Sockets for ICs, Transistors

- 3M offers innovative solutions to the electronics industry and is a leading manufacturer of interconnect solutions for board-to-board, wire-to-board, backplane and input/output (I/O) applications. These include 3M™ Wiremount Insulation Displacement Contact (IDC) Connectors, Mini Delta Ribbon (MDR) I/O System, Mini-Clamp Discrete Wire System, MetPak™ High Speed Hard Metric (HSHM) and the new Ultra Hard Metric (UHM) Backplane Connectors. Using industry leading capabilities in CAD - such as NX™ and SLA modeling - 3M's experienced engineers turn ideas into real world solutions. 3M offers solutions for printed circuit board fabrication, board assembly and test, such as adhesives and tapes, embedded capacitor materials, Textool™ Test and Burn-in Sockets, carrier and cover tapes and trays, flexible circuits, and products for reducing electrostatic discharge. 3M also offers solutions for shielding from EMI/RFI, for thermal management and vibration damping, as well as for packaging and labeling. For more information on 3M's involvement with the electronics industry, visit www.3M.com/electronics. For interconnect solutions, visit www.3Mconnector.com. 3M, MetPak and Textool are trademarks of 3M Company. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

- Mill-Max Mfg. Corp., located at 190 Pine Hollow Road, Oyster Bay, NY 11771, is a vertically integrated engineering and manufacturing company capable of producing over 100 million interconnect components a week, making us the largest manufacturer of precision machined interconnect components in North America. Established in 1971 by Roger Bahnik, Chairman and CEO, Mill-Max has a tradition of exercising total control from raw materials to finished product. Our 150,000 square foot plant houses all facilities including: engineering, tooling, primary and secondary machining, stamping, gold and tin plating, injection molding, automatic assembly operations and strict process control, monitored by our experienced Quality Control Inspectors.

- Aries is the recognized leading manufacturer of Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) Test Sockets for DIP, PGA, PLCC and SOIC sockets, and continues to be a significant source for a wide variety of specialty electronic connectors. Our corporate objective is to continue to grow within the electronic packaging area, further establishing our position as a major international connector manufacturer.

- On-Shore Technology, Inc. (OST) founded in 1988, headquarters in Tempe, Arizona, is a leading international supplier of interconnect products to the computer, automotive and telecommunications industries. OST offers customers a variety of over six thousand products. The most popular of these include miniature terminal blocks, sockets, custom cables, PGA's and other interconnect products. Our technological expertise and emphasis on service has enabled OST to provide quality products to some of the largest and most demanding companies in the world.

- Preci-Dip packs unequaled expertise into cutting-edge interconnect components. Leveraging advanced designs, and top materials, with incomparable Swiss precision,Preci-Dip’s precision tools and contact assembly machines are developed, designed, and produced with passion and expertise. These experts put the principle of vertical single-site command structure put into practice - monitoring each step from raw material to finished product.