Mattson Technology, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Mattson Technology, Inc. (Mattson) is engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs or chips). Mattson is a supplier of dry strip and rapid thermal processing equipment to the global semiconductor industry. The Company’s customer base includes foundries, memory and logic device manufacturers. The Company has design and manufacturing centers in the United States, Canada and Germany. Mattson’s manufacturing equipment is used for transistor level, or front-end-of-line manufacturing, and also in specialized applications for processing the interconnect layer, or back-end-of-line processing. A strip system removes photoresist or other residues from a wafer following each step of film deposition or diffusion processing in preparation for the next processing step. Methods for stripping off these residues include wet and dry technologies.

LEA International, a subsidiary of Smiths Group plc, makes surge suppression equipment. Its products range from large-scale equipment for telecom and utilities applications to protectors for home electronics. Other applications include broadcast, data center, medical, and manufacturing operations.

Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Zhuhai, the People's Republic of China. Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Actions) is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets integrated platform solutions, including system-on-a-chips (SoCs), firmware, software development tools and reference designs, for manufacturers of portable media players. The Company provides integrated platform solutions to portable media player manufacturers, brand owners and value-added distributors that enable them to accelerate the time-to-market for their products.

Industrial Scientific Corporation company designs, manufactures, sells, and services gas monitoring instruments, systems, software, and related products to detect oxygen, combustible, and toxic gases. The products are used in work environments such as underground mines and oil refineries as well as by hazardous response units. New portable and fixed-point products like the GasBadge (monitor) and DS2 Docking Station (automated instrument calibration) are compatible with iNet, the first automated remote gas monitor maintenance and management system.

CiDRA company now offers the SONARtrac line of process measuring instruments, used in oil and gas wells monitoring, mineral processing, paper and pulp manufacturing, and other industrial applications. SONARtrac can keep track of gases, liquids, slurries, and various fluids. CiDRA was founded by president and CEO Kevin Didden in 1996. In 2003 the company spun off a supplier of instruments for the biosciences, CyVera, that was acquired in 2005 by Illumina. In mid-2008 CiDRA sold its oil and gas metering business to Expro International Group for $60.5 million in cash.

TT electronics plc is the parent company of a Group whose principal activities during the year were the design, manufacture and sale of electronic and electrical components for the automotive, telecom and computer, aerospace, defence and other industrial markets. The Company’s business sectors include: Sensors and electronic systems, Electronic components, Electronic manufacturing services, and Secure power and industrial. Electronic components include resistors, microcircuits, potentiometers and trimmers, power control modules. Electronic manufacturing services include printed circuit board and higher level assemblies. Secure power and industrial include standby and continuous power systems, electrical transmission and connection systems and insulation products. On 2 April 2008 the Company acquired New Chapel Electronics Limited. On 21 August 2008 the Company acquired assets comprising the majority of the business of Semelab Limited.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and supply of products and systems for the life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry, and other markets worldwide. The company's products are used to separate complex chemical and biological materials, and to identify, analyze, and purify their components. It operates in two segments, Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics. The Life Science segment offers electrophoresis, image analysis, molecular detection, chromatography, gene transfer, sample preparation, and amplification products and services. This segment serves universities and medical schools, industrial research organizations, government agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology researchers, and food testing laboratories. The Clinical Diagnostics segment provides control, autoimmune, diabetes, and blood virus testing products. This segment serves hospital laboratories, reference laboratories, physician office laboratories, government agencies, and diagnostic manufacturers. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Hercules, California.

Richards Electric Supply distributes electrical products, lighting fixtures and supplies, motors and drives, industrial automation equipment, and data/voice/video systems from a wide variety of manufacturers, including GE, Siemens, Thomas and Betts, OSRAM SYLVANIA, and Leviton. Richards Electric Supply sells to customers through six branches in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. The company's customers include electrical and specialty contractors, original equipment manufacturers, industrial automation providers.

Digital Voice Systems manufactures electronic components, devices, and software designed to record and process digital audio for storage and transmission. The company's products include vocoder chips and interface boards as well as network devices that convert analog audio to digital formats. Digital Voice's customers use its products to enable such communications applications as digital mobile radio, satellite communications, inflight telephony and aircraft communications, and digital voice recorders.

Fuhrlander company makes and distributes wind turbines that produce from 30kW to 2.5 MW of electricity. Its products are also used to provide power for applications such as seawater desalination and air purification. Fuhrlander provides design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and repair services for its own and third-party systems. The company licenses its technologies and partners with distributors in the US, UK, and Vietnam. Fuhrlander has opened a manufacturing plant in China to serve a growing number of customers in the region -- including A-Power Energy -- and has announced plans to expand operations in the US by building a plant in Montana.

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