Electric Supply been in business "on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five," as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem noted. The family-owned company distributes electronic products and industrial supplies, such as cable, conduit, connectors and terminals, fiber-optic hardware, racks and cabinets, lubricants, and tools. Colonial Electric was established not in 1775, but 197 years later, in 1972.

Verigy Ltd. designs, develops, manufactures and sells advanced test systems and solutions for the semiconductor industry. The Company offers a single platform for each of the general categories of devices being tested: its V93000 Series platform, designed to test System-on-a-Chip (SOC), System-in-a-Package (SIP) and high-speed memory devices; its V6000 Series platform, which is the successor to the V5000 platform, designed to test both flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) devices, and its V101 platform, designed to test devices, such as 4, 8 and 16-bit micro-controller units (MCUs). As of October 31, 2009, Verigy Ltd had installed more than 2,000 V93000 Series systems and nearly 2600 V5000 Series systems worldwide. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company acquired the assets and business of Touchdown Technologies, a manufacturer of advanced memory probe cards.

Rambus Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California. Rambus Inc. (Rambus) is engaged in designing, developing and licensing chip interface technologies and architectures. The chip interface technologies are designed for customers’ semiconductor and system products for computing, gaming and graphics, consumer electronics and mobile applications. Rambus also develops a range of solutions, including leadership and industry-standard chip interfaces that it provides to it’s customers under license for incorporation into their semiconductor and system products. In addition, to its leadership solutions, the Company offers industry-standard chip interface solutions, including DDRx (where the x is a number that represents a version). The Company’s customers include AMD, Fujitsu, Qimonda, Intel, NEC, Panasonic, Elpida, IBM, Sony, Renesas and Toshiba.

NanoInk, Inc. engages in developing, manufacturing, and distributing nanometer-scale structures and applications for life science and semiconductor industries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. It offers patterning systems; nanofabrication systems with integrated atomic force microscopy imaging; desktop nanofabrication systems; nanolithography platforms for desktop nanofabrication; research platform enabling Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN); NanoStem biochips; curriculum-led projects for undergraduate education in nanotechnology; and nanotechnology curriculum and product programs. The company provides accessories and consumables, which include probes and pens, substrates, and inkwells and inks; accessories for DPN; and array-based instrument systems and contract research services for nanoscale protein detection and discovery. It also offers DPN instruments and nanofabrication systems for pharmaceutical customers, as well as provides installation, training, and custom application development services. The company’s products are used in protein assay applications, such as kinase profiling, auto-antibody detection, antibody specificity characterization, protein-protein interaction detection, and protein-small molecule interaction studies. It sells its products through distributors in the United States, Canada, Europe, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and India.

Everett Charles Technologies, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of technology board test products. It offers contact probes for testing bare and loaded printed circuit boards, as well as standard and custom contacts for the ATE industry and original equipment manufacturer applications, such as IC, DUT, BGA, PGA, LGA, interface, double ended fine pitch, and anti-walkout. The company also offers various semiconductor test products, including test sockets, performance boards, probe card blanks, spring probes, IC handlers, and contractor designs. In addition, it provides applications solutions for interconnect substrate test, including fixture fabrication for bare board testers, fixture supplies, testing, data prep, and test floor productivity and process control for bare board test equipment; and bare PCB test probes, loaded PCB test probes, semiconductor probes, and tools. It has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Taiwan. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Pomona, California with sales offices in the United States, Germany, and Japan. Everett Charles Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Dover Corp.

Oclaro, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Oclaro, Inc., formerly Bookham, Inc., designs, manufactures and market optical components, modules and subsystems that generate, detect, amplify, combine and separate light signals principally for use in fiber optics communications networks. The Company operates in two business segments: telecom and advanced photonics solutions. Its telecom segment relates to the design, development, manufacture, marketing and sale of optical component products to telecommunications systems vendors. advanced photonics solutions which is focused on the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of optics and photonics solutions for markets including material processing, medical, industrial, printing and biotechnology. It principally sell its transmission and regeneration and optical routing products to telecommunications systems and components vendors, as well as to customers in data communications, military and aerospace. In December 2009, the Company acquired Xtellus, Inc.

The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), but don't blame the company if your train was running late this morning. B&W designs, supplies, and services power generation systems and equipment, from boilers to nuclear steam generators. The company provides about 25% of the world's boiler-powered electricity, and it has made nearly half of the process recovery boilers used in paper mills in the US. The boiler maker's products can be found in more than 800 utilities in 90-plus countries. B&W also owns specialty nuclear fuels company Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS), which has a production plant in Tennessee. B&W owner, McDermott International looks to spinoff B&W in 2010.

newAX company sold its assets to RAD Electronics in mid-2005 and changed its name to newAX. Astrex distributed connectors and electromechanical components. The company also designed and made cable and connector assemblies, and offered packaging, bar coding, and inventory management services. Astrex was established in 1960. RAD Electronics began doing business as Astrex Electronics.

Isola Group, Sarl, with headquarters in Chandler, Arizona, is a technology-driven, global designer, developer and manufacturer of high performance base materials used in the manufacture of advanced multilayer printed circuit boards worldwide.Isola is a privately held company owned by Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a global private equity firm, and Redfern Partners, a strategic investor in the PCB industry. Both TPG and Redfern have invested significantly in our future growth in the United States, Europe and Asia, providing us with long term stability to benefit Isola customers worldwide.Isola's investment in research and development, technology and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and practices results in superior value to our customers, with innovative solutions to minimize costs and cut manufacturing time. Our commitment is reflected in our global network of sales and distribution offices allowing us to meet evolving customer needs and provide a full spectrum of services.Isola's broad range of products are used in multiple applications including: aerospace, automotive, broadband telecommunications, military, chip packaging and testing, high end computing, high speed digital designs and other specialty markets. Isola operates multiple manufacturing, R&D and sales offices throughout Europe, Asia and the United States.

CEDAR Audio makes audio restoration processors and systems used in audio and video recording preservation and audio forensics applications. The company's products are used to remaster old recordings, to analyze and clean-up recordings used in legal investigations, and to suppress unwanted noise in broadcasts. CEDAR Audio also offers forensic audio services such as tape authentication, enhancement, and editing, and commercial audio restoration. The technology was initially developed at the University of Cambridge for the British Library National Sound Archive.

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