Note 14 - Business Segment, Geographic and Quarterly Financial Data

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Notes to Financial Statements

Segment Reporting Disclosure [Text Block]

14.

     BUSINESS SEGMENT, GEOGRAPHIC AND QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA

Business Segment Financial Data

We segregate our financial results into

two

reportable segments representing

two

broad technology segments as follows:

• The Air Pollution Control technology segment includes technologies to reduce NOx emissions in flue gas from boilers, incinerators, furnaces and other stationary combustion sources. These include Low and Ultra Low NOx Burners (LNB and ULNB), Over-Fire Air (OFA) systems, NOxOUT ® and HERT™ Selective Non-Catalytic Reduction (SNCR) systems, and Advanced Selective Catalytic Reduction (ASCR ™ ) systems. Our ASCR systems include ULNB, OFA, and SNCR components, along with a downsized SCR catalyst, Ammonia Injection Grid (AIG), and Graduated Straightening Grid GSG™ systems to provide high NOx reductions at significantly lower capital and operating costs than conventional SCR systems. The NOxOUT CASCADE ® and NOxOUT-SCR ® processes are more basic, using just SNCR and SCR catalyst components. ULTRA ® technology creates ammonia at a plant site using safe urea for use with any SCR application. Flue Gas Conditioning systems are chemical injection systems offered in markets outside the U.S. and Canada to enhance electrostatic precipitator and fabric filter performance in controlling particulate emissions.

• The FUEL CHEM ® technology segment, which uses chemical processes in combination with advanced CFD and CKM boiler modeling, for the control of slagging, fouling, corrosion, opacity and other sulfur trioxide-related issues in furnaces and boilers through the addition of chemicals into the furnace using TIFI ® Targeted In-Furnace Injection™ technology.

The “Other” classification includes those profit and loss items

not

allocated to either reportable segment. There are

no

inter-segment sales that require elimination.

We evaluate performance and allocate resources based on gross margin by reportable segment. The accounting policies of the reportable segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies. We do

not

review assets by reportable segment, but rather, in aggregate for the Company as a whole.

Information about reporting segment net sales and gross margin from continuing operations are provided below:

For the year ended December 31, 2020	Air Pollution Control Segment			FUEL CHEM Segment			Other			Total
Revenues from external customers	$	8,557		$	13,993		$	—		$	22,550
Cost of sales		(4,583	)		(7,329	)		—			(11,912	)
Gross margin		3,974			6,664			—			10,638
Selling, general and administrative		—			—			(13,600	)		(13,600	)
Restructuring charge		—			—			—			—
Research and development		—			—			(1,177	)		(1,177	)
Intangible assets abandonment		—			—			(197	)		(197	)
Operating income (loss) from continuing operations	$	3,974		$	6,664		$	(14,974	)	$	(4,336	)

For the year ended December 31, 2019	Air Pollution Control Segment			FUEL CHEM Segment			Other			Total
Revenues from external customers	$	14,082		$	16,385		$	—		$	30,467
Cost of sales		(11,256	)		(8,381	)		—			(19,637	)
Gross margin		2,826			8,004			—			10,830
Selling, general and administrative		—			—			(17,191	)		(17,191	)
Restructuring charge		(625	)		—			—			(625	)
Research and development		—			—			(1,127	)		(1,127	)
Intangible assets abandonment		—			—			(127	)		(127	)
Operating income (loss) from continuing operations	$	2,201		$	8,004		$	(18,445	)	$	(8,240	)

Geographic Segment Financial Data

Information concerning our operations by geographic area is provided below. Revenues are attributed to countries based on the location of the customer. Assets are those directly associated with operations of the geographic area.

For the years ended December 31,	2020		2019
Revenues:
United States	$	18,622	$	25,882
Foreign		3,928		4,585
	$	22,550	$	30,467

As of December 31,	2020		2019
Assets:
United States	$	24,524	$	23,460
Foreign		5,564		8,764
	$	30,088	$	32,224