Business Segment Information (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

Information concerning our business segments is as follows:



	Three Months Ended						Six Months Ended
	March 31, 2015			March 31, 2014			March 31, 2015			March 31, 2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Net Revenues:
Solar *	$	9,463		$	8,017		$	17,749		$	16,505
Semiconductor	12,088			2,271			12,820			6,346
Polishing	2,722			2,429			6,100			4,637
	$	24,273		$	12,717		$	36,669		$	27,488
Operating income (loss):
Solar *	$	(724	)	$	(4,133	)	$	(3,219	)	$	(4,326	)
Semiconductor	730			207			630			748
Polishing	601			550			1,343			968
Non-segment related	(2,543		)	(1,158		)	(5,482		)	(2,403		)
	$	(1,936	)	$	(4,534	)	$	(6,728	)	$	(5,013	)

* The financial statement of business units included in the Solar segment include some sales of equipment and parts to the semiconductor, silicon wafer and MEMS industries, comprising less than 25% of the Solar segment revenue.



	March 31, 2015		September 30, 2014
	(dollars in thousands)
Identifiable Assets:
Solar	$	67,669	$	56,858
Semiconductor	58,292		5,593
Polishing	5,887		6,253
Non-segment related	13,934		21,200
	$	145,782	$	89,904

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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