Quoth the Raven, "Reinforced plastic, electronics, flow control devices, and balloons!" Raven Industries' engineered films division does make reinforced plastic sheeting for various applications, including hot air balloons. Its electronic systems division offers electronic manufacturing services, as well as design support, material procurement and management, and eco stress testing. An applied technology leg manufactures high tech agricultural aids, from global positioning system (GPS)-based chemical spray equipment to field computers and steering systems. Raven's Aerostar subsidiary produces high altitude research balloons, parachutes, and protective wear used by the US agencies. Goodrich is a major customer.

Zoran Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in Canada, China, England, France, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Zoran Corporation is a provider of digital solutions in the digital entertainment and digital imaging market. Zoran has developed high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications and Connect Share Entertain technologies for the digital home. The Company’s products consist of integrated circuits and related products used in digital versatile disc (DVD), players, movie and home theater systems, digital cameras and video editing systems. It provides integrated circuits (ICs), software and platforms for digital television applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television, as well as digital imaging products consisting of semiconductor hardware and software that enable users to print, scan, process and transmit documents to computer peripherals that perform printing functions. On June 12, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Let It Wave, which is a fabless development-stage semiconductor company.

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

Venkel was founded in 1986 by Anil Venkatrao, the company's president, and CFO Ravi Venkatrao. Venkel is active in manufacturing passive components used in products, such as automotive electronics, computers, consumer and industrial electronics, and telecommunications equipment. The company's passives are placed on printed circuit boards incorporating surface-mount technology, which saves space compared with through-hole boards. Venkel's products, which it sells directly, through distributors, or from its catalog, includes chip capacitors (multilayer ceramic capacitors, or MLCCs, and tantalum caps), chip inductors, chip resistors, chip resistor networks, choke coils, ferrite beads, and engineering kits.

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers products and technologies for the entertainment industry worldwide. The company offers products and services for content creators, which include encoding products and services for moviemakers, music studios, and video game designers; encoders, decoders, and processors for television producers and broadcasters; and mastering and packaging services for digital cinema business. It also provides encoders and digital audio coding technology for digital video disc producers. In addition, the company offers content distribution products and services, including broadcasting products for terrestrial, cable, and satellite broadcast transmissions; and provides training, broadcast system design expertise, and on-site technical expertise to broadcasters. It licenses its technologies to media software vendors, such as operating system vendors, independent software vendors, and integrated circuit manufacturers, as well as manufacturers of home audio and video products, set top boxes, video game consoles, mobile devices, in-car entertainment systems, and PC manufacturers. Dolby Laboratories sells its products directly to customers, as well as through dealers and distributors.

Carling Technologies our commitment to quality begins with our investment in research and development. Carling employs a skilled team of highly qualified engineers equipped with the industry's most advanced computer-aided design tools. Our engineering team will work closely with yours to advance your project from initial product concepts to final design and manufacturing. Carling engineers can evaluate multiple design alternatives as well as develop products, tooling, and manufacturing processes concurrently.A multi-faceted computer integrated manufacturing system allows tooling and fixtures to be designed and built in-house. Rigorous quality checkpoints are established for each stage of the design and manufacturing. State-of-the-art statistical process controls and end product testing methods monitor and document quality checks. Each product leaving the factory has been carefully tested to be free of defects in design, materials, or manufacturing.

CiDRA company now offers the SONARtrac line of process measuring instruments, used in oil and gas wells monitoring, mineral processing, paper and pulp manufacturing, and other industrial applications. SONARtrac can keep track of gases, liquids, slurries, and various fluids. CiDRA was founded by president and CEO Kevin Didden in 1996. In 2003 the company spun off a supplier of instruments for the biosciences, CyVera, that was acquired in 2005 by Illumina. In mid-2008 CiDRA sold its oil and gas metering business to Expro International Group for $60.5 million in cash.

INNOLUX company makes LCD panels used in popular consumer electronics like flat-screen TVs, desktop and laptop computer monitors, portable DVD players, and wireless phones. It produces both the components and the finished panels and other products, insulating it from the volatility that plagues other display-only companies. Innolux also benefits from low prices for parts produced by its parent, electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry.

Nitronex Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Nitronex Corporation develops and manufactures gallium nitride on silicon RF power transistors for wireless infrastructure, broadband, and military markets. It offers RF power, cellular RF, and broadband power transistors. The company's clients include top base station manufacturers.

ECS, the Elitegroup Computer Systems (TSE: 2331), has been a pioneer in designing and manufacturing computer motherboards since 1987. It was the first motherboard maker in Taiwan to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1994. Today, the company also designs and manufactures barebone and complete systems, such as notebook computers and high-end servers, for distributors worldwide.ECS has ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certified manufacturing facilities in China, capable of producing over 2.5 million motherboards and 200,000 notebook computers every month. The company currently has branch offices throughout the world in Americas, Europe and the Pacific Rim. To further extend its quality products and services, ECS plans to open additional branch offices in the new emerging markets including Brazil, India and Russia.

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