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.

MINEBEA company is one of the world's leading makers of miniature ball bearings and high precision components. It produces about 8,500 varieties of bearings and electronic devices for use by telecommunications, aerospace, automotive, and household electrical appliance industries. In addition to a diversity of bearings, MINEBEA lineup offers machinery parts and ball-bearing spindle motors for disk drives, keyboards, and other computer-related hardware. The company's integrated manufacturing systems, ultra precision machining, and mass-production technologies reach through 41 subsidiaries, primarily in Asia.

Badger Meter, Inc. engages in manufacturing and marketing flow measurement and control products for water utilities, municipalities, and industrial customers worldwide. Its products are used to measure and control the flow of liquids in various applications. The company provides utility and industrial product lines. The utility product line comprises residential and commercial water meters with various automatic meter reading technology systems. The industrial product line consists of precision valves, electromagnetic inductive flow meters, impeller flow meters, turbine and positive displacement industrial flow meters, and automotive fluid meters. Badger Meter, Inc. sells its products through direct sales representatives, distributors, and independent sales representatives. The company was founded in 1905 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

IPG Photonics Corporation was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts. IPG Photonics Corporation (IPG) is a developer and manufacturer of a line of fiber lasers for diverse applications in numerous markets. The Company’s lines of low, mid and high-power lasers and amplifiers are used in materials processing, advanced, communications and medical applications. It sells its products globally to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators and end users. It markets its products internationally primarily through its direct sales force, and also through agreements with independent sales representatives and distributors. IPG designs and manufactures components used in its finished products, from semiconductor diodes to optical fiber preforms, finished fiber lasers and amplifiers. It also makes packaged diodes, direct diode laser systems and communications systems that utilize its optical fiber-based products. In January 2010, the Company announced the acquisition of Photonics Innovations, Inc.

The John A. Becker Company is led by its founder's grandson, chairman and CEO Thomas J. Becker, and has continued since 1920 as a family-held independent. Becker's and Becker Electric Supply, the company distributes electrical supplies, commercial and residential lighting, and automation controls through locations in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Becker's carries lines from Belden, Emerson, Fluke, General Cable, Honeywell, Philips, Siemens, and Woodhead Industries, among many big brand manufacturers. Catering to OEMs and MROs (Honda of America Manufacturing and AK Steel are customers), it also offers maintenance, repair, and related operations support.

ZiLOG, Inc. (ZiLOG) is a fabless semiconductor supplier of microprocessor and microcontroller semiconductor products. A microcontroller includes a central processing unit, non-volatile program memory, random access memory for data storage and various peripheral capabilities. The microcontroller is offered as a complete solution because it incorporates application-specific software provided by the customer and may include specialized peripheral device controllers and internal or external non-volatile memory components to enable the storage and access of additional program software. The Company designs, develops, tests and markets a portfolio of devices for a variety of applications used in consumer electronics, home appliances, security systems, point-of-sale terminals, personal computer peripherals, personal health and medical products. In February 2010, IXYS Corporation acquired the Company.

McNaughton-McKay Electric Co. is the name of a new firm of electrical supply dealers, just opened for business at 107 Broadway. The members of the company are Arch McKay and John McNaughton, the former for a number of years with the Miller-Seldon Electric Co., and the latter with Henry L. Walker & Co. Messrs. McNaughton and McKay are both young men with lots of friends, lots of ambition, and lots of ability.” With this announcement, McNaughton-McKay Electric Company began its journey of becoming a prominent player in the electrical distribution industry that was and is marked by exceptional leadership, sound business principals, clear vision, superior customer service, best in class suppliers and most importantly outstanding employees.

MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. company was founded in 1984 and is based in St. Peters, Missouri. Memc Electronic Materials Inc is engaged into designing, manufacturing, and selling of silicon wafers. Its customers include major semiconductor device and solar cell (device) manufacturers. It provides wafer in sizes ranging from 100 millimeters (4 inch) to 300 millimeters (12 inch). The Company also sells intermediate products, such as polysilicon, silane gas, ingots and scrap wafers to semiconductor device and equipment makers, solar cell and module manufacturers, flat panel and other industries. The Company offers variety of wafers varying in size, surface features, composition, purity levels, crystal properties and electrical properties. In November 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of Sun Edison LLC.

Micropac Industries, Inc. company was founded in 1963 and is based in Garland, Texas. Micropac Industries, Inc. manufactures and distributes various types of hybrid microelectronic circuits, solid state relays, power operational amplifiers, and optoelectronic components and assemblies. The Company's products are used as components in a range of military, space and industrial systems, including aircraft instrumentation and navigation systems, power supplies, electronic controls, computers, medical devices, and high-temperature (200 degree centigrade) products. The Company’s products are either custom (being application specific circuits designed and manufactured to meet the particular requirements of a single customer) or standard components, such as catalog items. The Company's products are marketed throughout the United States and in Western Europe, through a direct technical sales staff, independent representatives and independent stocking distributors.

French Gerleman is an American company in a manly business. It distributes automation, electrical, datacom, and power transmission equipment through five branches in Illinois, Kansas, and Missouri. Customers are served in the industrial, commercial, and construction markets. French Gerleman Supply & Service Center handles most of the distribution business, while IT products go through Applied Group (its Applied Technologies and Applied Information Systems subsidiaries).

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