Am-Mex Products helps companies set up maquiladora operations in the McAllen, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico, border region. The maquiladora program allows US firms and other foreign companies to import raw materials into Mexico duty-free for assembly there by lower-wage Mexican workers. The program also offers faster startup, lower shipping costs, and central distribution. The company's services include contract manufacturing, engineering factory management, US warehousing and distribution, cross-border trucking, training, and other administrative services required for international trade. Am-Mex has been in business since 1990 and has 10 Mexican manufacturing facilities, in addition to its US operation.

FEI Company, together with its subsidiaries, supplies instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis, and prototyping that enable research, development, and manufacturing in industrial, academic, and research institutional applications. Its products include focused ion beam systems, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and DualBeam systems. The company's products facilitate laboratories to enhance new product development and yields by enabling 3D wafer metrology, defect analysis, root cause failure analysis, and circuit edit for modifying device structures; provide data storage market with thin film head processing and root cause failure analysis services; enable researchers and manufacturers to develop, analyze, and produce products through its atomic-level resolution images; and create 3D reconstructions of complex biological structures, through its ultra-high resolution imaging in the life sciences market. The company serves universities and research institutes engaged in biotech and life sciences applications; pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies and hospitals; semiconductor, data storage, and related industries, such as printers and microelectromechanical systems; and a range of industrial customers, including automobiles, aerospace, metals, mining, and petrochemicals. FEI Company sells its products through direct sales personnel, as well as through independent agents, distributors, and representatives in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Established in 1993, ZBOE has grown into one of the largest VFD manufacturers in China, and sells its products globally. ZBOE is following the path of its patron BOE Technology Group, it just operates on a smaller scale. Zhejiang BOE Display Technology (ZBOE) provides research and development as well as manufacturing of small size displays, specializing in Vacuum Fluorescent Displays (VFDs). An affiliate of BOE Technology Group, the company also manufactures VFC cover glass and LED (light emitting diode) displays, as well as control boards and modules used in household appliances, instruments, car displays, and industrial products.

Philips Lumileds Lighting Company is the world's leading manufacturer of high-power LEDs and a pioneer in the use of solid-state lighting solutions for everyday purposes including automotive lighting, computer displays, LCD televisions, signage and signaling and general lighting. The company's patented LUXEON® Power Light Sources are the first to combine the brightness of conventional lighting with the small footprint, long life and other advantages of LEDs. The company also supplies core LED material and LED packaging, manufacturing billions of LEDs annually, and ranks as the producer of the world's brightest red, amber, blue, green and white LEDs.Philips Lumileds' LUXEON® technology enables LEDs to match the brightness of conventional light sources and for the first time, makes it possible to replace incandescent, halogen and fluorescent bulbs in many products with smaller, longer-lasting and more energy efficient LEDs.LUXEON® gives lighting designers the ability to create a new breed of lighting fixtures that dedicate much less space to the light source, eliminate the need to replace bulbs, and offers precise beam control.LUXEON® also lowers the cost of illuminating traffic signals; produces rich life-like color for LCD monitors and notebook computer screens; supplies instant illumination and therefore extra safety for vehicle brake lights; and provides significant benefits for many other applications.

Ovonyx was founded in 1999 by Tyler Lowrey and Ward Parkinson. Ovonyx has developed designs for a new type of technology used in non-volatile memory chips. The technology is known as Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM), or phase-change memory (PCM), and it is meant to supplant flash memory devices in consumer electronics. The company has licensing and development agreements with several chip makers, including BAE Systems, Elpida Memory, Hynix Semiconductor, Nanochip, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics. Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), which originally developed the memory technology, owns about 40% of Ovonyx. CEO Lowrey, Intel, and other investors own the rest of the company.

SIONEX Corporation company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. Sionex Corporation is a former subsidiary of The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. Sionex Corporation develops and sells sensor hardware and software products for threat detection, medical diagnostics, process control, and monitoring markets. The company provides chemical and biological sensor chips and subsystems based on microDMx detection technology. It provides microAnalyzer, an integrated system that detects, identifies, and measures minute quantities of chemicals in air and vaporized liquids at the point of collection; sensor and board kits, which are designed to be integrated by customers who possess engineering, design, and computer engineering resources; and mass spectrometry pre-filters that have applications in homeland security and defense. The company also provides The Sionex Value Added Component SVAC that contains detector and electronic boards, as well as sample pumps, flow controllers, and operational software; and differential mobility spectroscopy and ion mobility spectroscopy detectors that enable identifying and confirming compounds in the presence of interferences and complex matrices in seconds. In addition, it provides customized software development services, including Expert software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support application development, production, diagnostics/troubleshooting, and data capture; and Total Ion Flow software, which is designed as a tool to facilitate and support ionization optimization projects, radioactive, and non-radioactive. Further, the company provides evaluation systems, which allow basic testing and discovery of technology for various applications. It offers its solutions for various commercial applications, including monitoring of industrial and petrochemical compounds, chemical and biological warfare agents, explosives, and narcotics, as well as for automobile engines and consumer products.

Thermaco Limited company sells electronic and electrical components, such as electrodes, cooling fans, gas taps, heating elements, ignition cables, oven fans, power cords, switches, and timers. Thermaco acts as an exclusive sales agent in the UK for manufacturers including Aria, Coupatan, Emmevi, Italquartz, Faringosi, Sunonwealth, and Tempomatic. Thermaco also sells on a non-exclusive basis for other manufacturers. Thermaco company, which was founded in 1978 and went public in 1980, was taken private by management in 2000.

Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Company, Ltd. manufactures semiconductors in Mainland China. It offers IC foundry services. It provides embedded non-volatile memory platforms in various applications, such as microprocessors, communications, consumer products, and smart cards, as well as offers design support, chip manufacturing, and testing services. The company also offers optional capacitors, high resistance poly resistors, and native transistors for designs. In addition, it provides mixed-signal analog CMOS platform that enables integration of less demanding RF circuit blocks with multi-million gate digital CMOS logic functions for wireless, multimedia, and PC products applications. Further, the company offers nvSOC prototype platform, which helps customers to create SOC and ASIC prototype, as well as used in the development of smartcard, MCU, USB Key, and other related products. Furthermore, it provides technology support and services, including various IP, foundry mainstream process design, layout, wafer sort, parametric test, reliability test, and failure analysis, as well as develops various after processes, including embedded non-volatile memories, HVCMOS, and RFCMOS. The company focuses on embedded NVM, LCD driver, analog/power management, RF technology field, and customer electronics.

Guide Technology makes time interval analyzer (TIA) instruments used to test semiconductor chips as they are being produced. Customers include Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, ChipMOS, Siliconware Precision Industries, STATS ChipPAC, Unisem, and VIKO Test Lab. The company works cooperatively with the leading vendors of automated test equipment for semiconductors, including Advantest, Credence Systems, LTX, and Teradyne. Guide Technology was founded in 1988. In mid-2008 the company was acquired by GuideTech Inc., a company headed by Ron Sigura, one of the original founders of Guide Technology.

Elliott Electric Supply has become a regional leader in the electrical distribution and industrial automation industry. In June 2008, Elliott Electric Supply was ranked 25th in Electrical Wholesaling magazine's listing of the 200 largest distributors in the United States (based on Sales in 2007). Elliott Electric Supply has been committed to growth by providing the most knowledgeable sales staff in the industry, strategic partnerships with customers and manufacturers, and constant improvement in services and operations.

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