Cree, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. Cree, Inc. develops and manufactures semiconductor materials and devices based on silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds. The Company focuses its expertise in SiC and GaN on light emitting diodes (LEDs), which consist of LED chips, LED components and LED lighting products. It also develops power and radio frequency (RF) products, including power switching and RF devices. The majority of Cree, Inc. products are manufactured at its main production facility in North Carolina. It also operates research and development facilities in North Carolina, California, Hong Kong and China. In February 2008, the Company acquired LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc. (Cree LED Lighting Solutions, Inc.).

Border States Industries (also known as Border States Electric Supply, or BSE) distributes electrical and electronic products for such industries as automation, communications, construction, plumbing, and utilities. The company has a distribution partnership with OSRAM SYLVANIA. Border States carries data networking equipment in its product catalog. The company operates about 57 branches serving customers in over 10 states, primarily along the northern and southern borders of the nation.

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.

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (Suntech) is a solar energy company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets a variety of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. It also provides PV system integration services in China. The Company's products are used in a variety of residential, commercial, industrial and public utility applications in various markets. Suntech sells its products in various key solar energy markets worldwide, including Spain, Germany, the United States, China, South Korea, Italy, the Middle East, Australia and Japan. As of December 31, 2008, the average conversion efficiency rates of the Company's monocrystalline and multicrystalline silicon PV cells were 17.2% and 15.2%, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company commenced the production of PV cells utilizing the Pluto technology, a PV technology that allows conversion efficiency rates in the range of 18.0% to 19.0% on PV cells manufactured with monocrystalline silicon wafers.

Nederlandsche Apparatenfabriek, produces a wide variety of sensor-based tracking equipment and secure communications systems. Its products include retail detection equipment for counting customers and preventing shoplifting; industrial systems that track individual items through the manufacturing process; security systems that determine access based on biometric (finger, hand, face, or iris) measurements; library management systems; electronic voting machines; and remote tracking systems used to keep up with livestock. Many of its offerings incorporate radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.

Argon ST, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide systems engineering, development, and services in the United States and internationally. Its services include command, control, communication, computer, combat system, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems and services. The company designs and develops sensors and countermeasures, information operation and electronic attack systems, communication systems and networks, navigation systems, geolocation systems, and net centric systems. Its systems and services enable its customers to perform various functions, including signals intelligence, electronic warfare, information operations, acoustic operations, threat simulation, imaging, cyber operations, and tactical communications and networking, as well as sustain readiness, systems operations, and mission success services. The company's systems involve the detection and geolocation of threats, and processing of information collected from the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly communications and radar signals. Argon ST also provides underwater acoustic systems and imaging systems; and systems that detect, intercept, and process information passed on networks. The company's systems are used in military and strategic platforms, including surface ships, submarines, unmanned underwater vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, land mobile vehicles, fixed site installations, and relocatable land sites. Argon ST offers its products primarily to the department of defense, including various agencies and commands within the United States navy; the other United States government agencies and domestic prime contractors; and to certain U.S. government-approved foreign governments, agencies, and defense contractors, as well as commercial enterprises. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia.

ProMOS Technologies Inc. is a semiconductor memory solution provider in Taiwan. The Company is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and sale of synchronous dynamic random access memories (SDRAMs), as well as the related import and export businesses. The Company provides 64 megabytes (Mb), 128 Mb and 256Mb SDRAMs, 128Mb, 256Mb and 512Mb double data rate (DDR) SDRAMs, as well as 256 Mb, 512Mb and 1 gigabytes (Gb) DDR2 SDRAMs, among others. The Company's products are mainly applied in personal computers, notebook computers, servers, work stations and advanced computers, among others. The Company distributes its products within the domestic market and to overseas markets.

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.

America II Electronics, Inc. with a dream of establishing a successful distributorship in the integrated circuit market. Today, America II stands as one of the largest, and most preferred,* independent distributors of electronic components in the world, keeping the dream alive. America II dream lies a commitment to total customer satisfaction. A devoted electronic commodity purchasing department, semiconductor sales specialists, and global online product sourcing connect customers with one of the largest semiconductor inventories in the world. The company also offers a variety of inventory management programs to provide solutions to customers attempting to manage mature or excess product, including a strategic alliance with franchised electronic component distributor Avnet Inc. that puts America II's logistics and inventory management expertise behind an online market exchange (launched October 2001).

BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing enterprise in India in the energy-related/infrastructure sector, today. BHEL was established more than 40 years ago, ushering in the indigenous Heavy Electrical Equipment industry in India - a dream that has been more than realized with a well-recognized track record of performance.BHEL manufactures over 180 products under 30 major product groups and caters to core sectors of the Indian Economy viz., Power Generation & Transmission, Industry, Transportation, Telecommunication, Renewable Energy, etc. The wide network of BHEL's 14 manufacturing divisions, four Power Sector regional centres, over 100 project sites, eight service centres and 18 regional offices, enables the Company to promptly serve its customers and provide them with suitable products, systems and services -- efficiently and at competitive prices. The high level of quality & reliability of its products is due to the emphasis on design, engineering and manufacturing to international standards by acquiring and adapting some of the best technologies from leading companies in the world, together with technologies developed in its own R&D centres.BHEL has acquired certifications to Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001), Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems (OHSAS 18001) and is also well on its journey towards Total Quality Management.

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