecular information; and the Integral Process Analyzer for continuous on-line monitoring in power generation, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical and chemical industries. In addition, the company designs and manufactures a range of specialty detectors and reagents, as well as provides analytical services, including industrial hygiene and clinical diagnostic analysis, and metabolomics profiling. Its customers include environmental testing laboratories, life science and food companies, chemical/petrochemical firms, power generation facilities, electronics manufacturers, government agencies, and academic institutions. Dionex Corporation markets and distributes its products and services through its sales force in Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Viasystems Group Inc. company makes electronic systems and subsystems, such as printed circuit boards (PCBs) and backpanel assemblies, metal enclosures, cabinets, and racks. It also offers design, prototyping, full system assembly, testing, and supply chain management services. Viasystems' products are used in automotive dashboards, major appliances, computer storage devices, networking hardware, telecom switching equipment, and instrumentation. General Electric, Alcatel-Lucent, Continental AG, Bosch, and Siemens are among its largest customers. Viasystems and Merix Corporation merged their operations in February 2010.

Applied Precision Inc. is an advanced manufacturing technology company established in 1999 and based in the Greater Toronto Area, central to one of the largest manufacturing regions in North America. Our commitment is to provide our customers with solutions for accelerating product development and faster, more effective quality inspection, based upon world class 3D digitizing technologies. All of these technologies are portable and all are based upon highly advanced optical 3D measurement. Whether you are considering implementing 3D digitizing equipment and software or have occasional needs for product development and quality inspection assistance, we are there to help you.With a highly skilled team of 3D measurement specialists and a decade of experience, we serve many companies, small and large, across the United States, Canada and Mexico in many interesting and diverse sectors.

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