SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company's financial segment reporting reflects an organizational alignment intended to leverage the Company's unique portfolio of capabilities to create value for its customers by developing mission-critical solutions to maximize manufacturing yields and enable higher performance of devices. While these segments have separate products and technical know-how, they share a global generalist sales force, common business systems and processes, technology centers, and strategic and technology roadmaps. The Company leverages its expertise from these three segments to create new and increasingly integrated solutions for its customers. The Company's business is reported in the following segments:


•	Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM): SCEM provides high-performance and high-purity process chemistries, gases, and materials and safe and efficient delivery systems to support semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing processes.


•	Microcontamination Control (MC): MC solutions purify critical liquid chemistries and gases used in semiconductor manufacturing processes and other high-technology industries.


•	Advanced Materials Handling (AMH): AMH develops solutions to monitor, protect, transport, and deliver critical liquid chemistries and substrates for a broad set of applications in the semiconductor industry and other high-technology industries.

Inter-segment sales are not significant. Segment profit is defined as net sales less direct segment operating expenses, excluding certain unallocated expenses, consisting mainly of general and administrative costs for the Company’s human resources, finance and information technology functions as well as interest expense, amortization of intangible assets, income taxes and equity in net loss of affiliate.

Corporate assets consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, deferred tax assets and deferred tax charges.

Summarized financial information for the Company’s reportable segments is shown in the following tables.



(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Net sales:
SCEM	$	485,470	$	428,328	$	418,878
MC	436,225		362,658		315,817
AMH	420,837		384,284		346,426
Total net sales	$	1,342,532	$	1,175,270	$	1,081,121
(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Segment profit:
SCEM	$	132,859	$	96,060	$	100,370
MC	160,715		110,042		83,076
AMH	77,971		73,452		66,419
Total segment profit	$	371,545	$	279,554	$	249,865
(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Total assets:
SCEM	$	749,379	$	766,126	$	801,250
MC	251,216		200,399		183,518
AMH	278,079		267,085		259,377
Corporate	697,498		465,922		402,552
Total assets	$	1,976,172	$	1,699,532	$	1,646,697



(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Depreciation and amortization:
SCEM	$	65,559	$	64,062	$	65,352
MC	12,881		9,222		8,733
AMH	20,167		22,874		23,604
Corporate	3,624		3,728		3,965
Total depreciation and amortization	$	102,231	$	99,886	$	101,654

(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Capital expenditures:
SCEM	$	41,216	$	27,348	$	29,333
MC	24,909		6,281		11,408
AMH	16,078		19,029		23,617
Corporate	11,394		12,602		7,619
Total capital expenditures	$	93,597	$	65,260	$	71,977

The following table reconciles total segment profit to income before income taxes and equity in net loss of affiliate:



(In thousands)	2017			2016			2015
Total segment profit	$	371,545		$	279,554		$	249,865
Less:
Amortization of intangibles	44,023			44,263			47,349
Unallocated general and administrative expenses	85,705			79,755			84,448
Operating income	241,817			155,536			118,068
Interest expense	32,343			36,846			38,667
Interest income	(715		)	(318		)	(429		)
Other expense (income), net	25,458			(991		)	(12,355		)
Income before income tax expense and equity in net loss of affiliate	$	184,731		$	119,999		$	92,185

The following table presents amortization of intangibles for each of the Company’s segments for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015:



(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Amortization of intangibles:
SCEM	$	38,836	$	40,034	$	42,909
MC	881		—		—
AMH	4,306		4,229		4,440
Total amortization of intangibles	$	44,023	$	44,263	$	47,349

The following table summarizes total net sales, based upon the country or region to which sales to external customers were made for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015:



(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Net sales:
Taiwan	$	289,714	$	291,309	$	248,842
United States	286,339		253,868		253,141
South Korea	216,868		145,661		148,016
Japan	169,480		156,021		131,336
China	148,890		118,435		97,148
Europe	120,481		105,779		106,036
Southeast Asia	110,760		104,197		96,602
	$	1,342,532	$	1,175,270	$	1,081,121

The following table summarizes property, plant and equipment, net, attributed to significant countries for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015:



(In thousands)	2017		2016		2015
Property, plant and equipment:
United States	$	257,584	$	226,394	$	229,558
South Korea	39,562		33,441		32,400
Japan	23,648		25,248		23,619
Malaysia	19,212		19,180		19,878
Taiwan	16,073		14,151		11,333
Other	3,444		3,148		4,513
	$	359,523	$	321,562	$	321,301

In the years ended December 31, 2017, 2016 and 2015, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited, accounted for $167.9 million, $161.9 million and $134.1 million of net sales, respectively, all of which include sales from all of the Company's segments. In addition, in the year ended December 31, 2017, Samsung Electronics Co. accounted for $140.6 million of net sales which include sales from all of the Company's segments.