Merix finds merit in the circuit board business. The company is a leading manufacturer of advanced multilayer printed circuit boards (PCBs), complex interconnection platforms used within electronic equipment to link components, such as integrated circuits. Merix also provides product design, engineering, and quick-turn prototyping services. Significant customers have included Cisco Systems, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Robert Bosch, TRW Automotive, and Visteon. Leading contract electronics manufacturers use Merix's products on behalf of their OEM clients. Sales come from the communications and networking, aerospace, automotive, computing, defense, industrial, and medical markets.

Madison company has grown from pushing light bulbs, fuses, wire, and conduit, to rival the top 200 electrical and electronics distributors in the US. Joined by affiliate Standard Electric Co., Madison Electric distributes electrical supplies, industrial automation, commercial lighting, and network communication components. Branches dotting Michigan cater to a swath of commercial, industrial, utility, and defense activities. Supply options tout brands by 3M, Brady, Federal Signal, Leviton, Panduit, Square D/Schneider Electric, and Thomas & Betts.

E-MON is manufacture of solid-state electronic kilowatt-hour submeters, automatic meter reading software and other energy management products and services. E-Mon's products are installed worldwide for tenant billing, cost allocation, demand side management, energy conservation and load profiling in skyscrapers, shopping centers, airports, factories, office buildings, apartment buildings, college campuses and government facilities.E-Mon brought the first fully electronic kilowatt hour submeter to market. This product, the E-Mon D-Mon, quickly became the industry standard, making E-Mon the leader in the submetering market. Since that time, E-Mon has continued to expand its product line with state-of-the-art technology in demand profile analysis and energy consumption aggregation.E-Mon has established a network of over 4,000 distributors supported by independent sales representative agencies throughout the world. E-Mon maintains in-house engineering staff for hardware/software development and sales and technical support staff for pre- and post-sale assistance.

Charles is a privately held, diversified manufacturing and high-technology company with corporate headquarters in Rolling Meadows, Illinois and five U.S. manufacturing centers. Charles sells quality products, services and innovative solutions to telecommunications, municipality, utility, marine, and industrial markets worldwide.Charles has successfully balanced growth through innovative engineering and manufacturing, as well as strategic acquisitions. A significant addition to Charles’ Telecommunications Group was the acquisition of Rockwell International’s Wescom division in 1991. In 1998, Charles acquired Alcatel’s T1 and channel bank product lines to complement its existing Access & Transmission and Outside Plant products. One year later, Charles acquired Lucent’s Flexterm® terminal housing equipment line.

Charcroft Electronics is a privately-owned specialist distributor of commercial, BS/CECC and Mil-Std passive and interconnect components and manufacturer of leaded and surface-mount Bulk Metal® Foil Vishay-approved precision resistors and BS/CECC-approved radial multilayer ceramic capacitors.Charcroft Electronics is located in a building whose origins date back to c1535, on the banks of the River Irfon in Llanwrtyd Wells, the smallest town in Great Britain. In contrast to its past history as a spa town, when hundreds flocked to take the ‘waters’ for their ‘medicinal effects’, the area is now more well known for its pony trekking, mountain biking, walking and bird watching together with its annual Man v Horse competition, Beer Festival and World Bog Snorkelling Championship. Having moved to Mid-Wales in 1985 after spending eleven years in Suffolk, where the company was formed, Charcroft now enjoys fully renovated offices and stores in one of the most idyllic locations in the country, with the latest computer software and systems. Our BS9000 and CECC approved manufacturing facility now includes silver mica as well as ceramic capacitors and precision resistors. Charcroft also assembles custom connectors with the option of flying-leads and offers an express manufacturing service, Precision Express®, together with an in-house taping and reeling facility for prototype and pre-production quantities. We have distribution approval to BS9000, IECQCECC and BS EN ISO9001:2000 and with our U.S.A. office based in South Carolina, Charcroft Electronics can meet all your global requirements for Passives, Interconnect and Emech.

Akustica lets your cell phone tell you it feels used. The fabless semiconductor company develops audio system-on-a-chip products used in sound capture and reproduction for automotive, cell phone, computer, imaging, and medical applications. Its Sensory Silicon chips -- based on MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology licensed from Carnegie Mellon University -- allow electronic devices to hear, speak, and sense through acoustic membranes and other sensor structures. The company touts its digital microphones as immune to radio-frequency and electromagnetic interference, an important consideration as wireless communications products proliferate. Bosch's North American unit acquired Akustica in 2009.

Transistor Devices, Inc. (TDI) is plugged in to the power needs of the computer industry. Founded in 1960, the company makes high-power, fault-tolerant, uninterruptible electronic power supplies and systems designed to prevent power loss in transportation equipment and computer data storage and telecommunications systems. Customers include companies in the aerospace, computer/networking, industrial, medical, military, and telecommunications industries. TDI operates mainly in the US, but it also has facilities in China, Ireland, and Mexico. Richard Blake, the company's founder, chairman, and CTO, controls TDI; the rest of the company is owned by officers and employees.

Chi Mei company is one of the world's largest makers of TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display) flat-panel displays. TFT-LCD panels -- small, lightweight, low-power, and high-resolution -- are used in notebook, desktop monitor, and TV applications. CMO also makes color filters, and is developing OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays. The company was launched in 1998, but really took off when it purchased a TFT-LCD fab (and licensed the related intellectual property) from IBM in 2001. Exports, primarily to Asia, make up about two-thirds of CMO's sales.

Insulectro was founded in 1991 and is owned by its officers. Insulectro supplies materials used to make printed circuit boards (PCBs) used to manufacture personal computers and other electronics. It carries copper-aluminum-copper foil (CAC), aluminum foil, dry film, epoxy laminates, and pressure sensitive (PSA) tapes, among other products. Insulectro manufactures some of its product line and distributes products made by such companies as DuPont, Isola, and Saint-Gobain. The company was founded in 1964 and has distribution locations across the US, including offices in Arizona, Illinois, and Texas, and its headquarters in Lake Forest, California.

Aavid Thermalloy, LLC (“Aavid”) is the world's leading supplier of thermal management solutions for a variety of applications. Aavid's products are used in Personal Computing applications such as desktops, laptops, printers, and console video game systems in addition to Non-PC applications including servers, network devices, instrumentation, transportation, and other consumer electronics. In 2008, Aavid created the Solar Product Group and started to develop and manufacture PV modules and tracker systems.Aavid has manufacturing facilities strategically located in North America, Europe, India and Asia and sales offices throughout the world. Aavid is unique by offering state-of-the-art engineering and design services to customers who value assistance in solving difficult and complex thermal management problems. These design services may be offered as part of a product solution or carried out on contract through specialized engineering and design centers throughout the world. Aavid partners closely with its customers early in the design phase of product development in order to assist with modeling and simulation and to develop innovative product solutions. Accordingly, Aavid's ability to provide a high-quality, reliable and comprehensive product and service offering on a global basis makes it the leader in the industry.

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