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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
 
Dynamic Materials Corporation (“DMC”) was incorporated in the state of Colorado in 1971 and reincorporated in the state of Delaware during 1997. DMC is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado and has manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany, France, Canada and Russia.  Customers are located throughout the world. DMC currently operates under three business segments. We recently branded our Explosive Metalworking operations under the single name NobelClad. Our NobelClad segment is comprised of our U.S. Clad operations as well as the assets and operations purchased in the Nobelclad Europe S.A. (“Nobelclad France”) and Dynaplat GmbH and Co. KG (“Dynaplat”) acquisitions. The NobelClad segment metallurgically joins or alters metals by using explosives. We recently branded our Oilfield Products segment as DynaEnergetics, which is comprised entirely of DYNAenergetics GmbH and Co. KG (“DYNAenergetics”), its subsidiaries and sister companies. DynaEnergetics manufactures, markets, and sells oil field perforating equipment and explosives. Our third segment, formerly AMK Welding, was branded as AMK Technical Services and utilizes a number of welding technologies to weld components for manufacturers of jet engines, ground-based turbines and oilfield equipment.

2012 Acquisition
 
On January 3, 2012, we acquired the assets and operating business of Texas-based TRX Industries, Inc. (“TRX”), a manufacturer of perforating guns for our DynaEnergetics segment.  TRX, which has now been integrated into DYNAenergetics US, had been a long-term supplier to DYNAenergetics US and, in recent years, accounted for a rapidly growing percentage of its perforating gun purchases.  Our statements of operations include the effect of the TRX acquisition from the January 3, 2012 closing date.  See Note 3 for additional disclosures regarding this acquisition.