at knowles corporation, we’ve achieved excellence in our industry for more than 65 years. we strive to continuously reinvent our industry and make products more powerful than before. our products and solutions help our customers find more ways to put better technology to work for their customers. we are a market leader and global supplier of advanced micro-acoustic, specialty components, and human interface solutions in the mobile communications, consumer electronics, medical technology, military/space and other industrial end markets. our deep experience and rigorous testing delivers consistently dependable and precise products including hearing aid components, mems (micro-electro-mechanical systems) microphones, speakers, receivers, transducers, capacitors, oscillators and more. we have always, and continue to, make waves in the industry by introducing disruptive communication technologies such as the world’s first miniature microphone and receiver for hearing aids in 1954, the f