In 1987 president and CEO Ed Swartz founded Static Control Components, Inc., which is owned and operated by his family. Static Control Components, Inc. company that made a name for itself by selling anti-static products has made an even greater impression by selling parts for rebuilt toner cartridges. Its Imaging Division, which sells parts to recycle used printer cartridges, has captured more than half of the world market. SCC also makes electrical testing tools. In 2006 Static Control Components sold its SCC Products affiliate to 3M.

BgenuineTec Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. BgenuineTec Inc. engages in the development and sale of fingerprint authentication products and security solutions based on fingerprint authentication technology. The company provides biometric certification and authentication services, physical access systems, fingerprint image sensors, and related software. It offers solutions, such as fingerprint authentication algorithm, which is useful in mobile phones and PDAs; BgenuineTec PC Security that allows the user to set up and use the system for authentication, password management, and data and file encryption; BgenuineTec technology, which helps the users to block certain Internet sites for children or limit access to a family's online bank accounts; and BgenuineTec business solutions, a combination of hardware, software, and services designed to streamline office processes and enhance business efficiency. The company operates primarily in Japan. It was formerly known as Secure Design KK and changed its name to BgenuineTec Inc. as a result of its business focus shift to new products based on technology.

Elcoteq SE is a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company in the communications technology field. Elcoteq’s global service offering covers the entire lifecycle of products, from product development to after-market services. By further combining mechanics expertise into its service offering, Elcoteq’s vision is to be a leading integrated electronics manufacturing services (IEMS) company.Elcoteq provides global end-to-end solutions consisting of product development services, supply chain management, NPI, manufacturing, and after market services for the whole lifecycle of its customers' products. These products include Consumer Electronics products such as mobile and wireless phones, their parts and accessories, set-top boxes, flat panel TVs and other consumer products as well as System Solutions products such as wireless and wireline infrastructure systems and modules, enterprise network products and other industrial segment products.

Infineon Technologies AG company is a top maker of chips carrying a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) -- the industry's Fort Knox -- used in computers to guard documents. Infineon makes semiconductors for a myriad of microelectronic ends. Its lineup includes standard commodity components and a variety of custom devices for memory, analog, digital, and mixed-signal uses. Operations target chip card and security markets, as well as wireless, automotive, and industrial. (The company sold its wireline communications assets in 2009.) Former parent Siemens is one of Infineon's major customers. Nearly half of the company's sales are won in Asia/Pacific.

Unitech Battery manufactures and markets rechargeable lithium ion, lithium polymer, nickel cadmium, and nickel metal hydride batteries used in mobile phones, cordless phones, power tools, radio-controlled toys, medical equipment, emergency lighting, and bar code scanners. It also makes chargers for its batteries. Unitech produces some 600,000 pieces a day, including 350,000 Ni-MH batteries, 230,000 Ni-CD batteries, and 20,000 Li-ion/Li-polymer batteries, along with 1,500 chargers. The company has offices, manufacturing facilities, and research centers in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macao, and Shenzhen. Unitech Battery started making batteries and chargers in 1999.

Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, provides interconnect devices for storage, computing and networking backplane, and interconnect applications in the United States and internationally. The company’s products include FocalPoint, which includes Ethernet switch/router chips; ControlPoint Software Suite that comprises Ethernet bridging, switching, and routing software modules; and PivotPoint SPI-4.2 Interconnect Chip that provides interconnection packet and protocol processing resources on a line card. It serves the original equipment manufacturers. Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc., formerly known as Asynchronous Digital Design, was founded in 2000 and is based in Calabasas, California.

Sonepar USA, Inc., along with its subsidiaries, distributes electrical supplies in the United States. It offers electrical supplies and datacomm telecommunication products for contractor, industrial, MRO, original equipment manufacturers, and commercial markets. The company also provides electrical services. It offers its products through a network of distributors. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sonepar USA, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Sonepar S.A.

National Semiconductor Corporation was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. National Semiconductor Corporation is a semiconductor company focused on analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems, particularly in the area of power management. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets analog-intensive solutions that improve performance and energy efficiency in electronic systems. It has a diversified product portfolio, which includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, communication interface products and data conversion solutions. During the fiscal year ended May 31, 2009 (fiscal 2009), approximately 91% of the Company’s revenue was generated from Analog segment products. During fiscal 2009, the Company reorganized its product line operations by consolidating the former two-group structure (Power Management and the Signal Path Groups) into one group called the Product Group. In March 2009, National Semiconductor Corporation acquired ActSolar, Inc.

SunPower Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of solar electric power technologies. The company operates in two segments, Components and Systems. The Components segment sells solar power products, including solar cells, solar panels, and inverters, which convert sunlight to electricity for the utility networks serving installers and resellers for use in residential and commercial applications. It also sells products for use in multi-megawatt solar power plant applications. The Systems segment offers power systems and system technologies, which include development, engineering, and procurement of permits and equipment, as well as construction management, access to financing, monitoring, and maintenance services. This segment serves commercial and governmental entities, investors, utilities, production home builders, and home owners. It has solar power system projects in various countries, including Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, and the United States. This segment also sells distributed rooftop and ground-mounted solar power systems, and central-station power plants. SunPower Corporation offers its products and services through a network of dealers primarily in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company was incorporated in 1985 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. SunPower Corporation (NasdaqGS: SPWR.A) operates independently of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as of September 22, 2008.

Firan Technology Group (FTG) is all fired up about making high-reliability electronic components for critical applications in military and aerospace equipment. The company's FTG Circuits unit makes complex printed circuit boards from advanced materials; these components are used in applications such as avionics that call for high reliability. FTG Circuits also offers related manufacturing services. Meanwhile, the company makes luminescent cockpit display panels and keyboards through its FTG Aerospace division. In late 2007 the company bought the assets of Filtran Microcircuits from Merrimac Industries for about C$1.8 million.

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