Finmek provides contract electronics design and manufacturing services offering products ranging from printed circuit board assemblies, peripherals, and networking equipment to complete systems for the communications, industrial, medical, and multimedia markets. Finmek also provides integration, logistics, maintenance, and testing services. Customers include Alcatel, Ericsson, and Telecom Italia. The troubled company was declared insolvent in 2004, and later announced plans to close some plants.

Chi Mei company is one of the world's largest makers of TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display) flat-panel displays. TFT-LCD panels -- small, lightweight, low-power, and high-resolution -- are used in notebook, desktop monitor, and TV applications. CMO also makes color filters, and is developing OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. The company was launched in 1998, but really took off when it purchased a TFT-LCD fab (and licensed the related intellectual property) from IBM in 2001. Exports, primarily to Asia, make up about two-thirds of CMO's sales.

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.

Trina Solar Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in Changzhou, the People's Republic of China. Trina Solar Limited is an integrated solar-power products manufacturer based in China. The Company produce monocrystalline photovoltaic (PV) modules ranging from 165 watts to 230 watts in power output and multicrystalline PV modules ranging from 210 watts to 230 watts in power output. The PV modules are built to general specifications, as well as to the customers’ and end-users’ specifications. The Company sell and market the products globally, including in a number of European countries, such as Germany, Spain and Italy. The Company sell the products to distributors, wholesalers and PV system integrators, including Enipower Spa, Gestamp Solar S.L. and IBC Solar AG. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had an annual module manufacturing capacity of approximately 350 megawatts.

Beckman Coulter, Inc. provides biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies for clinical laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures chemistry systems, such as routine chemistry systems that use electrochemical detection, chemical reactions with patient samples to detect and quantify substances of diagnostic interest in blood, urine, and other body fluids; and point of care testing products comprising rapid diagnostic test kits and hematology instruments that give physicians information to manage patients. It also provides immunoassay systems performing tests that assess thyroid function, screen and monitor for cancer and cardiac risk, provide information in fertility and reproductive testing, and monitor factors associated with anemia, blood viruses, and infectious disease; and molecular diagnostics that includes testing for infectious diseases, genetic diseases, and disorders, human cancers, and pharmacogenics. Beckman Coulter offers cellular systems for clinicians, such as hematology systems to study formed elements in blood, such as red and white blood cells and platelets; coagulation systems offering information to diagnose bleeding and clotting disorders and to monitor anticoagulant therapy; and flow cytometry systems used in applications in basic research, clinical research, and drug discovery. The company's life science products and services comprise life sciences automation products, centrifugation, and life science tools. It sells its products through sales organizations and independent distributors to hospitals, physician's offices, reference laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, medical schools, and research institutions. The company was formerly known as Beckman Instruments, Inc. and changed its name to Beckman Coulter, Inc. in April 1998 as of result of acquisition of Coulter Corporation. Beckman Coulter was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Brea, California.

GCL Solar Energy Technology Holdings researches, develops, produces, and sells polysilicon, which is the fundamental raw material used to produce semiconductors and photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. Polysilicon is manufactured at GCL's production facility in the Jiangsu province of China. Chairman Zhu Gongshan is the company's controlling stockholder. Founded in 2006, GCL Solar Energy Technology filed to go public in 2008 but withdrew its registration statement a year later.

Avnet Abacus represents a new force in European distribution. Focused on interconnect, passive, emech, power supply and battery products, Avnet Abacus has a clear vision of providing exceptional levels of technical support via a highly-focused team of product specialists ensuring that we provide the highest levels of product support across our industry-leading linecard of suppliers and products.Avnet Abacus unifies the strengths of Avnet Time and the interconnect, passive, emech and battery business of Abacus Group, acquired by Avnet in January 2009. We are a pan-European distributor with a strong local focus providing all the financial service, logistical and fulfilment benefits that you would expect from a global distributor with the personal service, local presence and product choice of a local distributor.Abacus Group key strength is Abacus Group product to customer approach. Offering a vast selection of products from 47 pan-European suppliers, complemented by a further range of strong multi-regional and local suppliers, via 45 offices in 19 countries, Avnet Abacus provides a product choice that is second to none. Our expanded linecard and extended technology focus is supported by a highly focussed, pan-European team, including over 50 product specialists. These product specialists work with the customer at the system level, integrating the components, assemblies and cables that we supply into a solution that meets and exceeds the design brief. Further support is offered to engineers via online product selection tools, design references and sample requests.

Panduit is a world-class developer and provider of leading-edge solutions that help customers optimize the physical infrastructure through simplification, agility, and operational efficiency. Panduit’s Unified Physical InfrastructureSM (UPI) based solutions give enterprises the capabilities to connect, manage and automate communications, computing, power, control and security systems for a smarter, unified business foundation. Strong relationships with technology leaders complemented with its global staff and unmatched service and support, make Panduit a valuable and trusted partner.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks) offers diverse standard and custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and cellular handset applications. The Company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure radio frequency (RF) subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics. It has aligned the product portfolio around two markets: cellular handsets and analog semiconductors. The handset portfolio includes customized power amplifiers and front-end solutions, from entry level to multimedia platforms and smart phones. Its primary handset customers include LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion and HTC.

Bay Microsystems, Inc. designs and develops network solutions that include network architectures, systems, software, and integrated circuits. The company offers ABEx, a network appliance for optical transport and packet switched networks including synchronous optical networking and synchronous digital hierarchy, Ethernet, Internet protocol and multiprotocol label switching, pseudowires, ATM, and InfiniBand. It also designs and develops network processors that include Chesapeake, a single-chip programmable network processor and traffic manager; Montego, a single-chip programmable Internetworking processor; and Biscayne, a programmable classification processor with policing. Additionally, the company offers Lighthouse Tool Suite, a hardware and software development platform for designing network processor based networking equipment and BayPort, a demonstration and evaluation platform for company’s network processors. Bay Microsystems was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, California with an additional office in Germantown, Maryland.

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