Smiths designs sensors to identify biological and chemical agents, narcotics, weapons, and other illegal contraband, for use in banks, prisons, and industrial facilities, as well as in military, first response, transportation, and homeland security applications. Some of its detection and screening technologies utilize spectroscopy (gamma ray, ion mobility, Raman, and infra-red). Smiths company makes X-ray inspection units to scan mail, luggage, and freight, as well as to detect explosives. Smiths company manufactures metal detectors and makes systems for scanning trucks and freight containers. It is one of five subsidiaries of its parent company Smiths Group Plc.

Vestas Wind Systems and its subsidiaries annually manufacture and distribute well over 3,000 on-land and offshore wind turbines used to produce electricity; it offers installation, repair, and maintenance services, as well. Vestas has R&D centers in Denmark, India, Singapore, the UK, and the US. Vestas company's first manufacturing site in the US will begin production in Colorado in 2010. Vestas is teamed up with Boeing on joint research projects. Vestas company, which began manufacturing wind turbines in 1979, operates through a number of business units. The company gets more than half of its sales in Europe.

Photonic Products Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets crystals, crystal devices, electro-optic and optical components, and laser subsystems and instruments for the photonics industry sectors. The company offers optical components, which include standard and custom optical components, optical assemblies, single crystals, and crystal components; and laser system accessories, which include wavelength conversion products and Pockels cells that use nonlinear crystals for laser wavelength conversion. It also develops, manufactures, and delivers precision custom optics and thin film optical coating services for inspection, process control systems, defense and aerospace electro-optical systems, laser system applications, industrial scanners, and medical system applications. In addition, the company develops and manufactures synthetic optical crystals, optical crystal components, crystalline filter materials, and laser accessories for research and development applications by engineers within corporations, universities, and laboratories. Further, it uses precision CNC and diamond machining, polishing, plating, aluminum, albemet, beryllium and stainless steel opto-mechanical design, component manufacturing, and assembly services in the manufacture of custom optics. The company's principal customers include commercial instrumentation companies, OEM laser manufacturers, research laboratories, government agencies, and defense contractors. It sells its products through own sales staff and sales agents.

BP Solar International displays a certain star power as it seeks to transform the sun's energy into electricity. A subsidiary of UK oil giant BP, the company designs, manufactures, supplies, and installs photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules that provide power for homes, remote villages and industrial facilities, commercial businesses, and local government. Its plants are in the US, India, and China. BP Solar also offers an array of services, from cost estimation to logistic management, remote monitoring, and training. Customers include Ericsson, FedEx Freight, NEC, and Telstra.

Towa Intercon Technology, Inc. company makes equipment used in the back end of semiconductor production. After front-end equipment deposits precise layers of materials onto silicon wafers and then etches circuit patterns into these layers, back-end gear gets chips ready for use by cutting apart the wafers and packaging the resulting chips into molded plastic housings. Towa Intercon makes specialized sawing systems that divide wafers into individual chips through a process called singulation. The company also markets chip package molding devices from Japan-based semiconductor equipment maker TOWA. Towa Intercon is a wholly owned subsidiary of TOWA.

FEI Company, together with its subsidiaries, supplies instruments for nanoscale imaging, analysis, and prototyping that enable research, development, and manufacturing in industrial, academic, and research institutional applications. Its products include focused ion beam systems, scanning electron microscopes, transmission electron microscopes, and DualBeam systems. The company's products facilitate laboratories to enhance new product development and yields by enabling 3D wafer metrology, defect analysis, root cause failure analysis, and circuit edit for modifying device structures; provide data storage market with thin film head processing and root cause failure analysis services; enable researchers and manufacturers to develop, analyze, and produce products through its atomic-level resolution images; and create 3D reconstructions of complex biological structures, through its ultra-high resolution imaging in the life sciences market. The company serves universities and research institutes engaged in biotech and life sciences applications; pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies and hospitals; semiconductor, data storage, and related industries, such as printers and microelectromechanical systems; and a range of industrial customers, including automobiles, aerospace, metals, mining, and petrochemicals. FEI Company sells its products through direct sales personnel, as well as through independent agents, distributors, and representatives in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets baseband processor solutions for the wireless communications market. It offers a portfolio of integrated baseband processor solutions that support a range of wireless communications standards, including global system for mobile communications (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS) and time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA), an international third generation (3G) standard for wireless communications promoted by China. Its solutions also offer a range of multimedia capabilities, such as television-out, moving picture experts group layer-3 audio (MP3) digital audio playback, touchscreen, JAVA acceleration, digital camera support with up to 5 mega-pixels, motion joint photographic experts group (JPEG), motion picture experts group 4 (MPEG4), audio video coding standard (AVS) and H.264 digital video playback and 64-channel polyphonic ringtone playback.

EIS company distributes over 100,000 electrical products and process materials used to repair and assemble electronics, build electric motors, appliances, and transformers, as well as repair complex equipment such as printed circuit boards. Its EIS Fabrico converts flexible materials, such as cable and wire, laminates, rubber, and tapes, into electrical parts. Through Polifibra, Canada, the company supplies magnet and hook up wire, electrical insulation, and fiberglass electrical sleeving. EIS company caters to over 35,000 Electrical OEMs, Repair, Assembly, and maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities from 30-plus warehouses and three fabrication plants.

Galco Industrial Electronics stocks and distributes electric and electronic component parts and supplies, including connectors and terminals, drives, inverters, sensors, motors, power converters, relays, switches, and test equipment. The company also provides on-site calibration and repair, in-house warranty repair services, engineered systems integration and retrofits, custom cable assemblies, and other value-added services. Galco carries products from ABB, Fluke, General Cable, Heinemann Electric, Toshiba, Vishay, and Yaskawa Electric America, among others.

Rexel company distributes 1.2 million kinds of electrical parts and supplies, including wiring devices, cabling systems, circuit protectors, lighting products, automation equipment, hand tools, climate control equipment, and electronic security components. Rexel's customers include contractors, industrial and service companies, and retailers. Subsidiaries include Conectis (voice and networking products), as well as North American units Rexel, Inc. and Rexel Canada Electrical.

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