The Durham Co. have Thomas Edison to thank for their jobs. For over a half century the company has manufactured electrical hook-ups for investor-owned utilities to rural electric coops, and electric municipalities. Its lineup specializes in meter sockets, metering enclosures, socket-breakers and switch combinations, and transformers. Durham enclosures protect breakers and generator transfer switches, as well as meter pedestals. For metering relay circuits and instrument circuits, Durham also makes an array of test switches. The company's two Missouri plants divide up work; one makes the pad mount product line, and the other, enclosures and sockets. Durham is owned by the family of George E. Carr.

Digi-Key company distributes electronic components to businesses and consumers mainly in the US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Digi-Key uses an entirely in-house sales force and does business by means of telemarketing and a catalog featuring more than 300,000 products from 400-plus manufacturers, such as 3M, Freescale, and Texas Instruments. Its products, ranging from AC line cords to zinc-oxide non-linear resistors, also are available through a downloadable catalog featured on the company's Web site

Brooks Automation Inc. company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Brooks Automation, Inc. (Brooks) is a provider of automation, vacuum and instrumentation solutions and is a business partner to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and equipment users throughout the world. The Company also provides solutions to customers in data storage, advanced display, analytical instruments and solar markets. Brooks operates in three segments: Critical Solutions Group, Systems Solutions Group and Global Customer Operations. The Critical Solutions Group segment provides a variety of products critical to technology equipment productivity and availability. The Systems Solutions Group segment provides a range of products and engineering and manufacturing services. The Global Customer Operations segment provides a range of support services.

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon. TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (TriQuint) is a supplier of modules, components and foundry services to communications companies. The Company offers different radio frequency (RF) and other intermediate frequency products that address three markets: handsets, networks and military systems. The Company’s products are designed on various wafer substrates, including compound semiconductor materials, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and piezoelectric crystals, such as lithium tantalate (LiTaO3). The Company uses technologies using GaAs substrates, including heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs). Using various other substrates the Company also manufacture surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) products.On May 22, 2008, TriQuint completed the acquisition of WJ Communications, Inc. In September 2009, the Company announced the acquisition of TriAccess Technologies.

The Hite Company was founded in 1949 and is based in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It has locations in Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia. The company has lighting showrooms and an online showroom in Pennsylvania. The Hite Company distributes electrical and lighting products. It offers load centers and panel boards, circuit breakers, lamps and ballasts, lighting fixtures, wire and cable, conduit, fuses, electric heat, and hand tools, as well as provides and house audio and home theatre systems. The company provides professional video/audio equipment, such as audio and public address systems, studio cameras, and video and presentation products, including projectors and scan converters; and automation and control products, such as relays, limit switches, sensors, motor contractors/starter, PLC’s, operator interface devices, SCADA software, and variable frequency drives. It also offers power quality products, including power monitoring equipment, handheld meters and analyzers, transient voltage surge suppressors, uninterruptible power supplies, power factor correction capacitors, transformers, and generators. In addition.The Hite Company provides data communication equipment, such as multi-media wall plates, patch panels, and jacks for voice, data, and fax connectivity points; surveillance and security equipment, including CCTV cameras/monitors, digital recording and switching systems, and IP network video products; multiplex equipment; and process video for factory automation. Further, it offers heating and ventilation products, wall heaters, floor fans, air circulators, ventilation fans, and warm tiles. Further more, the company provides rental program, technical support, recycling, training, and engineering services. The company’s customers include electrical contractors, purchasing agents, builders, maintenance personnel, and end users in residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and government markets.

MEMSCAP makes microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) components, such as radio-frequency switches, variable capacitors, inductors, optical switches and attenuators, and sensors. The company also offers design, integration, and manufacturing services. It caters to a wide variety of markets, including network and medical equipment suppliers, aircraft manufacturers, research institutes and universities, and cosmetic businesses. In 2007 MEMSCAP acquired Les Laboratoires La Licorne, a French firm specializing in the analysis and biodermatological treatment of the skin, supplementing its IntuiSkin skin-care subsidiary.

MATECH Corporation engages in the research and development of metal fatigue detection, measurement, and monitoring technologies in the United States and internationally. The company develops devices and systems that indicate the true status of fatigue damage in a metal component. It produces Fatigue Fuse, a device that integrates the effect of fatigue loading in a structural member. The Fatigue Fuse is designed to be affixed to a structure to give warnings at pre-selected percentages of the fatigue life that has been used up. It also develops Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor, an instrument that detects very small growing fatigue cracks in metals. MATECH Corporation's technology is applicable to various market sectors, such as bridges and aerospace, as well as ships, cranes, railways, power plants, nuclear facilities, chemical plants, mining equipment, piping systems, and heavy iron. The company was formerly known as Material Technologies, Inc and changed its name to MATECH Corporation in October 2008. MATECH Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Vicor Corporation Company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts. Vicor Corporation (Vicor) designs, develops, manufactures and markets modular power components and complete power systems, many of which use a high frequency electronic power conversion technology called zero current and zero voltage switching (ZCS/ZVS). It has organized its business segments according to its key product lines. The Brick Business Unit segment (BBU) designs, develops, manufactures and markets the Company’s modular power converters, known as bricks, and during the year ended December 31, 2008, Vicor introduced a line of modular power converter, known as a VI Brick. The V*I Chip segment consists of V*I Chip Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary, which designs, develops, manufactures and markets the Company’s factorized power architecture (FPA) products. The Picor segment consists of Picor Corporation, a majority owned subsidiary of Vicor, which designs, develops and markets integrated circuits and related products for use in a range of power system applications.

SL Industries was founded in 1956 and is based in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. SL Industries, Inc., through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures and markets power electronics, motion control, power protection and specialized communication equipment that is used in a variety of medical, commercial and military aerospace, computer, datacom, industrial, telecom, transportation and electric power utility equipment applications. The Company’s products are largely sold to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), the electric power utility industry, and to a lesser extent, to commercial distributors. The Company operates through four business segments: SL Power Electronics Corp. (SLPE), the High Power Group, SL Montevideo Technology, Inc. (SL-MTI) and RFL Electronics Inc. (RFL).

SANYO Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was founded in 2006 and is based in Oragun, Japan. Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd. manufactures and provides semiconductor products. It develops integrating analog and digital systems, ultra-small transistors, hard-wired logic ICs, Bi-CMOS IC and analog-digital mixed IC, and thick film ICs that miniaturizes and reduces power consumption of electronic devices. The company also offers motor driver ICs for game machines, cell phones, and digital cameras; microcontrollers ICs; ASIC; digital power amplifiers; discrete devices; amorphous silicon solor cells/photo sensors; original system in package technology ISB; hybrid ICs; flash memory products/EEPROM; ASSP; and system solutions. Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.’s products are used in portable electronic devices, visual applications, audio equipment, data communication and processing, car applications, and home electric appliances. It sells its products in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, India, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

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