Dynasil Corporation of America, through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of optical products and optical instruments, as well as contract research in the United States and internationally. Its products include optical instruments, as well as components that are used for optical instruments, lasers, analytical instruments, semiconductor/electronic devices, automotive components, spacecraft/aircraft components, and in devices for the solar energy industry. The company also produces various analytical instruments, including instruments designed to measure the Sun Protection Factor of sunscreens, handheld instruments to determine whether there is lead in the paint of buildings and whether electronics are in compliance with the reduction of hazardous substances regulations, and medical probes that reduce the scope of cancer surgery. Dynasil Corporation distributes its products through its direct sales force domestically, as well as through manufacturer's representatives internationally. The company was founded in 1960 and is based in West Berlin, New Jersey.

The Capitol Light & Supply Company -- known to all as CLS -- was founded in 1920. Through about 20 locations in New England, CLS distributes lighting products (ballasts, fixtures, emergency lighting systems, lamps), wire and cable, fans, and conduit. Morris B. Cartin started CLS and ran it until his death in 1937, after which his wife, Edith, was the president for 25 years. Mickey Cartin, grandson of the founder, sold CLS to international electrical distributor Rexel in mid-2006. CLS became part of Rexel's US subsidiary, Rexel, Inc., and is known as Rexel CLS and Rexel Capitol Light.

Vitesse Semiconductor was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Camarillo, California. Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Vitesse) is a provider of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) that are utilized primarily by manufacturers of networking systems for Carrier, Enterprise and Storage communications applications. Vitesse designs, develops and markets a portfolio of high-performance semiconductor products. The Company’s customers include communications and enterprise original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), such as Alcatel-Lucent, Ciena Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., IBM, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., H3C Technologies Co., Limited, Nortel Networks Corp., Nokia Siemens Networks B.V., Tellabs, Inc. and ZTE Corporation. As of September 30, 2009, the Company operated four domestic design centers in the United States, in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Texas, and four international design centers in Taiwan, Denmark, Germany and India.

INFICON is a leading provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced process control software that enhance the productivity and quality of sophisticated vacuum processes in highly specialized markets. These analysis, measurement and control products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration/automotive manufacturing. They are vital to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for flat panel displays, solar cells, magnetic and optical storage media, scientific and consumer optics, and architectural glass coatings. Other industrial users of our vacuum technology include the life sciences, research, aerospace, food packaging, heat treating, sterilization, and laser cutting. We also leverage our expertise in vacuum technology to provide unique, toxic chemical analysis products for emergency response, security, and environmental monitoring.

National Semiconductor (UK) Ltd. company, which is a subsidiary of big analog chip maker National Semiconductor, began producing microchips in 1970. Through its wafer fabrication facility in Greenock, Scotland, it produces analog semiconductors, power management chips, LED drivers, and other devices used in mobile consumer electronics, medical imaging instruments, sensing and detection equipment, and communications gear. A lawsuit brought by employees of the Greenock fab, claiming that toxic chemicals used in the facility had harmed unborn children, was settled in early 2006. The United Kingdom is National Semi's second largest European market, after Germany.

Q-Tran manufactures electronic components, such as toroidal transformers and power supply centers, for low-voltage lighting fixtures. It also makes ballasts, power units, lighting power supplies, and low-voltage power supplies. The company was established in 1993 and is owned by its officers. Founder and CEO John Tremaine started the business after entering his family's lighting business more than two decades earlier, establishing his own lighting design practice in 1980, and opening a lighting showroom in 1985.

NeoMagic Corporation company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. NeoMagic Corporation is engaged in designing, developing and marketing semiconductor solutions, known as applications processors, for salling to manufacturing of mobile phones and handheld devices. The Company delivers a suite of middleware and sample applications for imaging, video and audio functionality, and it provides multiple operating system ports with customized drivers for its products. Its product portfolio includes semiconductor solutions known as Applications Processors. The Company’s Applications Processors are sold under the MiMagic brand name. In mobile phones, its Applications Processors are designed to work side-by-side with baseband processors that are used for communications functionality. On February 15, 2008, it completed the sale of selected patents, which included its embedded DRAM patents, and a patent application to Faust Communications Holdings, LLC. As of January 25, 2009, the Company’s NeoMobile TV chip is not in production.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software, and services for research, manufacture, analysis, discovery, and diagnostics. The company operates in two segments, Analytical Technologies and Laboratory Products and Services. The Analytical Technologies segment offers scientific instruments, including analytical instrumentation to analyze prepared samples; biosciences products for general chemistry and life sciences applications; software interpretation tools and development support; and laboratory automation equipment and systems. It also offers diagnostics products and services used in healthcare laboratories to prepare and analyze patient samples to detect and diagnose diseases; process instruments that provide measurement solutions and services; and solutions and services for environmental monitoring, safety, and security. The Laboratory Products and Services segment offers laboratory equipment, including sample preparation, environment storage and handling equipment, and laboratory workstations; laboratory consumables; research market solutions; and healthcare market products comprising analytical equipment, diagnostic tools, and reagents. This segment also offers workplace and first responder equipment, protective gear, and apparel; and packaging, warehousing, distribution, labeling, and analytical laboratory services. Thermo Fisher serves pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions, government agencies, and environmental and industrial process control settings in the United States, Germany, England, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Thermo Electron Corporation and changed its name to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in November 2006 as a result of the merger with Fisher Scientific International Inc. Thermo Fisher was founded in 1956 and is based in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Metric Equipment Sales, known as MetricTest, will not teach you how to convert hectares and hectoliters, but getting electronic test equipment is another story. The company distributes and leases new and refurbished electronic testing equipment, such as attenuators, counters, logic analyzers, multimeters, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and signal generators, and accessories like power supplies. Product brands include Advantest, Agilent, Fluke, Rohde & Schwarz, and Tektronix. MetricTest also offers instrument calibration services.

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.

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