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.

Stoneway Electric Supply believes the electrical supplies you need should not be more than a stone's throw away. The employee-owned company distributes electrical products and other industrial supplies, including wire and cable, fuses, transformers, fans, conduits and fittings, enclosures, lamps, ladders, and tools. Customers include contractors, government agencies, resellers, and OEMs. The list of suppliers that Stoneway Electric works with includes Acme Electric, Philips, General Electric, 3M Company, Fluke, and Acuity Brands' Lithonia Lighting. Stoneway Electric has about 15 branches located in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Chloride company makes power protection products, such as uninterruptible power systems (UPS), that provide power protection to critical systems in the information technology, telecommunications, and financial services industries. Chloride's patented LIFE.net (Long distance Insurance for Energy) system allows the company's service centers to monitor clients' power usage remotely and to detect any abnormalities that arise. Customers include BP, Barclays, IKEA, IBM, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and Total. Chloride gets more than two-thirds of its sales in Europe.

Ovonyx was founded in 1999 by Tyler Lowrey and Ward Parkinson. Ovonyx has developed designs for a new type of technology used in non-volatile memory chips. The technology is known as Ovonic Unified Memory (OUM), or phase-change memory (PCM), and it is meant to supplant flash memory devices in consumer electronics. The company has licensing and development agreements with several chip makers, including BAE Systems, Elpida Memory, Hynix Semiconductor, Nanochip, Samsung Electronics, and STMicroelectronics. Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), which originally developed the memory technology, owns about 40% of Ovonyx. CEO Lowrey, Intel, and other investors own the rest of the company.

Electro Industries/GaugeTech changed the face of power monitoring forever with its first breakthrough innovation: an affordable, easy-to-use AC power meter. Electro Industries/GaugeTech, the Leader In Power Monitoring and Control, continues to revolutionize the industry with the highest quality, cutting edge power monitoring and control technology on the market today. An ISO 9001:2000 certified company, EIG sets the industry standard for advanced power quality and reporting, revenue metering and substation data acquisition and control. EIG’s products can be found on site at virtually all of today’s leading manufacturers, industrial giants and utilities.

Meade Instruments Corp., a consumer optics company, designs, manufactures, imports, and distributes telescopes, telescope accessories, binoculars, spotting scopes, and other consumer optical products principally in North America and Europe. The company offers its products under the Meade and Coronado brands. Its products include LX200 series of telescopes that combine LX200 with the precision of advanced coma free optics; the LX90GPS, which provides GPS capabilities to Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope; and the Deep Sky Imager series of charge-coupled device cameras. The company primarily serves the beginning, intermediate, and serious amateur astronomers. It sells its products through a network of mail order and Internet dealers, specialty retailers, distributors, and mass merchandisers. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Instron can tell you if your material is strong. Instron makes instruments, systems, and software for testing the mechanical properties and performance of ceramics, composites, metals, plastics, rubber, and textiles. Instron's static systems measure the amount of continuous force needed to deform a material. Its dynamic systems simulate in-use conditions over time by stretching, compressing, and twisting materials and components such as automotive steering systems. Other products include durometers and hardness testing systems.

Foveon makes photographic light-sensing chips for digital cameras. The X3 direct image sensor is manufactured using a CMOS fabrication process, which is widely employed in the semiconductor industry. The X3 name comes from the three layers of pixels embedded in the silicon, each of which records a different color -- red on the bottom layer, green in the middle, and blue on top. The X3 is found in Polaroid, Sigma, and Toshiba camera models. Co-founded in 1997 by legendary chip engineer Carver Mead, the company is backed by National Semiconductor and Synaptics, among other investors. Foveon was the subject of a book published in 2005, The Silicon Eye, written by famed technology newsletter editor George Gilder.

Enhance Electronics is a leading manufacturer of Switching Power Supply since 1986. Enhance deliver technology leadership, global operation excellence and outstanding customer support. Enhance products are used in a wide spectrum of application such as desktop PC, Internet Appliance Server, NAS/SAN, Network and Telecommunication Instrumentations.Enhance strength is to be responsible to meet customer needs and reduce total ownership cost. As our business commitment, we offer an unparalleled level of service and technical support. To ensure our product performance, we work with industrial leaders such as Intel and AMD to approve our products to meet design guideline prior mass production. With ISO 9001 and ISO 14000 certified facility and professional quality control system, Enhance always deliver the highest quality products in the industry.

KEMET Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures tantalum, multilayer ceramic, film, electrolytic, paper, and solid aluminum capacitors. It supplies its products to electronics original equipment manufacturers, electronics manufacturing services providers, and electronics distributors. The companys products are used in audio systems, tire pressure monitoring systems, power train electronics, instrumentation, airbag systems, anti-lock braking systems, electronic engine controls, air conditioning controls, and security systems in automotive industry; and copiers, point-of-sale terminals, and fax machines in business equipment industry. Its products are also used in cellular phones, telephones, switching equipment, relays, base stations, and wireless infrastructure in communications industry; and personal computers, workstations, mainframes, computer peripheral equipment, power supplies, disk drives, printers, and local area networks in computer-related industry. In addition, the company offers its products for use in electronic controls, measurement equipment, instrumentation, solar and wind energy generation, and medical electronics to industrial market; DVD players, MP3 players, game consoles, LCD televisions, global positioning systems, and digital still cameras to consumer industry; avionics, radar, guidance systems, and satellite communications to military/aerospace industry; and wind generation systems, solar generation systems, geothermal generation systems, tidal generation systems, and electric drive vehicles to alternative energy industry.

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