The contract manufacturer of quick-turn printed circuit boards (PCBs) and prototypes is known for offering interesting incentives to customers, including dinner gift certificates for referrals. Engineering students can receive sponsorships for projects and low cost prototypes. The company offers lead-free solder finishing on all prototype boards. Customers have included NASA, Displaytech, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Microfabrica. Advanced Circuits was founded in 1989. Compass Equity Group financed a management buyout of the company in 2005.

J. H. Larson distributes electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and data communications products to customers through eight branch locations in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Larson's showrooms feature its Pahl's Kitchen and Bath Collection, an assortment of kitchen cabinets and accessories for bathrooms and kitchens, with products from a variety of manufacturers. One showroom is home to Pahl's Premiere Lighting Collection, and the company has also established Lappin Lighting, a lighting showroom in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis.

Bodine Electric Company is a leading manufacturer of fractional horsepower gearmotors (less than 1HP / 746 Watts), motors and motor speed controls in North America. Bodine Electric offers over 1,000 standard products, and thousands of custom designed gearmotors, motors and speed controls (AC Fixed Speed, AC Variable Speed, Brushless DC, and Permanent Magnet DC). Bodine products are available via an extensive distributor network or sold directly to OEMs. Known for their reliability, long life and competitive prices, Bodine gearmotors are found in many demanding industrial and commercial applications. Bodine is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with manufacturing and assembly operations in Peosta, Iowa.

Adiabatic Logic Ltd. company was founded in 2002 and is based in Dry Drayton, the United Kingdom. Adiabatic Logic Limited develops and licenses energy recycling intellectual property (IP) techniques that are used to reduce power used by electronic systems in the United Kingdom. It provides an intelligent output driver (IOD) technology that uses the speed of submicron CMOS to mimic the voltage-current drive characteristics of a classic driver with a source terminator resistor; and an adiabatic super buffer on-chip technology that allows heavily loaded interconnects using half of the power used by a conventional buffer. The company also offers design services in the areas of analog and mixed-signal/digital ASIC design, and low-power IP and digital/VHDL design. Its IP techniques are used to reduce the power consumption of digital computer chips used in laptop computers, personal digital assistants, and mobile phones.

Keithley Instruments, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets electronic instruments and systems for use in production testing, process monitoring, product development, and research. The company offers approximately 500 products to source, measure, connect, control, or communicate direct current, radio frequency (RF), or optical signals. Its products include integrated systems solutions comprising instruments and personal computer plug-in boards that could be used as system components or stand-alone solutions; parametric test systems; and semiconductor characterization system. The company also offers characterization and curve tracer software for component test applications, parametric test system, arbitrary waveform/function generator, system switch/multimeter and plug-in card family, and SourceMeter instrument line. Its customers include engineers, technicians, and scientists in manufacturing, product development, and research functions. Keithley Instruments markets its products through its sales personnel and through direct marketing and catalog mailings in the United States, as well as directly, and through distributors and manufacturer representatives internationally. The company was founded in 1946 and is based in Solon, Ohio.

JEOL USA company distributes analytical instruments, electron optics, and semiconductor production equipment. JEOL's products include electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, sample preparation equipment, and silicon wafer inspection equipment. JEOL USA was founded as the US sales arm of Japan-based scientific instrument maker JEOL Ltd. in 1962. JEOL USA provides sales and support of JEOL products throughout the Americas. Researchers at Boston College, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MIT, the University of Alberta, The University of Southern California, and Wesleyan University, among other institutions, use JEOL equipment.

Tri-Star Electronics International, Inc. manufactures interconnect products for aerospace, avionics, and electronics original equipment manufacturers. The company offers a line of contacts that include power, thermocouple, signal, wire-wrap, crimp, solder cup, coax, twinax, and triax; cable products, which range from custom cable assemblies to racking systems; and wire processing equipment and connectors. It sells its products through a network of sales representatives and distributors. Tri-Star Electronics International, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is based in El Segundo, California. It has manufacturing facilities in California and Switzerland. The company has sales representative locations in Dallas, Texas; Kettering, Ohio; and Switzerland and Italy. It has distributor locations in Anaheim, Temecula, Brea, and Chatsworth, California; Phoenix, Arizona; Moorestown, New Jersey; Fort Worth, Texas; and the Netherlands.

Aptina Imaging Corporation company makes CMOS image sensors (semiconductors that convert light into electronic images) used in various types of cameras. Its sensors are built into digital and video cameras, as well as cameras used in mobile phones, PCs, and surveillance equipment. The company also makes sensors for medical scoping cameras (i.e. used for colonoscopies) and back-up cameras embedded in automobiles. Aptina partners with mobile handset makers and camera component designers and distributes its products in North America, Europe, and Asia. Memory chip maker Micron Technology formed Aptina in 2008 and spun it off in 2009.

ASM International N.V. is a leading supplier of semiconductor process equipment in both front- and back-end markets. The Company possesses a strong technological base, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, a competent and qualified workforce and a highly trained, strategically distributed support network. Each of ASM International's major products are qualified for 300mm wafer processing. This and other leading-edge process and equipment developments ensure ASM International a position of strength and growth for many years. ASM International and its subsidiaries provide production solutions for wafer processing, assembly and packaging of semiconductor devices through their facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Almere, The Netherlands.

Hagemeyer North America distributes electrical, industrial, safety and other maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products from more than 300 locations across North America. It also performs instrumentation repair and calibration, hydrostatic testing, and air sampling, as well as other services including inspection, cleaning, and installation of safety equipment and logistics. Customers include 3M, DuPont, Philips, Cardiac Science, Cummins Engine, Philips Lighting, and other government, defense, transportation, aviation, petrochemical, and utility entities. HNA became a subsidiary of French distribution giant Sonepar's US subsidiary in 2008.

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