Duchossois Industries company, pronounced "deshy-swa," focuses its investment interests in the consumer products, technology and services sectors. The Chamberlain Group, a subsidiary, is the world's top maker of residential and commercial door openers and a leading maker of access control products. AMX Corporation performs systems integration, while other companies offer AV equipment, Internet-based access control, and lighting products. DII also owns an early-stage IT venture capital fund and holds a minority stake in horse racetrack Churchill Downs.

SGL CARBON company, one of the world's largest makers of graphite and carbon products, makes electrodes used to melt steel scrap. SGL CARBON also manufactures mechanical carbons and electrical contacts, along with graphite foils, carbon fibers, expanded graphite and fabrics, composites, carbon-ceramic brake discs, and fuel cell components. Customers range from companies in the aerospace and automobile industries to chemical and energy companies.

In 1987 president and CEO Ed Swartz founded Static Control Components, Inc., which is owned and operated by his family. Static Control Components, Inc. company that made a name for itself by selling anti-static products has made an even greater impression by selling parts for rebuilt toner cartridges. Its Imaging Division, which sells parts to recycle used printer cartridges, has captured more than half of the world market. SCC also makes electrical testing tools. In 2006 Static Control Components sold its SCC Products affiliate to 3M.

Varitronix International Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and related products worldwide. The company’s products range from automotive and industrial displays to consumer grade mobile phone displays. EUROPE The company’s business in Europe focuses on automotive and industrial display applications. Automotive Display Business: Various automobile brands in Europe use the company’s displays. Industrial Display Business: The company owns a 20% stake in Data Modul Aktiengesellschaft, a major distributor in Europe. Data Modul’s key customers come from the industrial and white goods sector and involve applications. HONG KONG AND MAINLAND CHINA The business in Mainland China and Hong Kong focuses on mobile handsets and consumer products. Handset Display Business: The company provides displays in larger panel size and higher resolution, aiming to cater for this diversification in handset designs. Consumer Electronics Display Business: In addition to the applications for MP3/MP4 and digital photo frames, the company explores the electronic learning products market where products, such as intelligent recorders and electronic dictionaries are big sellers. Automotive & Industrial Display Business: The automotive display business mainly serves the Chinese branches of European automakers. The company would invest in developing the industrial business in China. REST OF ASIA The company’s business in Asia excluding Mainland China and Hong Kong (Rest of Asia), mainly serves the automotive sector and certain consumer electronics customers. Automotive Displays: The company is a supplier for South Korean automakers. Consumer Electronics Display Business: In the Rest of Asia, orders for consumer electronic LCDs come from multimedia product manufacturers, such as those making MP3 and MP4 players, and electronic dictionaries. NORTH AMERICA In 2008 the Group developed business for medical applications. Industrial Display Business: The company has a range of industrial applications, including metering and navigation, which together consists of a stable volume business. Medical Display Business: The company developed applications for metering equipment used by medical staff, as well as general products, such as blood glucose meters used by the public.

Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. engages in the engineering, design, and manufacture of flexible printed circuit boards and related component assemblies for the electronics industry. The company’s products are used in feature phones, smart phones, consumer electronic devices, portable bar code scanners, computer/storage devices, and medical devices. It sells its products primarily through its design and application engineers. Multi-Fineline Electronix serves original equipment manufacturers, electronic manufacturing service providers, and display manufacturers. It operates primarily in the United States, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Anaheim, California. Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc. is a subsidiary of WBL Corporation Limited.

ChipWrights can't improve your golf game, but could improve your image. The fabless semiconductor company develops visual signal processors (ViSPs), a type of digital signal processor designed for imaging applications. ViSPs are used in products such as cell phones, digital still cameras, printers, and video editing systems. ChipWrights outsources manufacturing of its chips, and also licenses its designs. The company was founded in 2000 by Brian Fitzgerald (former CEO), John Redford (CTO), and other executives of the company. ChipWrights Design's investors included Axiom Venture Partners, BancBoston Ventures, and Rock Maple Ventures. AD Group of the UK acquired the company's assets and business in 2005.

Finding a flaw on a semiconductor was a high-tech version of finding a needle in a haystack, until ICOS Vision Systems came along. A subsidiary of KLA-Tencor, ICOS Vision Systems is a leading designer and supplier of machine vision and inspection systems, offering proprietary technology (a camera and software combination) that can "see" the position and quality of a product during assembly. Its ICOS CI branded stand-alone inspection systems spot defects during the back-end of the semiconductor manufacturing process. The majority of its customers are in the Asia/Pacific region, where most of the world's top contractors in semiconductor packaging and testing are located.

Stretch, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Krefeld, Germany. Stretch, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and supplies software configurable processors and development tools for compute-intensive applications. Its products include channel DVR add-in cards; channel capture cards; and DVR capture cards that provide video and audio capture, real-time display, and hardware compression features for DVR designers. The company also offers Stretch IDE, which provides an intuitive development flow, and focuses on programming and system configuration, as well as integrates compiler, debugger, assembler, profiler, linker, and editor tools under an intuitive graphical interface; Stretch reference design kits that are designed for the customers to evaluate a reference design and start the preliminary design of their own products; and Intelligent Encoder software development kit, a video processing and compression solution, which is optimized for the Stretch family of software configurable processors. Its products are used in security and surveillance, broadcast video, wireless communication, and industrial imaging applications.

Tegal Corporation company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Petaluma, California. Tegal Corporation (Tegal) designs, manufactures, markets and services plasma etch and deposition systems that enable the production of micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS), power integrated circuits (ICs) and optoelectronic devices found in products like smart phones, networking gear, solid-state lighting and digital imaging. The Company’s plasma etch and deposition tools enable manufacturing techniques, such as three dimensional (3-D) interconnect structures formed by intricate silicon etch, also known as Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE). Etching and deposition constitute two of the principal device production process steps and each must be performed numerous times in the production of such devices. In May 2009, the Company established Tegal France, a wholly owned subsidiary. On September 16, 2008, the Company acquired certain assets from Alcatel Micro Machining Systems (AMMS) and Alcatel Lucent.

Trony Solar Holdings Company Limited was founded in 1993 and is based in Shenzhen, China. Trony Solar Corporation designs, manufactures, and supplies photovoltaic power generation solutions and services for solar energy industry. It offers on and off grid photovoltaic solar systems, building integration photovoltaic power generation systems, and solar street lamps, as well as outdoor and indoor amorphous silicon thin film cells for power electronic devices. The company also provides crystalline silicon solar cells, solar controllers, and photovoltaic curtain walls, as well as solar energy aerators. In addition, it offers commercial advisory, project, technical supporting, and training services, as well as solution of solar stations.

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