Founded in 1978 in Grenchen , Switzerland as a producer of watch crystals, MICRO CRYSTAL has become the leading supplier of miniature quartz crystals for virtually every kind of electronic appliances. Today the three plants in Switzerland , Thailand and China with more than 850 employees produce several hundred million crystals per year. MICRO CRYSTAL, ISO 9001 certified since 1998, has the reputation as an extremely flexible and reliable source for quality frequency-control products.The entire production process is completely controlled by MICRO CRYSTAL, from the raw material, the photolithographic batch process to the finished and tested parts in SMD metal- or ceramic-packages.The high-precision photolithographic process enables MICRO CRYSTAL to produce sub-miniature tuning fork and high frequency AT-cut crystals covering a wide range from 10kHz to 250MHz. These products are used in a variety of markets including telecommunications, medical electronics, consumer, automotive, computer and watch industries.