Sockets for ICs, Transistors

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- The qualified partner for manufacturing, procurement and marketing of connectors, individual solutions and customer designed cable assemblies. Company Development Since 1969Today - founded in 1969 - ASSMANN WSW Components has grown into a world-wide operating specialist of electro-mechanical components, thermal management products and computer network accessories. Service To Our CustomersASSMANN WSW Components is one of the most important enterprise of Logistics-services for the Electronics industry and for the specialized trade distribution. ASSMANN's professionalism covers it competent development and manufacturing as well. This includes its own global network for purchasing and trading and is the basic for its logistics Management of high performance. Continuous Quality ControlAll our products have meet the ASSMANN Quality Test. ASSMANN WSW Components is certified under DIN EN ISO 9001:2000. In 2003 ASSMANN WSW Components put into action an environmental management system in accordance to DIN EN ISO 14001. We do business only with certified contractors.

- 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.