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Since the company’s establishment in 1932, Amphenol Corporation has become a major manufacturer of electronic connectors, fiber optic connectors, cable systems, and interconnect systems. Headquartered in Wallingford, Connecticut, Amphenol Corporation first started out producing tube sockets for radio tubes. It was not until World War II that the company was recognized a leader in the connector industry as Amphenol Corporation became the principal producer of connectors used in military hardware. In present day, Amphenol Corporation is a worldwide manufacturer that serves consumers, businesses, and OEMs in a variety of industries such as automotive, broadband, IT, industrial, medical, and military alike. Their massive product line varies from CATV connectors to HD-optyx to PT/LC connector assemblies. Amphenol Corporation has also been a producer of world first products such as the inventions of the MIL-DTL-38999 cylindrical connector and the BNC connector. The U.S. Military regularly awards Amphenol Corporation with defense contracts to support the Air Force, Navy, and the Army. In 2012, the U.S. Military awarded Amphenol Corporation over 9 government defense contracts with a total combined award amount of over $1,000,000.

TE Connectivity, Ltd. is an electronic component designer and manufacture located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 2007 after Tyco International was split, resulting in two major companies, Tyco Electronic Ltd. and Covidien to become separate entities. The publically traded company Tyco Electronics Ltd. was renamed to TE Connectivity on March 10, 2011. Traded on the NYSE and S&P 500, TE Connectivity serves over 150 countries with 100,000 employees and has met yearly revenues of over $14 Billion.

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, or DuPont, is an enormous American company, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. With $35.7 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2013 and approximately 70,000 employees, DuPont is the third largest chemical company in the world manufacturing with seven primary business segments: agriculture (32% of sales), performance chemicals (19%), performance materials (18%), safety & protection (11%), nutrition & health (10%), industrial biosciences (3%), and electronics & communications (7%).

Panasonic Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers in the electronics, semiconductor, and home appliance industries. Established in 1918 and Headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan, the publically traded company has since become a worldwide name brand in a variety of electronic products. With competitors such as Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Canon, Panasonic has still been able to remain competitive in the industry meeting over $75 billion in yearly revenue.

The company’s history of innovation runs still deeper. In 1911, Kettering invented the first viable electric starter, derived from a cash register motor, which were used by Cadillac in 1912. In 1915, he invented the Delco-Light, a portable internal combustion power and light generator intended for those without access to the electrical grid system. In 1918, General Motors acquired United Motors Company which contained Delco, among other manufacturers. In 1985, GM merged Delco Electronics with Hughes Aircraft to form Hughes Electronics Corporation as an independent subsidiary. In 1930, Delco developed the Cold Carburetion System, an auto carburetion system functioning as both a standard carburetor and a fuel injection system. In 1956, the company invented a transistorized hybrid signal-seeking car radio using both vacuum tubes and transistors in its circuitry.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas and incorporated in 1959, Diodes Inc. is a global manufacturer of a vast array of application specific standard electronics, including diodes, rectifiers, transistors, MOSFETs (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors), protection devices, functional specific arrays, single gate logic, amplifiers and comparators, Hall-effect and temperature sensors; power management devices, including LED drivers, AC/DC converters and controllers, DC/DC switching and linear voltage regulators, and voltage references; and specialty devices including USB power switches, load switches, voltage supervisors, and motor controllers.

Working out of Everett, Washington, Fluke Electronics is a prominent manufacturer of industrial testing equipment. The company provides testing and troubleshooting solutions to the manufacturing and service industries with every new office, retail operation, bank, hospital, or manufacturing facility being a potential client for Fluke. Fluke Electronics was founded in 1948 by John Fluke—a former General Electric employee and former roommate of David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard. Since 1998, Fluke has been operating as the Test & Measurement Division of Washington, D.C.-based Danaher Corporation. Field applications of Fluke Electronics technologies include:

Delta Electronics, based in Beverly, Massachusetts, was established in 1955 and remains a family-owned business – passed down for three generations. The company specializes in RF (radio frequency), microwave, and millimeter wave connectors for a number of applications, including communications, military, avionics, wireless LAN, RFID, medical, and microwave devices (amplifiers, switches, filters, isolators, circulators, and power dividers).

Based in Plain-view, New York, Aeroflex is a global manufacturer of radio frequency (RF) and microwave integrated circuits for the telecommunications, avionics, military, and medical markets. Founded in 1937, Aeroflex employs a team of 2700 workers across 16 facilities, 650 of whom are engineers dedicated to research and development. In May 2014, Aeroflex was acquired by British firm Cobham plc for US$11.46 billion. For the fiscal year 2013, Aeroflex operated with a backlog worth US$259 million. Roughly 28% of Aeroflex’s sales come from federal agencies.

Headquartered in Georgetown, Texas, AirBorn, Inc. is a leading producer of electronic connectors for the military, aerospace, civil aviation, and medical markets. Certified to ISO 9001, AS9100, and ISO 13485 specifications, AirBorn got its start in 1960 by manufacturing interconnect products for important legacy companies like Motorola, Texas Instruments, Lockheed Aircraft, Boeing, and Burroughs.AirBorn’s array of cable and board-mount connectors includes the following series: