Write Down of Long-Lived Assets	9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Write Down of Long-Lived Assets.
Write Down of Long-Lived Assets	Note 4. Write Down of Long-Lived Assets During the third quarter of fiscal year 2013, the Company incurred impairment charges totaling $3.1 million related to the Tantalum Business Group (“Tantalum”). The Company is restructuring its Evora, Portugal manufacturing operations, which is expected to be completed during the quarter ending March 31, 2014. As a part of our ongoing commitment to expand our polymer capacity, the Company will be moving certain Tantalum manufacturing operations from the Evora, Portugal facility to a manufacturing facility in Mexico and the equipment in Portugal will be disposed. The Company has used an income approach to estimate the fair value of the assets to be disposed. The impairment charge is recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations line item “Write down of long-lived assets” in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, in connection with the consolidation of two manufacturing facilities within Italy, the Company incurred impairment charges totaling $4.2 million related to the Film and Electrolytic Business Group (“Film and Electrolytic”).The Company obtained appraisals for each of these facilities indicating there was a decrease in the market price of the manufacturing facilities, and therefore, the carrying amounts for these manufacturing facilities were reviewed for recoverability. It was determined that the carrying amounts of the manufacturing facilities were not recoverable since they exceeded the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the asset (asset group). The impairment was measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of a long-lived asset (asset group) exceeded its fair value. The Company utilized the market approach to estimate fair value of the long-lived asset group. The impairment charge is recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations line item “Write down of long-lived assets” in the nine month period ended December 31, 2012.

Note 4. Write Down of Long-Lived Assets

During the third quarter of fiscal year 2013, the Company incurred impairment charges totaling $3.1 million related to the Tantalum Business Group (“Tantalum”). The Company is restructuring its Evora, Portugal manufacturing operations, which is expected to be completed during the quarter ending March 31, 2014. As a part of our ongoing commitment to expand our polymer capacity, the Company will be moving certain Tantalum manufacturing operations from the Evora, Portugal facility to a manufacturing facility in Mexico and the equipment in Portugal will be disposed. The Company has used an income approach to estimate the fair value of the assets to be disposed. The impairment charge is recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations line item “Write down of long-lived assets” in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013.

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2013, in connection with the consolidation of two manufacturing facilities within Italy, the Company incurred impairment charges totaling $4.2 million related to the Film and Electrolytic Business Group (“Film and Electrolytic”).The Company obtained appraisals for each of these facilities indicating there was a decrease in the market price of the manufacturing facilities, and therefore, the carrying amounts for these manufacturing facilities were reviewed for recoverability. It was determined that the carrying amounts of the manufacturing facilities were not recoverable since they exceeded the sum of the undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use and eventual disposition of the asset (asset group). The impairment was measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of a long-lived asset (asset group) exceeded its fair value. The Company utilized the market approach to estimate fair value of the long-lived asset group. The impairment charge is recorded on the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations line item “Write down of long-lived assets” in the nine month period ended December 31, 2012.