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American Vanguard

American Vanguard is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, AMVAC Chemical Corporation (AMVAC), the company is primarily a specialty chemical manufacturer that develops and markets products for agricultural, commercial and consumer uses. The company manufactures and formulates chemicals for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. These chemicals, which include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, growth regulators, and soil fumigants, are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms. AMVAC primarily synthesizes, formulates, and distributes its own proprietary products or custom manufactures or formulates for others.

BioLife Solutions Inc

BioLife Solutions develops, manufactures and markets biopreservation tools for cells and tissues. The company's product offerings include proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media products for cells, tissues, and organs; generic blood stem cell freezing and cell thawing media products; and custom product formulation and custom packaging services. The company's clinical grade HypoThermosol? FRS and CryoStor? biopreservation media products are marketed to the regenerative medicine, biobanking, and drug discovery markets. The company's customers include cell and gene therapy companies, research institutions, hospital-based stem cell transplant centers, and pharmaceutical companies.

Corteva Inc

Corteva is a provider of seed and crop protection solutions focused on the agriculture industry. The company's operations are managed through two reportable segments: seed and crop protection. The seed segment develops and supplies commercial seed combining germplasm with traits to produce higher yield potential for farmers around the world. The crop protection segment serves the global agricultural input industry with products that protect against weeds, insects and other pests, and disease, and that improve overall crop health both above and below ground via nitrogen management and seed-applied technologies.

Diodes Incorporated

Diodes is a manufacturer and supplier of application-specific standard products. The company's product line includes: discrete semiconductor products, which include performance Schottky rectifiers, performance Schottky diodes, Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes; analog products, which include power management devices; standard logic products including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing these products; and Frequency Control Products, which are electronic components that provide frequency references.

Enphase Energy Inc.

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells home energy solutions that connect energy generation, energy storage and control and communications management on one platform. The company's semiconductor-based microinverter converts energy at the individual solar module level and, combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control. The Enphase Home Energy Solution with IQ consists of four primary components: Enphase microinverters, the AC Battery?, an Envoy gateway, and Enlighten cloud-based software.

FMC Corporation

FMC is an agricultural sciences company. The company provides solutions to growers around the world with a product portfolio fueled by a discovery and development pipeline in crop protection, plant health, and personnel pest and turf management. This combination of technologies includes insect control products based on Rynaxypyr? and Cyazypyr? active ingredients; Authority?, Boral?, Centium?, Command? and Gamit? branded herbicides; Talstar? and Hero? insecticides; and flutriafol-based fungicides. The company's products are used in agriculture to improve crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds and disease, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.

Gates Industrial Corp

General Mills Inc.

General Mills manufactures and markets branded consumer foods. The company's segments are: North America Retail, which provides cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, dessert and baking mixes, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, grain, fruit and savory snacks, and organic products, among others; Convenience Stores and Foodservice, which provides snacks, yogurt, frozen meals and frozen dough products, and baking mixes, among others; Europe and Australia, which includes retail and foodservice businesses in the Europe and Australia region; Asia and Latin America, which consists of retail and foodservice businesses in the Asia and South America regions; and Pets, which includes pet food products.

Harmonic

Harmonic provides video delivery software, products, system solutions and services that enable its customers to create, prepare, store, playout and deliver a range of broadcast and over-the-top video services to consumer devices. The company has two segments, Video and Cable Access. The Video business sells video processing and production and playout solutions and services worldwide to cable operators and satellite and telecommunications (telco) pay-TV service providers, which it refers to collectively as service providers. The Cable Access business sells cable access solutions and related services, including its CableOS software-based cable access solution, primarily to cable operators globally.

ICU Medical Inc.

ICU Medical is an infusion therapy company with a range of product portfolio that includes intravenous (IV) solutions, IV smart pumps, dedicated and nondedicated IV sets and needle free connectors, along with pain management and safety software technology. In addition, the company manufactures automated pharmacy IV compounding systems. The company's product lines include: Infusion Consumables; Infusion Systems, which include infusion pump hardware, IV mediation safety software, and rofessional pservices; IV Solutions, which include IV therapy and diluents and irrigation; and Critical Care, which help clinicians get real-time access to patients' hemodynamic and cardiac status.

Impinj Inc.

Impinj enables wireless connectivity for everyday items, delivering each items' identity, location and authenticity to business and consumer applications. The company's platform comprises endpoint integrated circuits, or ICs, connectivity and software that together deliver item data to business and consumer applications. The company's platform spans endpoints, connectivity and software and provides wireless item connectivity and information delivery. The company sells endpoint ICs, reader ICs, reader modules, readers, gateways and software as well as provides development, service and license agreements.

Keros Therapeutics

Kraft Heinz Company

Kraft Heinz is a food and beverage company. The company manufactures and markets food and beverage products, including condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, and other grocery products throughout the world. The company has three reportable segments defined by geographic region: United States, Canada, and Europe, Middle East, and Africa. The company's remaining businesses are combined and disclosed as Rest of World. Rest of World comprises two operating segments: Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Lithium Americas Corp

Lithium Americas is a Canadian based resource company focused on the development of two lithium projects, the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project, located in Jujuy province, Argentina, and the Lithium Nevada project, located in north-western Nevada, U.S.A. In addition, Co. is a supplier of specialty drilling additives, Hectatone™ and other organoclay products for the oil and gas and other industries.

Merit Medical Systems Inc.

Merit Medical Systems manufactures and markets proprietary disposable medical devices used in interventional, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, particularly in cardiology, radiology, oncology, critical care and endoscopy. The company conducts its business through two segments: Cardiovascular, which includes its Peripheral Intervention, Cardiac Intervention, Cardiovascular and Critical Care, Interventional Oncology and Spine and Breast Cancer Localization and Guidance product groups; and Endoscopy, which provides non-vascular stents to treat gastrointestinal and pulmonary disease including AERO?, AEROmini? and AERO DV? Fully Covered Tracheobronchial Stents and Alimaxx-B? Biliary Stent Systems.

Newmont Corporation

Newmont is primarily a gold producer with operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Ghana. The company is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead and zinc. The company's operations are organized in five geographic regions; North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Nevada.

Odel PLC

PIEDMONT LITHIUM INC

ResMed Inc.

ResMed is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing of medical devices and cloud-based software solutions that diagnose, treat and manage respiratory disorders including sleep disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, neuromuscular disease and other chronic diseases. The company has two operating segments: Sleep and Respiratory Care and Software-as-a-Solutions. The company's portfolio of products includes devices, diagnostic products, mask systems, headgear and other accessories, dental devices, portable oxygen concentrators and cloud-based software informatics solutions.

Revance Therapeutics Inc.

Revance Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of neuromodulators for multiple aesthetic and therapeutic indications. The company focuses on developing daxibotulinumtoxinA, its purified botulinum toxin Type A, for a spectrum of aesthetic and therapeutic indications, including facial wrinkles, muscle disorders, and chronic migraine. The company's main drug candidate is DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection. The company also is developing a topically applied neuromodulator for aesthetic and therapeutic indications, DaxibotulinumtoxinA Topical, and have a collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize a biosimilar to BOTOX?.

Sealed Air Corporation

Sealed Air is a global provider of packaging solutions for the food, e-Commerce, electronics and industrial markets. The company serves an array of end markets including food and beverage processing, food service, retail, commercial and consumer applications, by providing food safety and security, product protection and equipment. The company's segments include: Food Care, which serves perishable food processors, predominantly in chilled, smoked and processed meat, poultry and dairy-solid markets worldwide, and maintains positions in target applications; and Product Care, in which its solutions are designed to protect goods in shipping.

Sensata Technologies Holding PLC

Sensata Technologies Holding is a holding company. Co. conducts its business through subsidiary companies, which operate business and product development centers in the U.S., the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the U. K.; and manufacturing operations in China, Malaysia, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. Co. is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of sensors and controls. Co. produces a range of sensors and controls for applications such as pressure sensors in automotive systems, and thermal circuit breakers in aircraft, among others. Co.'s operations has two businesses, Performance Sensing and Sensing Solutions.

Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Silicon Laboratories is a provider of silicon, software and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. The company provides analog-intensive, mixed-signal solutions for use in a variety of electronic products in a range of applications for the IoT including connected home and security, industrial automation and control, smart metering, smart lighting, commercial building automation, consumer electronics, asset tracking and medical instrumentation. The company provides a range of timing and isolation products for infrastructure applications including clocks and oscillators for networking equipment, and data centers.

SolarEdge Technologies Inc.

SolarEdge Technologies designs, develops, and sells an intelligent inverter solution designed for power generation at the individual photovoltaic module level. The company's products consist mainly of power optimizers designed to maximize energy throughput from each and every module via constant tracking of Maximum Power Point individually per module; inverters, which invert direct current from the PV module to alternating current; a related cloud-based monitoring platform; and a storage solution that is used to increase energy independence and maximize self-consumption for homeowners by utilizing a battery that is sold separately by third party manufacturers, to store and supply power as needed.

Sony Corp. (ADS)

Staar Surgical Co.

STAAR Surgical designs, develops, manufactures, and sells implantable lenses for the eye and delivery systems used to deliver the lenses into the eye. The company is a manufacturer of lenses used worldwide in corrective or refractive surgery. The company's principal products are implantable Collamer lenses (ICLs) used in refractive surgery and intraocular lenses (IOLs) used in cataract surgery. ICLs, consisting of the company's ICL family of products, including the Toric implantable Collamer lenses and EVO+ Visian ICL, are intraocular lenses used to correct refractive conditions. IOLs are prosthetic intraocular lenses used to restore vision that has been affected by cataracts.

Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a provider of medical technology products. The company primarily designs, develops, manufactures and supplies single-use medical devices used by hospitals and healthcare providers for common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in critical care and surgical applications. The company's product categories within its geographic segments include vascular access, which provides devices that facilitate a variety of critical care therapies and other applications; anesthesia, which comprised of airway and pain management product lines; and interventional, which consist of a variety of coronary catheters, structural heart therapies, and peripheral intervention products.

Transmedics Group

TransMedics is a commercial-stage medical technology company transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients across multiple disease states. The company developed the Organ Care System ("OCS") to replace a decades-old standard of care. The OCS represents a paradigm shift that transforms organ preservation for transplantation from a static state to a dynamic environment that enables new capabilities, including organ optimization and assessment. The company's OCS technology replicates many aspects of the organ's natural living and functioning environment outside of the human body.

TREACE MED CONCEPTS INC

Triumph Group Inc.

Triumph Group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a portfolio of aerospace and defense systems, components, and structures. The company provides its products and services through three segments: Triumph Integrated Systems, which is engaged in the design, development and support of proprietary components, subsystems and systems, as well as production of assemblies using external designs; Triumph Aerospace Structures, whose companies supply commercial, business, regional and military manufacturers with metallic and composite structures and produce close-tolerance parts; and Triumph Product Support, whose companies provide solutions for commercial, regional and military aircraft.

Valmont Industries Inc.

Valmont Industries is a global producer of fabricated metal products. The company's segments are: Engineered Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures steel, aluminum, and composite poles and structures to which lighting and traffic control fixtures are attached for a range of outdoor lighting applications; Utility Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures tapered steel, pre-stressed concrete and hybrid structures, and steel lattice structures; Coatings, which provides the following services, including hot-dipped galvanizing, anodizing, powder coating, and e-coating; and Irrigation, which manufactures and distributes mechanical irrigation equipment and related service parts.

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