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Property, Plant and Equipment

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Note 4 Property, Plant and Equipment

The following is a summary of the major classes of property, plant and equipment:

	September 30,

	2011			2012
Land and land improvements	$	6,024		$	6,415
Buildings		15,960			17,178
Machinery and equipment		141,442			154,670
Construction in process		6,329			17,355

		169,755			195,618
Less accumulated depreciation		(59,077	)		(70,966	)

	$	110,678		$	124,652

The Company has $875 of assets under a capital lease for equipment related to the service center operation in Shanghai, China.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and other types of furniture and equipment including, but not limited to, office equipment, furniture and fixtures, and computer equipment and software. This disclosure may include property plant and equipment accounting policies and methodology, a schedule of property, plant and equipment gross, additions, deletions, transfers and other changes, depreciation, depletion and amortization expense, net, accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization expense and useful lives, income statement disclosures, assets held for sale and public utility disclosures.

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