Organization and History; Going Concern and Management's Plans

12 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Organization And History Going Concern And Managements Plans

Organization and History; Going Concern and Management's Plans

1.   Organization and History; Management's Plans

Organization and History

LightPath Technologies, Inc. ("LightPath", the "Company", "we", "us" or "our") was incorporated in Delaware in 1992. It was the successor to LightPath Technologies Limited Partnership formed in 1989, and its predecessor, Integrated Solar Technologies Corporation formed in 1985. On April 14, 2000, the Company acquired Horizon Photonics, Inc. ("Horizon"). On September 20, 2000, the Company acquired Geltech, Inc. ("Geltech"). The Company completed its initial public offering ("IPO") during fiscal 1996. In November 2005, we formed LightPath Optical Instrumentation (Shanghai) Co., Ltd ("LPOI"), a wholly-owned manufacturing subsidiary, located in Jiading, People's Republic of China. The manufacturing operations are housed in a 16,000 square foot facility located in the Jiading Industrial Zone near Shanghai. This plant increased our overall production capacity and enabled LightPath to compete for larger production volumes of optical components and assemblies, and strengthened our partnerships within the Asia/Pacific region.

LightPath is a manufacturer and integrator of families of precision molded aspheric optics, high-performance fiber-optic collimator, GRADIUM glass lenses and other optical materials used to produce products that manipulate light. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and distributes optical components and assemblies utilizing the latest optical processes and advanced manufacturing technologies. The Company also performs research and development for optical solutions for the traditional optics markets and communications markets. As used herein, the terms LightPath, the Company, we, us or our, refer to LightPath individually or, as the context requires, collectively with its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

Managements Plans

The Company has previously incurred recurring losses from operations. As of June 30, 2013 the Company has an accumulated deficit of approximately $204 million. Cash flow from operations was approximately $556,000 and $406,000 during fiscal 2013 and 2012, respectively. Fiscal 2013 was the first profitable year in the Company's history. The improvements in the cash provided by operations are partly as a result of increased revenues from the additional markets we are able to address due to our low cost structure as well as manufacturing an product efficiencies. In 2006, we also implemented our cash conservation strategy, which included reducing labor, material costs and discretionary expense spending. In addition, starting in fiscal 2009we redesigned certain product lines – collimators and precision molded optics, increased sales prices on GRADIUM products, obtained more favorable material costs by sourcing some purchased components in China, and instituted more efficient management techniques, all of which have improved our product yields. Management believes these factors will contribute towards achieving profitability, assuming we meet our sales targets.

           Management has developed an operating plan for fiscal 2014 and believes the Company has adequate financial resources for achievement of that plan and to sustain its current operations in the coming year. The fiscal 2014 operating plan and related financial projections we have developed anticipate sales growth primarily from our precision molded optics product line, particularly our low-cost lenses sold in Asia, and the Company's infrared and collimator product lines. We have been targeting these markets since fiscal 2009. We expect margin improvements based on production efficiencies and reductions in product costs as a result of the shifting of our manufacturing operations to Shanghai, offset by marginal increases in selling, administrative and new product development expenditures. However, there is no assurance we will be able to achieve the necessary sales growth and gross margin improvements to sustain operations. Factors which could adversely affect cash balances in future quarters include, but are not limited to, a decline in revenue or a lack of anticipated sales growth, increased material costs, increased labor costs, planned production efficiency improvements not being realized, increases in property, casualty, benefit and liability insurance premiums and increases in other discretionary spending, particularly sales and marketing related.

Management will be monitoring the plan closely during the year and should the plan objectives not be met during the year, remedial actions will be initiated. The Company had a cash balance of approximately $1.57 million at June 30, 2013. As discussed in Note 17, during fiscal 2012, the Company raised approximately $1.6 million from the sale of common stock and warrants. The Company may still seek external debt or equity financing if it can be obtained in an amount and on terms that are acceptable; however, the Company may be required to seek external financing regardless of whether the terms would otherwise be acceptable if the Company's financial resources are not sufficient to sustain its operations or to pursue its business plan.