Segment And Geographic Information

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Segment And Geographic Information

Segment And Geographic Information

8. Segment and Geographic Information

The Company evaluates financial performance based on two business segments: Seismic and Thermal Solutions. The Seismic product lines currently consist of geophones and hydrophones, including multi-component geophones and hydrophones, seismic leader wire, geophone string connectors, seismic telemetry cable, high definition reservoir characterization products and services, marine seismic cable retrieval devices, data acquisition systems, offshore cables and industrial products. Thermal Solutions products include thermal printers, thermal printheads and dry thermal film and other media. The Company sells these products to a variety of markets, including the screen print, point of sale, signage and textile market sectors. The Company also sells Thermal Solutions products to its seismic customers.

The following table summarizes the Company's segment information (in thousands):

	Three Months Ended						Nine Months Ended
	June 30, 2011			June 30, 2010			June 30, 2011			June 30, 2010
Net sales:
Seismic	$	42,769		$	31,934		$	129,396		$	82,175
Thermal solutions		3,396			3,160			10,172			9,610
Corporate		203			198			597			604
Total	$	46,368		$	35,292		$	140,165		$	92,389
Income (loss) from operations:
Seismic	$	15,772		$	9,748		$	45,497		$	19,362
Thermal solutions		(287	)		43			(196	)		385
Corporate		(1,974	)		(2,101	)		(6,945	)		(6,081	)
Total	$	13,511		$	7,690		$	38,356		$	13,666