Bethlehem Apparatus Co

ABB is one of the leading suppliers of industrial robots in Warminster, Pa. The company also provides robot software, peripheral equipment, modular manufacturing cells and service for tasks, such as welding, handling, assembly, painting, finishing, picking, packing, palletizing and machine tending. The company serves a variety of markets, including automotive, plastics, metal fabrication, foundry, electronics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries. ABB has installed more than 150,000 robots worldwide. In addition, the company s ABB Lummus Global, designs and supplies production facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants. ABB is a part of the ABB Group of companies that operates in around 100 countries and employs more than 109,000 people.

DuPont, established in 1802 as an explosives company, offers a wide range of products for markets, including food and nutrition, health care, apparel, safety and security, construction, electronics, and transportation. The company s agriculture and nutrition segment offers hybrid seed corn and soybean seed, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and soy protein. Its coatings and color technologies segment provides automotive finishes, industrial coatings and white pigments. The firm s electronic and communication technologies segment offers fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, photopolymers and electronic materials. The performance materials segment provides engineering polymers, packaging and industrial polymers, films, and elastomers. The safety and protection segment provides specialty and industrial chemicals, nonwovens, aramids, and solid surfaces. Charles O. Holliday Jr. has been the chief executive officer of EI du Pont de Nemours for more than eight years. He has been with the diversified chemical company for over 36 years. Holliday earned a BSIE from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. DuPont is a Fortune 500 company, and is headquartered in Wilmington, Del. It operates more than 40 research and development and customer service laboratories in the United States, and over 35 laboratories in other countries.

Established in 1924, Cargille-Sacher Laboratories provides specialized services to a broad range of laboratory sciences. It develops and manufactures optical liquids calibrated for refractive indices. It also serves as a member of the United States delegation and helps in writing the ISO specifications for immersion oils in conjunction with microscope manufacturers, experts and users worldwide. The laboratory s other major products include laser liquids, mounting medias, optical gels, fused silica matching liquids, comminuted optical glass, viscosity tubes and beakers. Located in Cedra Grove, N.J., Cargille-Sacher Laboratories maintains a Web site that features a catalogue request form and product order sheet. It also offers links to other industry resources.