Amphenol Corporation was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1932. The company’s very first product was a mass-produced tube socket for radio tubes. From these humble beginnings, Amphenol has become a publically-traded company with $5.2 billion in expected revenue for 2014. With headquarters in Wallingford, Connecticut, the company has facilities in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa and has a global network of sales offices and distributors.Amphenol’s interconnect products reach a diversity of markets including: automotive, broadband communications, commercial aerospace, industrial, information technology and data communications (the company’s largest market), military, mobile devices, and mobile networks. Some milestones in Amphenol’s legacy include: the innovative Blue Ribbon connectors and cable assemblies which became a Bell System Standard, the 26500 connector used in Boeing’s revolutionary 707, their space-hardened connectors used in the United States’ Apollo Mission to the moon, and their mobile device technology used in some of the world’s first cellular phones. Read more >>

Anderson Greenwood was established in 1947 in Houston, Texas. The company manufactures high pressure relief valves (both performance pilot operated and direct spring operated) and other specialty products (including instrumentation valves, manifolds, safety selector valves and tank blanketing regulators). Used in applications including offshore oil & gas production, gas processing, refinement, and petrochemical and chemical processing, Anderson Greenwood is a premier supplier of a wide range of D/P (differential pressure) instruments.In 1986, Anderson Greenwood was purchased by Keystone International which was acquired by Tyco Flow Control in 1997. As a subsidiary of Tyco, Anderson Greenwood merged with Crosby to form Anderson Greenwood Crosby, the name by which the company currently goes by. Read more >>

Founded in 1976 and based in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Celtech Corporation specializes in designing and manufacturing Mil IM (military intermediate) jet and turboprop mobile engine test stands, including electronic systems and integration. Additionally, Celtech designs and fabricates complex rocket engine automatic test sets, auto-tuning RF aperture coupled triple coaxial cavities, and software intensive data acquisition systems.In 1997, the company acquired Space Corporation to further its ventures into this field. Read more >>

AMI Industries specializes in the development, production, and servicing of emergency evacuation systems, seating systems, life rafts and training equipment, and literature pockets for commercial aircrafts. Based in Colorado, the company was incorporated in 1987. The company was previously a subsidiary of Goodrich Corporation’s Interiors division under Special Seating Systems. Read more >>

Belkin International, Inc. is an electronics manufacturer, specializing in connectivity devices. Established in 1983 in Hawthorne, California, Belkin is currently a private company with approximately 1,200 employees and operations in 21 countries worldwide. Besides an extensive product offering for individual consumers, Belkin has a division, Belkin Business (based in Playa Vista, California), which provides solutions for commercial environments. This division develops technology for customers ranging from OEMs to government entities to businesses.Belkin OEM offers turnkey and custom products in areas such as: wired and wireless networking, high-speed data and AV connectivity, secure KVM, soft goods, product ruggedization, and home automation. Read more >>