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Plasma-Therm manufactures equipment for the production of electronic chips for current and futuristic applications. A growing bright spot of high-value-added industry serving global markets, Plasma-Therm increasingly attracts technical and engineering talent to Tampa Bay even in today's rocky economy. About 75 percent of Plasma-Therm employees are college-educated and about 25 percent have post-graduate degrees, typically in materials or electrical engineering.

Sarasota Precision Engineering (SPE), located in Sarasota, began as an automotive and aerospace manufacturing company, and has opened a medical manufacturing division. The medical division offers customers medical device solutions, specializing in medical molding.

Progress Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 500 energy company with more than 22,000 megawatts of generation capacity and approximately $10 billion in annual revenues. Progress Energy includes two major electric utilities that serve about 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company has earned the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor in recognition of operational excellence, and was the first utility to receive the J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service. The company is pursuing a balanced strategy for a secure energy future, which includes aggressive energy-efficiency programs, investments in renewable energy technologies and a state-of-the-art electricity system. Progress Energy celebrated a century of service in 2008.

Oscor Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets a variety of highly specialized implantable cardiac pacing leads, venous access systems and diagnostic catheters. Oscor is also leveraging its proprietary lead technologies toward the development of new lead systems for a variety of cardiac and non-cardiac applications.

AAR Composites serves the military and domestic aerospace market with every type of composite fabrication process available today. Located in Clearwater, AAR Composites resides in a modern 65,000-square-foot facility that houses labs, manufacturing space, offices and design areas to  build composite structures from concept to production using autoclave cure, vacuum bag oven cure, resin transfer molding, compression molding and vacuum assisted resin transfer molding.

Tampa Bay Trane is Trane's Franchised Agent and the sole and exclusive representative of Trane Commercial Air Conditioning Products and Services on Florida's West Coast.

Fluitec provides lubricant users with condition monitoring technologies, contamination control solutions and consulting services around the globe. The company's technologies and expertise assist customers in meeting green initiatives by improving their operational efficiency and reducing their disposal streams.

Exactech, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, distributes and sells orthopedic implant devices, related surgical instrumentation and biologic services to hospitals and physicians in the United States and internationally.

The strategic objective of Micro Star Innovations is to expand the range of capabilities and manufacturing support for the automotive and medical customers now presently served by our corporate parents, Micro Stamping and Micro Medical Technologies.