Capital Advanced Technologies is the result of a diverse electronics manufacturing and process background accumulated during the company's thirty-year history. The firm began as a manufacturer of high-quality printed circuit boards for both the commercial and military industries when it was founded in 1980. While Capital made a variety of boards, including single-sided, double-sided, and multilayer, The use and development of techniques and procedures that might improve the performance of the baseboard were given special attention. Capital boards at this time all offered hybridization of printed polymer thick film flooring, print resistors, capacitors, detectors, transducers, electroluminescent lighting, and a wide range of combined polymer thick film hybridizing and traditional printed circuit techniques.