COMPANY HISTORY Cornell Dubilier Electric (CDE):

Cornell Dubilier is a privately held, American owned maker of capacitors for electronic and electrical equipment with three ISO-9001 registered facilities. If you didn't know that it was founded in 1909 by William Dubilier with his invention of the mica capacitor, you wouldn't suspect that Cornell Dubilier is the oldest capacitor maker in the Western Hemisphere because it is growing rapidly with a flurry of new products.

Cornell Dubilier's major capacitor types are aluminum electrolytic, polyester film, polypropylene film, mica, pulse, snubber, motor-run, motor-start and high voltage capacitors.

Emphasis is on serving the power electronics markets and providing not just reliable capacitors but capacitor solutions with great service.

A chronology of this, Cornell Dubilier's first hundred years is tabulated here:

1909: William Dubilier replaces Leyden jars with his invention of the mica capacitor for radio transmission.

1915: William Dubilier founds Dubilier Condenser Company in New York

1933: Dubilier Condenser Company merges with Cornell Radio to form Cornell-Dubilier Electric (CDE)

1936: Cornell-Dubilier opens the South Plainfield, NJ plant and introduces the first commercial aluminum electrolytic capacitors.

1940: New Bedford, MA plant opens and by 1950 CDE grows to be largest maker of AC, high voltage, mica and aluminum electrolytic capacitors.

1953: Acquires Radiart Corp., Cleveland making automobile radio vibrators,inverters, antennas and antenna rotors.

1955: Cornell-Dubilier opens Sanford, NC plant for aluminum electrolytic, film and wet tantalum capacitors.

1957: Cornell-Dubilier moves Radiart products to Fuquay Varina, NC and enters the relays market as a major supplier to the General Motors Corporation.

1967: Opens 60,000 square foot plant in Taipei, Taiwan to make mica and later, film capacitors.

1978: Cornell-Dubilier acquires the assets and facilities of the Electro Motive Corporation, a leading manufacturer of mica capacitors.

1979: The Reliance Electric Company (then a subsidiary of the Exxon Corporation) acquires Cornell-Dubilier Electric.

1983: A group of Cornell-Dubilier senior managers, headed by James Kaplan, purchases the company and forms Cornell Dubilier Electronics, Inc.

1984: Establishes the C.D. Electronica de Mexico S.A. de C.V. in Mexicali, Mexico as the manufacturing site for mica capacitors and RF/ID coils.

1987: Acquires the assets of the Components Division of Sangamo Weston in Pickens, SC from Schlumberger. The plant, a major maker of mica and aluminum electrolytic capacitors, becomes Cornell Dubilier Marketing.

1987: Under NASA contract, develops Strategic Defense Initiative laser pulse Star Wars capacitor with energy density of 1400 J/kg.

1991: Develops MLP flatpack, welded-seal capacitor for low profile power holdup: 50 year life, 25 year storage, 20 joules energy.

1992: Introduces KVx mica polymer capacitors: 150 kV, 200°C

1994: Develops MLS stainless flatpack, welded-seal capacitor: 125°C operation, 100 year life.

1995: Cornell Dubilier Marketing moves into a new 103,000 square foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Liberty, SC and expands to 140,400 square feet by 2004.

1996: All Cornell Dubilier plants registered to ISO-9001

2001: Corporate headquarters moves from New Jersey to new 3900 square foot addition to Liberty plant.

2002: Acquires the distributor division of NACC Mallory Products Group in April and increases sales through distribution to greater than 40%.

2002: Acquires the aluminum electrolytic capacitors plant of BC Components, Inc., Columbia, SC in December. Becomes largest NA supplier of screw-terminal aluminum electrolytic capacitors.

2004: Acquires York Capacitor Corporation of Winooski, VT in February, a leading maker of AC capacitors for motor run, lighting and power factor correction applications.

2004: Acquires the assets of the Silvered Electronic Mica Co. (Semco) in December, a leading maker of RF mica capacitors.

2005: M level MIL approval for CLR79/81 wet tantalum capacitors

2005: For the first time the company's largest customer is in Asia. Cornell Dubilier becomes major supplier of screw-terminal aluminum electrolytics to Far East.

2006: R level MIL approval for CLR79/81 wet tantalum capacitors; only 2 other suppliers at this level.