Description
Pulse Electronics Corp was incorporated in Pennsylvania on April 10, 1947. The Company is a producer of precision-engineered electronic components and modules. It operates its business in three segments: Network product group ("Network"), Power product group ("Power") and Wireless product group ("Wireless"). Network produces a variety of passive components that manage and regulate electronic signals for use in a variety of devices used in local area and wide area networks. These products operate by filtering out radio frequency interference, shaping waveforms, splitting signals, suppressing noise, matching impedances and other functions. These passive products are often referred to as connectors, filters, filtered connectors, transformers, splitters, micro-filters, baluns and chokes. Power primarily manufactures products that adjust and ensure proper current and voltage, limit distortion of voltage, sense and report current and voltage and cause mechanical movement or actuation. Power's products include power transformers, chokes, current and voltage sensors, ignition coils, automotive coils, military and aerospace products and other power magnetic products. Wireless manufactures products that primarily capture or transmit wireless communication signals. Specifically, its Wireless segment produces antennas, antenna modules and antenna mounting components that capture and transmit communication signals in handsets, other terminal and portable devices, automobiles and wireless-to-wireline access points. The primary raw materials necessary to manufacture all its segments' products include: base metals such as copper; ferrite cores; plastics and plastic resins; and rare earth metals. The Company's manufacturing operations are subject to a variety of local, state, federal and international environmental laws and regulations governing air emissions, wastewater discharges, the storage, use, handling, disposal and remediation of hazardous substances and, also, employee health and safety.