Crest Operations, part of Crest Industries, distributes and installs electrical substations and transmission products for electric power generation and utility customers worldwide, through its DIS-TRAN and Beta Engineering subsidiaries. Other subsidiaries grow pine and hardwood trees in Louisiana and Texas (Crest Natural Resources), and make wooden utility poles and cross arms. Crest's Mid-State Supply Company subsidiary is a Louisiana-based distributor of electrical products that has showrooms for appliances and lighting.

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.

Nippon company, which also does business as Avio, designs and manufactures electronic components and equipment for use in aviation, data communications, and medicine. The company's products include digital projectors, infrared thermographs, precision machining systems, printed circuit boards, software, and telecom equipment. Subsidiaries include Yamanashi Avionics, Avionics Fukushima, NEC San-ei Instruments, and Avio Sales.

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.

BP Solar International displays a certain star power as it seeks to transform the sun's energy into electricity. A subsidiary of UK oil giant BP, the company designs, manufactures, supplies, and installs photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules that provide power for homes, remote villages and industrial facilities, commercial businesses, and local government. Its plants are in the US, India, and China. BP Solar also offers an array of services, from cost estimation to logistic management, remote monitoring, and training. Customers include Ericsson, FedEx Freight, NEC, and Telstra.

Herley Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, and manufacture of microwave technology solutions for the defense, aerospace, and medical industries worldwide. Its products include telemetry systems, command and control systems, transponders, flight termination receivers, HF communications and IFF interrogators, high power amplifiers, microwave integrated circuits, high/low power integrated assembly, solid state receiver protectors, digitally tuned oscillators, and simulation equipment, as well as scientific products and medical products, such as single modules and rack mounted amplifiers. The company's products are embedded in range of radars, flight instrumentation, weapons sensors, electronic warfare systems, and guidance systems. Herley Industries, Inc. sells its products to defense prime contractors, original equipment manufacturers, research centers, and universities in commercial markets, as well as to the United States government. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), but don't blame the company if your train was running late this morning. B&W designs, supplies, and services power generation systems and equipment, from boilers to nuclear steam generators. The company provides about 25% of the world's boiler-powered electricity, and it has made nearly half of the process recovery boilers used in paper mills in the US. The boiler maker's products can be found in more than 800 utilities in 90-plus countries. B&W also owns specialty nuclear fuels company Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS), which has a production plant in Tennessee. B&W owner, McDermott International looks to spinoff B&W in 2010.

President and CEO John Westerbeke Jr. owns Westerbeke Corporation, which was founded by his father in 1937. Westerbeke makes waves with its line of marine engines and generators. Many of the company's engines are used for auxiliary power for sailboats; some models are used as the primary power source for other craft. Westerbeke's marine generators are used to power lights, navigational gear, and other equipment on pleasure and commercial vessels. The company also makes industrial generators for use on land. Most Westerbeke engines and generators are diesel-powered, but the company also makes gasoline-powered models. Westerbeke sells products worldwide through distributors and dealers.

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.

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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