Write Down of Long Lived Assets (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Write Down of Long Lived Assets [Abstract]

Disclosure of Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Table Text Block]

Write Down of Long-Lived Assets

In fiscal year 2013, the Company initiated a restructuring plan for its Evora, Portugal manufacturing operations. As a part of ongoing restructuring activities, the Company has relocated certain Tantalum manufacturing operations from the Evora, Portugal facility to a manufacturing facility in Mexico and the remaining Tantalum equipment in Portugal will be disposed. During the third quarter of fiscal year 2014, Solid Capacitors incurred impairment charges totaling $2.8 million due to a decrease in forecasted units manufactured in Portugal because production was relocated to Mexico sooner than originally planned. The Company used an income approach to estimate the fair value of the assets to be disposed. In addition, during the third quarter of fiscal year 2014, the Company incurred impairment charges totaling $0.6 million related to the Film and Electrolytic which were related to idle manufacturing equipment in a manufacturing facility in Italy. The impairment charges are recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations line item “Write down of long-lived assets” in the nine month period endedDecember 31, 2013.