Based in Fremont, California, Calogic, LLC is a specialized design and manufacturing house of analog semiconductors. Established in 1983, Calogic is ROHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliant and ISO 9001:2008 certified to produce Bipolar Junction Isolated (JI) and Dielectrically Isolated (DI) products for the power management, telecommunications, computer, instrumentation, and medical markets. Situated in the Silicon Valley, Calogic utilizes silicon gate technology to build the following discrete devices and switch arrays:

The headlines have been recently dominated by news of unrest in Ukraine, beginning with the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Friction has escalated even further with fighting breaking out in Eastern Ukraine between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed up separatists. The catalyst was the mistaken shoot-down of a Malaysian airlines commercial jetliner over Ukraine which has resulted in international condemnation.

In August of 1997, Mconnell Douglas merged with Boeing to create the world’s largest integrated aerospace company. The Boeing Company, which had been the world’s largest in commercial aircraft manufacturing, bought McDonnell Douglas Corporation in a stock swap worth $13.3 billion. Along with Boeing’s 1996 acquisition of Rockwell International Corp.’s aerospace and defense unit, this move further bolstered Boeing’s ventures into the military defense sphere.

Hamilton Standard, formed in 1929 via the consolidation of Hamilton Aero Manufacturing and Standard Steel Propeller into Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation, was a supplier of aircraft propellers. They were the largest supplier of aircraft propellers in the world. Other companies in this corporation included the likes of Boeing, Sikorsky, and Pratt & Whitney. Three years prior, in 1926, Sundstrand Corporation was founded via a merger of the Rockford Tool Company and Rockford Milling Machine Company.

AirBorn Inc., although not a Fortune 500 company or universally known company by any means, is a very well-known manufacturing company within its industry, especially when it comes to any client that uses connectors and connector products regularly. AirBorn offers thousands of connector products that are used in the following industries:

Vishay Intertechnology was founded in 1962 by Dr. Felix Zandman, named after his ancestral village in Luthuania in memory of his family members who passed away during the Holocaust. The company started out very modestly by developing foil resistors and foil resistance strain gages. However, by 1985, they had grown into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of these products, foil resistors and strain gages.

In 1924, science historian and civic leader Bern Dibner founded Burndy Engineering Company, a name which was based on the contraction of his first name and last initial. Dr. Dibner, during his time as an engineer working on the electrical system in Cuba, realized the need to improve methods of connecting electrical conductors and also to join power system substations. As such, Dr. Dibner successfully designed a universal connector that enabled a unified grid.

Joseph O. Eaton, Henning O. Taube, and Viggo V. Torbenson incorporated Torbensen Gear and Axle Co in New Jersey in 1911 in order to manufacturer Torbensen’s patented internal-gear truck axle. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions over the years in the automotive industry, the company eventually became known as Eaton Corporation.