Itron, Inc. provides products and services to utilities for the energy and water markets worldwide. It produces electricity, gas, water, and heat meters; and various other associated metering products for residential, commercial and industrial (C&I), and transmission and distribution customers. The company offers electronic electricity meters with and without automated meter reading (AMR); gas and water AMR modules; handheld, mobile, and network AMR data collection technologies; advanced metering infrastructure technologies; electromechanical electricity meters; mechanical and ultrasonic water and heat meters; diaphragm, turbine, and rotary gas meters; one-way and two-way electricity prepayment systems, including smart key, keypad, and smart card; and two-way gas prepayment systems using smart card. It also provides solutions for residential and C&I meter data management; consulting and analysis services; professional services that assist customers in installing and maintaining meter reading systems; managed services that include the issuing of prepayment devices, automated processing of transaction details, customer account management, maintenance of historical financial transactions, business to business call centers, and personalized mailing services. In addition, the company offers software knowledge applications, including modules for C&I complex billing; Web-based usage analysis for customers with advanced metering data; distribution asset analysis; load research and management; revenue protection, including theft detection and identification of unbilled revenue; and central market data collection and load settlement. Itron sells its products through direct sales force, distributors, representative agencies, partners, and meter manufacturer representatives, as well as through original equipment manufacturer arrangements with various meter manufacturers. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington.

Founded in 1997, Crystal IS, Inc. makes materials -- specifically, single-crystal aluminum nitride substrates -- for the semiconductor industry. Crystal IS's nitride substrates are the materials chip makers use to make high-power, high-temperature, and optoelectronic semiconductors for ultraviolet, high-power radio-frequency, solid-state lighting, biomedical, wireless communications, microwave, and other applications. The company is working to increase the size, growth rate, and yield of its substrates in order to produce higher-quality wafers at lower costs; it is working to commercialize a 5cm diameter substrate.

Nanomix, Inc. manufactures devices used in respiratory and biomolecule detection applications. It offers biomolecule products used in DNA, protein, and glucose detection; respiratory products used in asthma monitoring, emergency airway management monitoring, sleep apnea screening, waveform capnography, procedural sedation monitoring, and disease diagnostics and metabolic testing; and NANOTECT monitors that detect low levels of industrial gas for environmental monitoring and demand controlled ventilation. The company was formerly known as Covalent Materials, Inc. Nanomix, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California.

On Track Innovations Ltd. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Rosh Pina, Israel. On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) designs, develops and markets secure contactless microprocessor-based smart card technology to address the needs of a variety of markets. Because the Company’s cards contain a microprocessor, they can store and process information and run multiple applications. OTI’s cards are referred to as contactless because they do not require physical contact with a card reader, as power and data are transferred to a card through a magnetic field generated by a card reader. The Company offers three lines of solutions, each of which constitutes a complete system, as well as components (such as smart cards and readers) that it sells to original equipment manufacturers (OEM), for incorporation into their own products. OTI’s three vertical markets are Payment Solutions, Petroleum Systems and SmartID Solutions. In June 2008, the Company, through its subsidiary PARX Ltd., acquired PARX France (formerly ID Parking).

Transistor Devices, Inc. (TDI) is plugged in to the power needs of the computer industry. Founded in 1960, the company makes high-power, fault-tolerant, uninterruptible electronic power supplies and systems designed to prevent power loss in transportation equipment and computer data storage and telecommunications systems. Customers include companies in the aerospace, computer/networking, industrial, medical, military, and telecommunications industries. TDI operates mainly in the US, but it also has facilities in China, Ireland, and Mexico. Richard Blake, the company's founder, chairman, and CTO, controls TDI; the rest of the company is owned by officers and employees.

Sparton Corporation was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois. Sparton Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, offers electronic manufacturing services worldwide. The company provides design and electronic manufacturing services, which include a range of engineering, pre-manufacturing, and post-manufacturing services on a contract basis. Its products and services include device manufacturing products for original equipment manufacturers, microprocessor-based systems, transducers, printed circuit boards and assemblies, sensors, and electromechanical devices; and engineering services relating to these product sales. In addition, the company designs and manufactures sonobuoys, an anti-submarine warfare device, used by the U.S. Navy and other free-world countries. It serves the government, medical/scientific, instrumentation, aerospace, and other industries.

President Oscar Torres, Jr., son of the company founder, owns Torres Electrical Supply, which was founded in 1971. Oscar Torres Sr. died in 1992; his son has been working at the company since 1976. Torres Electrical has two locations on the Atlantic coast of Florida. Supply and demand is what Torres Electrical Supply is all about. Torres Electrical Supply Company, Inc. distributes electrical supplies and industrial products made by manufacturers such as Cooper Bussmann, Gardner Bender, Littelfuse, OSRAM SYLVANIA, Thomas & Betts, and Yuasa. Customers include contractors, industry, and consumers.

NGK produces insulators and other equipment for power transmission lines and substations. The company makes NAS (sodium sulfur) battery systems for electrical power storage. Its ceramics unit makes ceramic components (such as honeycomb substrates for catalytic converters and ceramic membrane filters) used in automotive and industrial process applications. NGK also makes actuators for printer heads, beryllium copper alloy components, and ceramic products used in making semiconductors.

China Resources Microelectronics Limited was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Wuxi, China. China Resources Microelectronics Limited is a subsidiary of China Resources (Holdings) Company Limited. China Resources Microelectronics Limited, an investment holding company, engages in business investment, development, and operation management in high-tech microelectronics in Mainland China, Asia, the United States, and Europe. It offers discrete devices and analog integrated circuits (ICs). The company also provides open foundry, IC design, IC testing, and packaging services, as well as discrete device manufacturing services. In addition, it offers technical platforms, such as CMOS, BiCMOS, DMOS, BCD, Bipolar, MIXED-MODE, HVCMOS, MG, NVMEE/OTP, DMOS, and MEMS; discrete device wafers and finished products for energy saving lightings, home appliances, industrial control devices, and personal computers; and audio/video processing IC, MCU, mixed-signal IC, power management IC, and power IC. Further, the company provides turkey services, such as wafer testing, ultra-thin back grinding, packaging, products testing, evaluation, and reel packaging; and power transistor chips. China Resources Microelectronics Limited was formerly known as CSMC Technologies Corporation and changed its name to China Resources Microelectronics Limited in March 2008.

Bourns shows great potential in potentiometers, which are included in a broad range of electronic components the company provides, such as power protection devices, sensors, resistors, switches, encoders, panel controls, dials, and chip resistor arrays. The company offers new automotive technologies, which enhance their sensors, component miniaturization (microelectronic modules), and reference designs (product design kits). The company serves the automotive, consumer electronics, medical, test and measurement, office machines, personal and mobile computing, and telecommunications markets.

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