Toshiba Semiconductor (TSW) is the microchip arm of electronics titan Toshiba Corporation. Toshiba makes many kinds of discrete devices and integrated circuits (ICs), including application-specific standard products (ASSPs), diodes, linear devices, logic chips, microcontrollers, sensors, and transistors. Toshiba's semiconductor operations also make optical components, as well as many kinds of memory chips, including DRAMs, static RAMs (SRAMs), flash memory devices, and electrically erasable programmable read-only memories (EEPROMs). The company works cooperatively with other chip makers and manufacturers of consumer electronics to advance the functionality of its products.

Hammond Power Solutions Inc. (HPS) was established in 1917 and has continued to grow as the North American stand-alone leader for the design and manufacture of high quality custom electrical dry-type transformers and related engineered magnetic devices. The company is also a significant producer of standard products that are built to industry wide specifications. HPS excels at designing products that have very specific size and power constraints for many demanding applications. Having an extensive engineering resource, HPS offers the broadest range of electrical products in the industry and as a result, the company has grown in many diverse markets and provides services to many global leaders.

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. provides flash memory products, LCD panels, and microprocessors. It offers DF3S6.8ECT protection diode that provides digital and mobile equipment, such as cell phones, PDAs, notebook PCs, digital cameras, and GPS devices with electromagnetic interference and electrostatic discharge protection from electrostatic discharge energy that is introduced from I/O ports and travels through the connectors onto the system boards; and microcontroller, which is designed for use in AC motor applications, such as washing machines, refrigerators, and air conditioners. The company is based in Irvine, California with additional offices in Richardson, El Paso, and Austin, Texas; Bloomington, Minnesota; Buffalo Grove, Illinois; Duluth, Georgia; Marlborough, Massachusetts; Parsippany, New Jersey; Raleigh, North Carolina; Wixom, Minnesota; and San Diego and San Jose, California. Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Toshiba America, Inc.

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.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Baoding, the People's Republic of China. Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (Yingli Green Energy) is a vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturer in China. The Company designs, manufactures and sells PV modules and designs, assembles, sells and install PV systems. As of December 31, 2008, the Company’s annual production capacity was 400 megawatts for each of polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules. Yingli Green Energy’s end-products include PV modules and PV systems in different sizes and power outputs. It sells PV modules under its own brand names, Yingli and Yingli Solar, to PV system integrators and distributors located in various markets worldwide, including Spain, Germany, the United States and China. In January 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Cyber Power Group Limited, which, through its principal operating subsidiary in China, Fine Silicon Co., Ltd.

PSi Technologies Holdings makes packages that hold power semiconductors in the silicon equivalent of a full nelson. The company provides packaging and assembly services to top chip makers, such as Infineon (about 49% of sales), ON Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics (22%), and Texas Instruments. PSi Technologies takes customers' semiconductors and embeds them into protective casings in preparation for use; it specializes in working with power management semiconductors, such as field-effect transistors and voltage regulators -- devices that are built to handle high power levels and that require heavy-duty packaging techniques. Customers in Europe account for about three-quarters of sales.

Vishay PM Group wants to be a prime mover in onboard weighing equipment. Through several subsidiaries, the company makes scales and software used in the construction, cargo haulage, and waste management industries. The scales are carried on board heavy trucks and other hauling vehicles to measure weight and assign identifying numbers to cargo items. (The company makes similar systems used on cranes.) PM software then hooks up with GPS equipment to provide route and invoicing management. In 2007 Vishay Intertechnology acquired the company for about £22 million in cash, while PM's electrical contracting business, PWE, was sold to former CEO Geoff Mountain for around £9 million.

Digi-Key company distributes electronic components to businesses and consumers mainly in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Digi-Key uses an entirely in-house sales force and does business by means of telemarketing and a catalog featuring more than 300,000 products from 400-plus manufacturers, such as 3M, Freescale, and Texas Instruments. Its products, ranging from AC line cords to zinc-oxide non-linear resistors, also are available through a downloadable catalog featured on the company's Web site

Gamesa Corporacion is one of the top manufacturers of wind turbines in the world. It also operates wind farms. Gamesa has installed about 16,000 MW of wind turbines in 20 countries around the globe. The company has divested its solar power product line, but remains a leading vendor in renewable energy technology. It touts a concept it calls "Energyculture" in promoting sustainable energy sources. Gamesa gets more about 60% of its sales in Europe, while sales in the US (around 25%) are growing rapidly.

Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Qidong, the People's Republic of China. Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer of silicon ingots, photovoltaic (PV) cells and PV modules in China. The Company manufactures a variety of silicon ingots, PV cells and PV modules. The Company also provides PV cell processing services and PV module processing services. It sells PV cells and PV modules both directly to system integrators and through third-party distributors. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company sold its products to over 40 customers, in Germany, Spain and Italy, as well as several other European countries. The Company conduct its business in China through its operating subsidiary, Linyang China. In February 2008, the Company established Solarfun Power Deutschland GmbH. On August 1, 2008, the Company acquired the remaining 48% equity interest in Yangguang Solar.

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