The contract manufacturer of quick-turn printed circuit boards (PCBs) and prototypes is known for offering interesting incentives to customers, including dinner gift certificates for referrals. Engineering students can receive sponsorships for projects and low cost prototypes. The company offers lead-free solder finishing on all prototype boards. Customers have included NASA, Displaytech, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Microfabrica. Advanced Circuits was founded in 1989. Compass Equity Group financed a management buyout of the company in 2005.

Elektron company provides electronic components to industrial, utility, transport, mechanical, and commercial customers worldwide. The company's US-based Arcolectric unit manufactures and sells appliance switches, fuseholders, and indicator lights. Elektron's UK-based subsidiary, Bulgin Components, offers products including industrial connecters, fuseholders, switches, mains filters, and battery holders. Elektron has divested several other units to focus on these core operations.

TB Wood's Corporation company was founded in 1857 and is headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. As of April 2, 2007, TB Woods Corp. is a subsidiary of Altra Industrial Motion, Inc. TB Wood’s Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets electronic and mechanical industrial power transmission products. Its mechanical industrial power transmission products include V-belt drives, synchronous drives, variable speed drives, and a line of flexible couplings, as well as hydrostatic drives, clutches, and brakes. These products are used in a variety of industrial applications to transmit power from electric motors and internal combustion engines to machines. The primary markets for these products are the construction, oilfield, specialized industrial machinery, food processing, material handling, pumps, compressors, mining, pulp and paper and agricultural equipment industries. The company’s electronic industrial power transmission products comprise of integrated electronic drive systems.TB Wood's Corporation products are used to control the speed, acceleration, and other operating characteristics of electric motors in manufacturing processes. Its integrated electronic drive systems integrates AC electronic VFDs, programmable logic controllers, in-house custom designed printed circuit boards, and software. The company’s electronic products are used in water pumping, food and beverage processing, materials handling, HVAC, oil production, textile and fibers, packaging, furniture making, and general machinery applications. It has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and India. TB Wood’s Corporation sells its products to distributors, domestic and international original equipment manufacturers, and end users of industrial equipment through independent and multi-branch industrial distributors, as well as directly to original equipment manufacturers.

Pixelplus Co., Ltd. is engaged in designing, developing and marketing complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for use in mobile camera phones and other applications, such as personal computers (PC) cameras and security and surveillance systems. The Company’s image sensors are used to capture and convert images into digital signals for display or transmission. The Company focuses on creating design technologies to develop and market image sensors with sharp, colorful, image quality, size efficiency and low power consumption, while outsourcing its manufacturing, testing and assembly requirements to independent companies.

Compal has relied on professional management and strong R&D to grow to its present scale. Today Compal is one of the world leading manufacturers of computer notebooks, its display products are well known for high quality, and it steadily expands into Automotive Electronics products and Digital Consumer Electronics field. To offer fast and flexible service, Compal has established branches in the PRC, the U.S., Brazil and Poland.Working together, coordinated by the parent Worldwide Logistics Group, have enabled Compal to become known throughout the industry as a leader in computer and IT products.Compal’s corporate headquarters include its administrative and management divisions, its marketing department, sourcing centers and finance, as well as its R&D groups. Here, each project is completed in a step-by-step fashion, executed by seasoned teams with nearly two decades of experience in product research and development. Supported by fast and efficient in-house communications, backed by investment in the latest technologies. In fact, Compal’s R&D capability is the key factor that it can easily win customers’ trust. With more than 3,900 highly-skilled technical staff, Compal can meet any technical challenge in developing computer and information-related products.Compal has learned that a product’s competitiveness is based on quality, cost and on-time delivery. Experienced in forming in-house R&D groups for a varied list of customers – no matter whether their product be computer notebooks, LCD TV or other newly emerging Automotive Electronics products and Digital Consumer Electronics products – Compal can quickly respond to design changes necessitated by a fast changing marketplace. In addition, with its innovative products and creativity, Compal has applied and been granted many patents worldwide.

X-FAB Sarawak (formerly 1st Silicon) marks the spot for semiconductor contract manufacturing in Malaysia. X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. company, which was founded in 1998, offers semiconductor foundry (contract manufacturing) services, including design, mask making, fabrication, sorting, packaging, and testing. It expanded its operations into Japan in 2005 with a sales office in Yokohama. X-FAB Sarawak Sdn. Bhd. company's wafer fabrication facility (or fab) makes semiconductors on silicon wafers measuring 200mm (about 8 inches) across, and can produce more than 27,000 wafers per month. Customers include Atmel and Sharp. Multinational chip maker X-FAB Silicon Foundries acquired 1st Silicon in September 2006 and renamed the company.

STR Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1944 and is based in Enfield, Connecticut. STR Holdings LLC (Holidngs) is engaged in solar power module encapsulant manufacturing and consumer product quality assurance. Its solar business provides encapsulants, which are specialty extruded sheets and film, which hold the solar module together and protect the semiconductor circuit of a solar panel. Encapsulants are a critical component used in solar modules. Holdings’ quality assurance business provides testing services exclusively focused on the consumer products market. The Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, STR Acquisition, Inc. (STR Acquisition) were created to acquire Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STRI) and its subsidiaries. STRI was acquired on June 15, 2007 through a transaction with STR Acquisition, which was accomplished through the merger of STR Acquisition with and into STRI with STRI being the surviving corporation.

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.

Hammond Power Solutions Inc. (HPS) was established in 1917 and has continued to grow as the North American stand-alone leader for the design and manufacture of high quality custom electrical dry-type transformers and related engineered magnetic devices. The company is also a significant producer of standard products that are built to industry wide specifications. HPS excels at designing products that have very specific size and power constraints for many demanding applications. Having an extensive engineering resource, HPS offers the broadest range of electrical products in the industry and as a result, the company has grown in many diverse markets and provides services to many global leaders.

Micronic Laser Systems AB engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of a series of laser pattern generators for the production of photo-masks, a principal component of the microlithography process in Sweden. Its product line includes semiconductor, display, and electronic packaging products. In the semiconductor market, the company operates as a supplier that offers the market a whole new technology for producing semiconductor chips. Markets The primary markets for the company’s laser pattern generators are the display and semiconductor industries; and Multi Purpose systems. The company’s major geographic markets include China, Taiwan, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan. Products The Company manufactures systems that are used in the production of advanced photo-masks for flat panel displays (the lrs product series), semiconductor applications (the Sigma and Omega product series), and electronic packaging (the mp product series). The product offering also includes metrology systems for display photo-masks (the mms product series). Pattern generators for display photo-masks LRS series All of the systems in the LRS series are used to produce advanced photo-masks for flat panel displays, primarily for the manufacture of tft-lcds. The LRS - 11000-tft3 provides twice the resolution of Micronic’s earlier generation tft pattern generator, the LRS11000- tft2. The lrs11000-tft2 is also used for tft-lcd and color filter photomasks. The LRS15000 series has a larger stage, 1,300 x 1,500 mm, which is approximately sufficient for generation 7 tft-lcd photo-masks. The lrs15000- tft2 is used primarily to produce photo-masks for lcd-tvs, while the lrs15000-tft3 is designed for the most advanced tft-lcd photo-masks. Metrology systems for TFT-LCD photo-masks MMS15000 The MMS15000 system is used to verify pattern placement accuracy on area tft-lcd photo-masks. The system has a registration measurement accuracy of better than 100 nanometers and is capable of performing measurements on photo-masks as 1,300 x 1,500 mm. Pattern generators for semiconductor photo-masks Sigma7300 The Sigma7300 is a duv (Deep Ultra Violet) optical pattern generator based on spatial light modulator (slm) technology, and offers a combination of high resolution and short write time.

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