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COMSOL
The COMSOL Group provides the software solution for creating computer models of multiphysics applications and are a fast growing high-tech engineering software company with a proven track record and a vision as a future leader in the finite element analysis (FEA) industry.
Ellsworth Adhesives
Ellsworth Adhesives is the world’s largest distributor of industrial adhesives and sealants. Specializing in Electronic, Aerospace, Transportation, Appliance, Medical Device, and Industrial Product Assembly, Ellsworth represents most major material suppliers including Dow Corning, Loctite, 3M, Hysol, Dymax, Sika, Devcon, Cytec, Bostik, Lord, and Emerson & Cuming.
IBM
IBM delivers innovative, powerful, open High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to address your demands for intense computation, research and engineering, plus manipulation and management of massive amounts of data.
Ironwood Electronics
Ironwood Electronics creates innovative VLSI interconnect solutions for Design and Development Engineers. Ironwood offers the most comprehensive line of sockets and adapters for prototyping, testing, and production applications. The quality is unsurpassed.
Master Bond, Inc.
Master Bond Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high performance adhesives, sealants, coatings, potting and encapsulation compounds and impregnation resins. Our line of products consists of epoxies, polyurethanes, silicones, acrylics, polyamides and latex systems.
Minco
Minco designs and manufactures Thermofoil™ flexible heaters, flex circuits, sensors and instruments for critical applications worldwide. The company is unsurpassed in its ability to design and assemble these products into a single integrated component so customers can achieve the highest degree of functional and packaging efficiency.
Molded Fiber Glass Companies
From modest beginnings in 1948 in Ashtabula, Ohio, MFG has grown to an international presence in the field of composites manufacturing. Today the company is a thriving enterprise that includes 15 entities throughout the United States and Mexico.
National Instruments
National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide each year.
NuSil Technology
NuSil is a leading formulator of silicone compounds for aerospace, healthcare, electronics and other applications requiring precise, predictable, cost-effective materials performance. ISO-9001 certified since 1994, NuSil operates state-of-the-art laboratories and processing facilities in California, Texas and Sophia Antipolis, France.
Reid Supply
Reid Supply Company has been serving Customers as a global industrial parts supplier for over 60 years. Although we have all the parts you need, we believe that it is our commitment to providing the absolute best Customer Service available that will keep you coming back. Reid is real people doing really great work for you, order after order.
Sunstone Circuits
The Sunstone Circuits team started in the printed circuit boards business in 1972 with a commitment to providing total customer satisfaction
ZC&R Coatings
ZC&R is fully equipped to provide in-house coating design, comprehensive testing, and production in low, high, and OEM quantities. Our custom designed 32" vacuum coating chambers insure the highest quality coatings. Our 64" vacuum chambers can coat substrates up to 24" in diameter. All chambers utilize electron beam guns and precise optical monitoring for consistency.
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