MRL Industries, Inc. established in 1979, was acquired in 1998 by Sandvik. MRL Industries, Inc. company's products include heating elements, furnace systems, insulation materials, gas systems, and cantilever loading systems. It also provides support services, including installation and repair. Thermal processing is used in semiconductor manufacturing for annealing, deposition, oxidation, and silicide formation. The Swedish manufacturer bought the company a few months after Selas Corporation of America (now IntriCon) agreed to acquire MRL for nearly $17 million in stock, then backed out of the deal.

Elma Electronic is a global company that designs and manufactures solutions in electronics packaging. The company provides standard to fully customized components such as modular enclosures, cabinets and backplanes up to complete system integration. Elma also manufactures precision rotary switches. The company offers a fast, flexible response to customer needs and extensive practical knowledge in tailoring solutions to specific applications.Elma’s modular approach allows fast, cost-effective, and proven performance for customized design modifications to standard platforms. The base products are centered around 19” and 23” Eurocard specification, with creative design innovations for VME/ VME64x, CompactPCI/2.16, VXS/VPX, VXI/PXI, AdvancedTCA/MicroTCA and other architectures. The company’s design expertise allows fast implementation of full custom designs for backplanes, sub-racks, enclosures and cabinets, as well as full system integration.

BCD Semiconductor Manufacturing Limited (BCD Semi) is a leading analog integrated device manufacturer, or IDM, based in Greater China, specializing in the design, manufacture and sale of power management integrated circuits, or ICs. The company's broad portfolio of power management ICs primarily targets rapidly growing, high volume markets such as mobile phones, portable media players, LCD televisions and monitors, personal computers, adapters and chargers and other electronics products. As an IDM, BCD Semi integrates product design and process technology to optimize product performance and cost. The company offers system-level solutions with the quality, performance and reliability required by customers. Greater China-based operations provide proximity to the rapidly growing electronics industry in Asia, enabling to align product development effort with customers and market trends and to provide timely and effective technical support. The company currently employs more than 1,000 full-time staff, including more than 250 in design and engineering. The BCD Semi 6" fab has a clean-room floor area of over 3556 square meters for wafer processing. BCD Semi provides system customers with superior products that are developed with analog IC design and R&D, and manufactured with advanced process technologies such as Bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS and BCDMOS, etc. The company has sales offices in Shenzhen, Taiwan and USA and has established distribution channels world-wide. The BCD Headquarters has relocated to Shanghai Zizhu Science-based Industrial Park; next to Intel and Microsoft. BCD Semi strives to become a world leading analog/mixed-signal IC solution provider. The company is dedicated to achieving the goal of providing customers in the global market with most reliable products of the highest quality/price ratio.

Founded in 1946, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. is one of the world's largest manufacturers of integrated circuit (IC) leadframes, ball grid arrays, and other packaging types for semiconductors. As cell phones, portable game players, and other electronic products continue to shrink in size, the packaging of the chips powering the product becomes a crucial aspect of design. Shinko has helped chip makers by steadily shrinking the sizes of its packages, and by coming up with new packaging types such as flip-chips. Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. also provides IC packaging services on a contract basis. Fujitsu owns half of Shinko Electric Industries.

II-VI Incorporated develops, manufactures, and markets materials and derivative precision components and products for precision use in industrial, medical, military, and aerospace applications worldwide. It offers a line of precision infrared optical components, such as lenses, output couplers, windows, and mirrors for use in CO2 lasers; and laser-related products for solid-state lasers and precision optical elements used to focus and direct laser beams onto target work surfaces. The company also provides military infrared optical products and assemblies, including optics for targeting and navigation systems; Selenium and tellurium metals and chemicals that are used as additive materials for metallurgical, glass and animal feed applications, and are used for photovoltaic, electronic, and other industrial applications; thermo-electric coolers, thermo-electric systems, power generation modules, and power generation systems, which provide temperature control; and silicon carbide substrates used in solid-state lighting, wireless infrastructure, radio frequency electronics, and power switching industries. II-VI Incorporated sells its products to original equipment manufactures, system integrators, laser end users, and military and aerospace customers through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors and agents. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania.

Stirling Biopower, Inc. company was founded in 1979 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As of May 2007, Stirling Biopower, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Farmer Automatic Josef Kühlmann GmbH & Co. KG. Stirling Biopower, Inc. designs, tests, and manufactures engine powered electrical generators. It offers commercial/industrial, prime mover, and electrical generators for renewable energy and distributed generation applications. The company offers its products through distributors. Stirling Biopower, Inc. was formerly known as STM Power, Inc. and changed its name to Stirling Biopower, Inc. in July 2007.

Briton EMS Ltd company offers a range of contract electronics manufacturing services. These services range from purchasing and logistics to printed circuit board (PCB) and full product assembly. Vendors of various types of electronic gear outsource these chores to Briton EMS to cut costs and increase efficiency. The company's engineering and design department specializes in designing hardware and software products for the instrumentation industry.

SunPower Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of solar electric power technologies. The company operates in two segments, Components and Systems. The Components segment sells solar power products, including solar cells, solar panels, and inverters, which convert sunlight to electricity for the utility networks serving installers and resellers for use in residential and commercial applications. It also sells products for use in multi-megawatt solar power plant applications. The Systems segment offers power systems and system technologies, which include development, engineering, and procurement of permits and equipment, as well as construction management, access to financing, monitoring, and maintenance services. This segment serves commercial and governmental entities, investors, utilities, production home builders, and home owners. It has solar power system projects in various countries, including Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. This segment also sells distributed rooftop and ground-mounted solar power systems, and central-station power plants. SunPower Corporation offers its products and services through a network of dealers primarily in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. SunPower Corporation (NasdaqGS: SPWR.A) operates independently of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as of September 22, 2008.

Jetion Holdings company manufactures solar cells and modules -- parts used in solar power systems that convert sunlight into electricity. Its products are used by the power generation, defense, maritime, and transportation industries. With production facilities in China, Jetion is targeting its own fast-growing domestic solar power market, as well as export markets in Europe and North America, where demand is strong as solar applications become more sophisticated. Germany represents its largest customer base, accounting for more than half of the company's revenues. Bayerische Solar and Mage Solar are among Jetion's key customers.

Smiths designs sensors to identify biological and chemical agents, narcotics, weapons, and other illegal contraband, for use in banks, prisons, and industrial facilities, as well as in military, first response, transportation, and homeland security applications. Some of its detection and screening technologies utilize spectroscopy (gamma ray, ion mobility, Raman, and infra-red). Smiths company makes X-ray inspection units to scan mail, luggage, and freight, as well as to detect explosives. Smiths company manufactures metal detectors and makes systems for scanning trucks and freight containers. It is one of five subsidiaries of its parent company Smiths Group Plc.

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