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Segments and Foreign Operations
12 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2013
Segments and Foreign Operations
(16) Segments and Foreign Operations


The Company is a global solutions provider to the world of essential natural resources – water, minerals and energy. Management defines the Company’s operational and organizational structure into discrete divisions based on its primary product lines. Each division comprises a combination of individual district offices, which primarily offer similar types of services and serve similar types of markets. Although individual offices within a division may periodically perform services normally provided by another division, the results of those services are recorded in the offices’ own division. For example, if a Mineral Exploration Division office performed water well drilling services, the revenues would be recorded in the Mineral Exploration Division rather than the Water Resources Division.
 
The Company’s segments are defined as follows:
 
Water Resources Division
 
Our Water Resources Division provides our customers with every aspect of water supply system development and technology, including hydrologic design and construction, source of supply exploration, well and intake construction and well and pump rehabilitation. The division also brings new technologies to the water and wastewater markets and offers water treatment equipment engineering services, providing systems for the treatment of regulated and “nuisance” contaminants, specifically, iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, arsenic, radium, nitrate, perchlorate, and volatile organic compounds. The Water Resources Division provides water systems and services in most regions of the U.S.
 
Inliner Division
 
Our Inliner Division provides a wide range of process, sanitary and storm water rehabilitation solutions to municipalities and industrial customers dealing with aging infrastructure needs. We focus on our proprietary Inliner® cured-in-place pipe (“CIPP”) which allows us to rehabilitate aging sanitary sewer, storm water and process water infrastructure to provide structural rebuilding as well as infiltration and inflow reduction. Our trenchless technology minimizes environmental impact and reduces or eliminates surface and social disruption. We are somewhat unique in that the technology itself, the liner tube manufacturer and the largest installer of the Inliner CIPP technology are all housed within our family of companies. While we focus on our proprietary Inliner CIPP, we are committed to full system renewal.  We also provide a wide variety of other rehabilitative methods including Janssen structural renewal for service lateral connections and mainlines, slip lining, traditional excavation and replacement, U-Liner high-density polyethylene fold and form and manhole renewal with cementitious and epoxy products. The Inliner Division provides services in most regions of the U.S.
 
Heavy Civil Division
 
Our Heavy Civil Division delivers sustainable solutions to government agencies and industrial clients by overseeing the design and construction of water and wastewater treatment plants and pipeline installation.  In addition, Heavy Civil builds radial collector wells (Ranney Method), surface water intakes, pumping stations, hard rock tunnels and marine construction services – all in support of the world’s water infrastructure. Beyond water solutions, our Heavy Civil Division also designs and constructs biogas facilities (anaerobic digesters) for the purpose of generating and capturing methane gas, an emerging renewable energy resource. The Heavy Civil Division provides services in most regions of the U.S.
 
Geoconstruction Division
 
We provide specialized geotechnical foundation construction services to the heavy civil, industrial, commercial and private construction markets around the globe.  We have the expertise and equipment to provide the most appropriate deep foundation system, ground improvement and earth support solution to be applied given highly variable geological and site conditions. In addition, we offer extensive experience in successful completion of complex and schedule-driven major underground construction projects. We provide services that are focused primarily on the foundation systems for dams/levees, tunnel shafts, utility systems, subways or transportation systems, commercial building and port facilities. Services offered include jet grouting, structural diaphragm and slurry cutoff walls, cement and chemical grouting, drilled piles, ground improvement and earth retention systems. The Geoconstruction Division provides services in most regions of the U.S., as well as Brazil and Uruguay. 
 
Mineral Exploration Division
 
Our Mineral Exploration Division conducts primarily aboveground drilling activities, including all phases of core drilling, reverse circulation, dual tube, hammer and rotary air-blast methods. Our service offerings include both exploratory (‘greenfield’) and definition (‘brownfield’) drilling. Global mining companies hire us to extract samples from their sites that they analyze for mineral content before investing heavily in development to extract the minerals. We help our clients determine if a minable mineral deposit exists on the site, the economic viability of mining the site and the geological properties of the ground, which helps in the determination of mine planning. Our primary markets are in the western U.S., Mexico, Australia, Brazil and Africa. We also have ownership interests in foreign affiliates operating in Latin America that form our primary presence in this market.
 
Other
 
Other includes our Layne Energy Services initiative of expanding water related services to the energy markets and any other specialty operations not included in one of the other divisions.
 
Financial information for the Company’s segments is presented below. Unallocated corporate expenses primarily consist of general and administrative functions performed on a company-wide basis and benefiting all segments. These costs include accounting, financial reporting, internal audit, treasury, corporate and securities law, tax compliance, executive management and board of directors. Corporate assets are all assets of the Company not directly associated with a segment, and consist primarily of cash and deferred income taxes.
 
   
Years Ended January 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2013
   
2012
   
2011
 
Revenues
                 
Water Resources
  $ 278,529     $ 274,556     $ 248,907  
Inliner
    133,256       132,108       116,566  
Heavy Civil
    278,131       343,760       353,304  
Geoconstruction
    133,247       89,210       77,969  
Water Infrastructure Group
    823,163       839,634       796,746  
Mineral Exploration
    246,582       268,909       199,946  
Other
    5,879       4,215       3,213  
Total revenues
  $ 1,075,624     $ 1,112,758     $ 999,905  
                         
Equity in earnings of affiliates
                 
Geoconstruction
  $ 3,872     $ 3,345     $ 517  
Mineral Exploration
    16,700       21,302       12,636  
Total equity in earnings of affiliates
  $ 20,572     $ 24,647     $ 13,153  
                         
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes
 
Water Resources
  $ 4,426     $ (5,967 )   $ 17,377  
Inliner
    9,936       (13,236 )     9,426  
Heavy Civil
    (32,308 )     (61,649 )     9,637  
Geoconstruction
    517       12,828       11,708  
Water Infrastructure Group
    (17,429 )     (68,024 )     48,148  
Mineral Exploration
    45,969       62,259       34,947  
Other
    (7,445 )     (4,520 )     (400 )
Unallocated corporate expenses
    (36,009 )     (30,866 )     (30,224 )
Interest expense
    (4,309 )     (2,357 )     (1,594 )
Total (loss) income from continuing operations before income taxes
  $ (19,223 )   $ (43,508 )   $ 50,877  
                         
Investment in affiliates
                       
Geoconstruction
  $ 384     $ 20,011     $ 16,666  
Mineral Exploration
    77,906       68,286       52,486  
Total investment in affiliates
  $ 78,290     $ 88,297     $ 69,152  
 
   
As of and Years Ended January 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2013
   
2012
   
2011
 
Revenues by product line
                 
Water systems
  $ 219,693     $ 208,558     $ 181,281  
Water treatment technologies
    54,276       51,410       49,109  
Sewer rehabilitation
    133,256       132,108       116,757  
Water and wastewater plant construction
    129,446       200,513       237,360  
Pipeline construction
    108,408       112,446       85,486  
Soil stabilization
    167,711       115,402       100,685  
Environmental and specialty drilling
    7,246       17,902       14,312  
Exploration drilling
    249,247       271,442       201,479  
Other
    6,341       2,977     13,436  
Total revenues by product line
  $ 1,075,624     $ 1,112,758     $ 999,905  
                         
Capital expenditures
                       
Water Resources
  $ 36,077     $ 27,816     $ 28,535  
Inliner
    2,579       3,218       2,938  
Heavy Civil
    1,088       5,413       4,302  
Geoconstruction
    6,760       8,240       3,242  
Mineral Exploration
    24,682       16,921       19,309  
Other
    1,650       2,529       2,717  
Discontinued operations
    1,672       4,126       3,289  
Corporate
    2,995       2,563       2,871  
Total capital expenditures
  $ 77,503     $ 70,826     $ 67,203  
                         
Depreciation and amortization
                 
Water Resources
  $ 15,285     $ 14,222     $ 12,405  
Inliner
    2,647       2,880       2,332  
Heavy Civil
    7,096       7,389       7,095  
Geoconstruction
    11,413       8,819       3,619  
Mineral Exploration
    19,030       15,145       13,070  
Other
    550         5,381         4,712  
Corporate
    5,376       2,204       1,604  
Total depreciation and amortization
  $ 61,397     $ 56,040     $ 44,837  
                         
Assets
                       
Water Resources
  $ 154,207     $ 194,902     $ 178,744  
Inliner
    67,027       61,601       46,262  
Heavy Civil
    114,361       123,475       187,333  
Geoconstruction
    170,064       113,612       118,805  
Mineral Exploration
    213,908       203,277       165,230  
Other
    6,804       13,585       15,600  
Discontinued operations
    -       52,893       57,047  
Corporate
    85,855       42,491       47,631  
Total assets
  $ 812,226     $ 805,836     $ 816,652  
 
   
As of and Years Ended January 31,
 
(in thousands)
 
2013
   
2012
   
2011
 
Geographic Information :
                 
Revenues
                 
United States
  $ 839,337     $ 877,757     $ 832,465  
Africa/Australia
    88,888       110,012       79,546  
Mexico
    69,970       58,166       43,734  
Other foreign
    77,429       66,823       44,160  
Total revenues
  $ 1,075,624     $ 1,112,758     $ 999,905  
                         
Property and equipment, net
                       
United States
  $ 177,198     $ 231,838     $ 215,966  
Africa/Australia
    29,875       24,900       24,749  
Mexico
    10,582       9,559       9,311  
Other foreign
    48,885       11,060       9,830  
Total property and equipment, net
  $ 266,540     $ 277,357     $ 259,856