Trippe Manufacturing sort of does both. Doing business as Tripp Lite, the company makes over 2,000 products used to protect, power, and connect electronic equipment. Its surge suppressors guard against surges, spikes, and overvoltages that can damage personal computers and other electronic equipment. Its line conditioners automatically adjust to over- and under-voltages. Tripp Lite's uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems provide power during brownouts, blackouts, and in remote locations. Its products include inverters, power strips, cables and switches, storage and network server enclosures, and power-management software.

Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. company is owned by president Lorne Trottier and chairman Branko Matic, who founded Matrox in 1976. Matrox Electronic Systems developed a matrix for graphic success. Matrox focuses on computer graphics, video, and imaging hardware and software. Its Matrox Graphics unit makes multi-display graphics cards for business and gaming applications. Matrox also makes professional video hardware and software for real-time editing, Web streaming, and DVD authoring applications. Its imaging division makes hardware and software for machine vision, image analysis, and video surveillance. Matrox also offers medical display controllers for use in operating rooms and medical presentations.

HunterLab's overall objective is to provide the most effective instruments and services available for the identification, measurement and control of the way things look. With over 55 years of experience, we are able to apply state-of-the-art technology to our systems to ensure their suitability for "real world applications." These systems are application driven and are geared to making the user's product measurement job simple, straightforward and successful. HunterLab instruments are used in a wide variety of industries including building material, chemical, food, paint, paper, pharmaceutical, plastic, textile and many others.HunterLab is an employee-owned, ISO 9001:2000 registered, U.S. company. Each of us has a stake in the company's future. As a result, our corporate philosophy is focused on total customer satisfaction. We are a global company that provides worldwide support through local representation in more than 65 countries. In fact, more than 50% of our business is from international markets.

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.

Quantel was founded in 1970 and since then has built up a first-rate worldwide reputation in the field of solid-state lasers.The Quantel group is the leader in the rapidly advancing field of laser technology and we continuously bring to you new products and new technologies as we have been doing for the past 37 years. The Group invests heavily in research and development and this has led to the introduction of numerous innovative and successful new products. Quantel is an international company with Headquarters located in France and subsidiaries in the USA, in Germany and in France.

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was founded in 1953 and is based in Austin, Texas. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a subsidiary of Freescale Semiconductor Holdings V, Inc. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. engages in designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing a range of semiconductor products worldwide. It offers microcontroller solutions comprising microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors; networking and multimedia products, including communication processors, digital signal processors, networked multimedia devices, and application processors; and radio frequency, analog, and sensors products consisting of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, sensors, and radio frequency devices. The company’s products are used in automotive, industrial, consumer, wireless and wireline infrastructure, SOHO and home networking, mobile consumer, and computer peripheral application areas. Freescale Semiconductor sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and contract manufacturers through its direct sales force and distributors.

Founded in 2002, Ahura Scientific develops rugged, ultra-compact, field-enabled optical systems for the immediate identification and verification of liquid and solid chemicals. The company brings together technical expertise in miniature optics and electronics, high-performance semiconductor laser fabrication and advanced chemometric algorithms to enable novel solutions for a range of markets. This technical excellence, coupled with first-class customer insight and support, ensures that Ahura Scientific is a trusted partner for customers worldwide. Ahura Scientific has been honored with numerous prestigious awards including multiple Cygnus Innovation awards, the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Product of the Year, the American Business Awards Most Innovative Company 2008, the Ernst and Young 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year award; an R&D Magazine R&D 100; the Industrial Design Society of America Award for Excellence in Industrial Design; the SBANE 2007 Innovation Award; and the Frost & Sullivan 2006 Chemical Detection Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year.

Established in 1988, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation Limited operates two wafer fabrication plants, or fabs, located in Shanghai. Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (ASMC) operates as an independent silicon foundry, manufacturing analog semiconductors and higher bipolar content-based mixed-signal semiconductors on a contract basis for other chip companies. Its customers include both fabless semiconductor companies and integrated device manufacturers; the latter have their own factories, but often contract out work. NXP owns nearly 27% of the company; Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park Development owns another quarter of ASMC.

ZBD Displays designs and supplies. Dubbed an epop (electronic point of purchase), the zero-powered, bistable liquid-crystal display (LCD) attaches to a shelf to give product information. The epop interacts with a two-way "Bounce" communications device, which is controlled by the retailer's IT system, to wirelessly update. Customers comprise more than 20 retailers, such as PCC Natural Markets, across Europe and the US. ZBD's technology is also used by wireless communications carriers, like AS EMT, in wireless phones and PDAs, as well as by architectural signage companies. ZBD is owed by venture capital groups, including DFJ Esprit and Dow Chemical.

Raymarine, the world leader in marine electronics develops and manufactures the most comprehensive range of electronic equipment for the recreational boating and light commercial marine markets. Designed for high performance and ease-of-use our award-winning products are available through a global network of dealers and distributors. The Raymarine product lines include radar, autopilots, GPS, chartplotters, instruments, fishfinders, communications, software and systems.

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