TDK Corporation ompany actually records most of its sales from the sale of manufactured electronic materials and components. The company, which pioneered the use of the magnetic substance ferrite in the 1930s, is a major supplier of such products as ferrite magnets, transformer and inductor cores, and multilayer chip capacitors. Other components include voltage-controlled oscillators, noise reduction filters, and magnetic recording heads used inside computer disk drives. TDK gets more than 70% of its sales outside of Japan. Late in 2008 the company acquired EPCOS, a leading rival in passive components, for about E1.2 billion (around $1.9 billion) in cash.

Nanometrics Incorporated, together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports thin film, optical critical dimension, and overlay dimension metrology systems. It offers metrology systems, which include standalone and fully automated systems for high-volume semiconductor manufacturing process control; integrated systems incorporated onto semiconductor and solar photovoltaics (PV) processing systems that provide real-time measurements and feedback; and standalone manual and semi-automated systems used to monitor material characteristics of various silicon and compound semiconductor devices and substrates. The company's products also include fourier-transform infrared and photoluminescence metrology systems. Its products are used primarily in manufacturing of semiconductors, solar PV, and high-brightness LEDs, as well as by customers in silicon wafer and data storage industries. The company offers its products through direct sales force, distributors, and representatives in Asia, the United States, and Europe. Nanometrics Incorporated was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Trio-Tech International, Inc. was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in Van Nuys, California. Trio-Tech International (TTI) provides third-party semiconductor testing and burn-in services primarily through its laboratories in Southeast Asia. The Company also designs, manufactures and markets equipment and systems to be used in the process of testing semiconductors at its facilities in California and Southeast Asia, and distributes semiconductor processing and testing equipment manufactured by other vendors. The Company operates in three segments: testing services, manufacturing, distribution and real estate. In April 2009, Trio-Tech International Pte., Ltd. set up a new entity, SHI International Pte., Ltd. (SHI), in which Trio-Tech International Pte., Ltd. holds 55% of the ownership interest. On April 7, 2009, SHI entered into a share purchase agreement, pursuant to which SHI acquired from Erni Susanto Susi, Dwi Kartikarini and PT SAS International shares of PT SAS Heavy Industry (SASHI). SASHI engages in engineering and fabrication work for oil and gas companies.

Nuvera Fuel Cells company is developing clean-burning fuel processors and fuel cell systems for cars, buses, telecommunications backup systems, and consumers' homes. Its fuel processors extract hydrogen from common fuels such as gasoline, methanol, kerosene, and propane. This hydrogen can be used in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells to produce electricity. Nuvera was formed in 2000 when Italy's De Nora Fuel Cells merged with Epyx Corp. (a subsidiary of Arthur D. Little). De Nora owns 37% of Nuvera and energy giant Hess owns 53%. Automaker Renault holds 10% of Nuvera Fuel Cells.

Beckman Coulter, Inc. provides biomedical testing instrument systems, tests, and supplies for clinical laboratories worldwide. The company manufactures chemistry systems, such as routine chemistry systems that use electrochemical detection, chemical reactions with patient samples to detect and quantify substances of diagnostic interest in blood, urine, and other body fluids; and point of care testing products comprising rapid diagnostic test kits and hematology instruments that give physicians information to manage patients. It also provides immunoassay systems performing tests that assess thyroid function, screen and monitor for cancer and cardiac risk, provide information in fertility and reproductive testing, and monitor factors associated with anemia, blood viruses, and infectious disease; and molecular diagnostics that includes testing for infectious diseases, genetic diseases, and disorders, human cancers, and pharmacogenics. Beckman Coulter offers cellular systems for clinicians, such as hematology systems to study formed elements in blood, such as red and white blood cells and platelets; coagulation systems offering information to diagnose bleeding and clotting disorders and to monitor anticoagulant therapy; and flow cytometry systems used in applications in basic research, clinical research, and drug discovery. The company's life science products and services comprise life sciences automation products, centrifugation, and life science tools. It sells its products through sales organizations and independent distributors to hospitals, physician's offices, reference laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities, medical schools, and research institutions. The company was formerly known as Beckman Instruments, Inc. and changed its name to Beckman Coulter, Inc. in April 1998 as of result of acquisition of Coulter Corporation. Beckman Coulter was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Brea, California.

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.

Marlow Industries develops and manufactures thermoelectric modules and value-added systems for the aerospace, defense, medical, industrial, automotive, power generation and telecommunications markets. Marlow prides itself on providing standard or custom modules and sub-assemblies to meet our customers’ requirements. Marlow Industries, we configure our thermoelectric solutions to meet customer’s requirements and optimize the performance of their applications. Market focused business teams act as an extension of your business providing industry expertise and feedback to successfully deploy thermoelectric technology within an application. With our full range of products and services, Marlow can offer the optimum solution to meet the quality, cost and delivery needs of the customer.

TTI was founded in 1971 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas. TTI, Inc. distributes passive, interconnect, and electromechanical components for industrial, military, aerospace, and consumer electronic manufacturers. It offers cable management products, resistors, capacitors, connectors, circuit protection products, filters, magnetics, pots and trimmers, relays, sensors and encoders, sound devices, and switches. The company also offers timing devices, potentiometers, wires and cables, wire management products, identification products, application tools, and electromechanical devices, as well as a range of passives and interconnect line card. In addition, it provides packaging, labeling, marking, lead preparation, documentation, connector, and other component value-added services; a range of products and services that assist customers in managing their supply chain online and in real time; extranet services; and passive and electromechanical technology and market information online. It has locations in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Waytronx, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Tualatin, Oregon. Waytronx, Inc. engages in commercializing thermal management solutions for the semiconductor and electronic packaging industries. The company commercializes thermal cooling technology under the name WayCool. Its cooling solutions for central and graphics processors, solar energy devices, and power supplies help in the thermal management process in the electronics industry. The company’s solutions are used for cooling applications in graphics processing units, central processing units, power supply units, solar energy, medical monitors, test appliances, and home electronics displays. Waytronx, through its wholly owned subsidiary, CUI, Inc., also provides electronic components, including power supplies, transformers, converters, connectors, and industrial controls for original equipment manufacturers.

Ortronics company, a US-based subsidiary of French electrical fittings maker Legrand Holding, provides cabling systems and other networking equipment used by telecommunication service providers. Key products and brands include the company's line of Clarity cross-connect systems, Mighty Mo cable management systems (named for company founder Maurice "Mo" Orlando), and other patch panels and cords. The company also designs and sells its LabelMo software used to label patch panels and workstation outlets.

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