Standard Electric and its affiliates distribute electrical and electronic products and supplies to customers through about 30 locations in Michigan. Standard Electric Company was founded in 1929 by Samuel Cohen and brothers Morris and Max Blumberg. The Blumberg brothers earlier established another Michigan-based electrical distributor, Madison Electric, an affiliate of Standard Electric with 10 Michigan locations. Another affiliated firm, U.P. Electric/Wittock Supply Co., is a distributor of electrical and mechanical products with four locations on the upper Michigan peninsula. Standard Electric Company is owned by its directors and their families.

Phoenix Solar Initiative of the Association of Energy Consumers, a German consumer initiative to find inexpensive solar power for residential water heating. Phoenix Solar, formerly Ph?nix SonnenStrom, became as a commercial enterprise in 1999. It covers both ends of the solar energy spectrum, selling rooftop systems to consumers while the branch in Ulm designs and constructs large solar power plants. Phoenix has subsidiaries in Spain, Italy, and Singapore where it builds solar power plants, usually in a joint venture with a local partner and financing firm KG Allgemeine Leasing.

Ball Semiconductor has developed technology for fabricating chips on spheres of silicon, rather than the conventional flat silicon wafers. Founded in 1996, Ball Semiconductor Inc. also designs, makes, and sells photomaskless exposure systems. Ball Semiconductor's products are used in lithography systems, optical research, fluorescent excitation processes, high-density printed circuit boards, color filters for LCD/thin-film transistor/plasma display panels, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturing. Ball Semiconductor company is currently focusing on developing surface-acoustic wave (SAW) sensors.

Torotel, Inc. company was founded in 1956 and is based in Olathe, Kansas. Torotel, Inc. (Torotel) conducts business through two wholly owned subsidiaries, Torotel Products, Inc. (Torotel Products) and Electronika, Inc. (Electronika). Torotel Products specializes in the custom design and manufacture of a variety of precision magnetic components, consisting of transformers, inductors, reactors, chokes and toroidal coils. These components modify and control electrical voltages and currents in electronic devices. Torotel Products sells these magnetic components to original equipment manufacturers, which use them in products, such as aircraft navigational equipment, digital control devices, voice and data secure communications, medical equipment, telephone and avionics equipment, and conventional missile guidance systems. Electronika is a marketing and licensing company selling ballast transformers to the airline industry. These transformers activate and control the lights in airplane cockpits and passenger compartments.

Teledyne Monitor Labs, Inc. company supplies continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) products used by industries worldwide. Its instrumentation, systems, and software detect, measure, and report air quality and pollution from industrial stack emissions. Monitor and software brands, including LightHawk, RegPerfect, and sensor-e, use source and ambient measurement processes to analyze such gases as SO2, NOX, CO, CO2, and O2. The company operates facilities in Colorado and Pennsylvania. In 2002 Teledyne Technologies acquired Monitor Labs from Spirent (now Spirent Communications). The company is part of Teledyne's largest business segment, Electronics and Communications.

SpectraSensors, Inc. manufactures and supplies precision optical laser-based gas analyzers for the energy and petrochemical industries. Its products include air monitoring, moisture, dew point, hydrogen sulfide, H2S, dual channel, and atmospheric and portable gas analyzers for natural gas pipelines and processors, petrochemical refineries, and chemical companies. The company’s solutions measure and monitor gas and petrochemical concentrations in a variety of applications, such as environmental, energy, water, and chemical process monitoring. Its gas analyzers measure moisture, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, methane, ammonia, and ethylene oxide. The company also provides communication software systems, such as SCADA2000 for data acquisition, control, and monitoring of custody transfer metering; and CMC, a communications management center for automated and on-demand polling of field monitoring devices. SpectraSensors offers its products through an international distribution network and installation base in North America, Europe, the Pacific Rim, Australia, and Asia. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas with engineering, design, and manufacturing operations in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Forge Europa is LEaDing the way in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The company makes high-performance LEDs, including red, green, blue, and white LED lamps, backlights, and custom subassemblies. Forge Europa offers various types of displays, including seven-segment models (the kind that display numerals on digital alarm clocks). The company, which was founded in 1993 by managing directing Peter Barton, is the industrial partner in a research project with the University of Cambridge focused on developing improved blue and white LEDs. With a product catalogue of more than 2000 LED devices, the company serves customers from all over the world.

Micro Power Electronics (MPE) makes batteries and battery systems used in defibrillators and other hospital equipment, as well as chargers, docking stations, and external and internal power adaptors. While its products are also used in more pedestrian applications like laptop computers and bar code scanners, MPE's batteries are in 90% of all external defibrillators in the US. The company also makes ruggedized batteries and chargers used by the military. Its services include design, manufacturing, testing, system integration, and training.

Powerstax specialises in the design, manufacture and marketing of high power density, high efficiency AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies including DC-DC Converters, Configurable, Modular Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS), plus AC Rectifiers and Bulk Power Supply Units (PSU). In addition Powerstax provides Value Added and complete Custom Power Solutions.Powerstax provides standard and custom AC & DC power solutions for centralised and distributed power (DPA) in a broad range of applications including hot swap front end AC-DC bulk power, DC-DC converter bricks and programmable, modular rack mounted Power Supplies, for use in Telecoms, Datacoms, IT, Industrial, Test & Control, Transportation, Avionic, Defence, Medical and all commercial markets.

MagnaChip Semiconductor was formed to acquire the non-memory operations of Hynix Semiconductor, one of the world's largest producers of memory devices. MagnaChip primarily offers flat-panel display drivers. The company also does a large business in silicon foundry (contract semiconductor manufacturing) services. Two Citigroup units, joined by Francisco Partners, bought the operations from debt-plagued Hynix and established MagnaChip as a freestanding company. Companies of the LG Group, primarily LG Display, are MagnaChip's biggest customers.

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