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Diversified technologies sets CTS apart from other component manufacturers. Highly specialized and often proprietary, company engineers and technicians use their vast knowledge and technological skills to design and produce components of the highest quality, reliability and value for global customers.  Proof of CTS' strong technological advantage is found in its broad patent portfolio, encompassing over 350 unique and diversified product and process patents worldwide.

• Ceramics: Ceramic materials are extremely versatile and can be used in many different ways in the electronics industry. Conductive and resistive materials can be printed on a ceramic base, creating resistive and resistive/capacitive control circuits. Ceramics are also used to produce radio frequency (RF) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filtering devices.
   
• Cermet: A combination of metal and ceramic materials fused at high temperatures, creating resistance elements that are stable, reliable and adaptable to the miniaturization trend that is critical to the continued future of electronic components.
   
• Electromagnetics: Magnetic fields generated by electrical currents flowing through coiled wire is used to convert electricity into motion; the basis of electromagnetic actuators.
   
• Magnetics: Using Hall Effect technology, which generates a proportionate voltage from a moving magnetic field, CTS produces numerous non-contacting position sensors for vehicle markets. These sensors are high in reliability and performance.
   
• Piezoelectric Materials: Piezoelectric technology makes use of the natural properties of selected quartz and ceramic materials to produce an electrical charge when compressed. The opposite is also true—when a voltage is applied these materials will oscillate at a resonate frequency. The material’s narrow frequency response makes them excellent for generating very accurate frequency references. This technology finds numerous applications in equipment for defense and aerospace, industrial, medical diagnostics, sonic/sonar and many hand-held devices.
   
• Resistive and Conductive Inks: Utilized in a variety of sensors, potentiometers, resistive networks and microcircuits, proprietary resistive and conductive inks are fundamental in many CTS components. Custom formulations ensure CTS resistive components exceed all customer requirements and specifications.
   
• Highly Automated Assembly Capabilities: CTS Corporation utilizes a vast array of precise, highly automated and certified manufacturing systems to produce products of consistent quality that meet or exceed the strictest standards and customer requirements.