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Segment and Geographic Information (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Schedule of Sales to External Customers and Gross Profit by Segment

The following tables summarize various financial amounts for each of our business segments (in thousands):



	Year Ended December 31,
	2011		2010		2009
Sales to External Customers:
Electronics	$	259,730	$	222,795	$	126,417
Materials Science	292,092		182,430		231,462
Life Sciences	102,777		74,555		81,824
Service and Components	171,827		154,442		137,641
Total	$	826,426	$	634,222	$	577,344
Gross Profit:
Electronics	$	137,032	$	111,925	$	61,656
Materials Science	125,891		74,718		97,317
Life Sciences	47,101		30,566		28,422
Service and Components	57,342		52,055		42,109
Total	$	367,366	$	269,264	$	229,504

Schedule of Goodwill and Total Assets by Segment



	December 31, 2011		December 31, 2010
Goodwill:
Electronics	$	18,115	$	18,122
Materials Science	17,991		17,998
Life Sciences	16,895		3,624
Service and Components	5,052		5,056
Total	$	58,053	$	44,800
Total Assets:
Electronics	$	121,311	$	174,512
Materials Science	180,607		111,874
Life Sciences	67,445		40,604
Service and Components	158,542		143,080
Corporate and Eliminations	562,004		514,352
Total	$	1,089,909	$	984,422

Schedule of Sales by Geographic Region [Table Text Block]

The following table summarizes sales by geographic region (in thousands):



	Year Ended December 31,
	2011						2010						2009
	Product Sales		Service Sales		Total		Product Sales		Service Sales		Total		Product Sales		Service Sales		Total
U.S. and Canada	$	179,126	$	78,118	$	257,244	$	131,283	$	72,719	$	204,002	$	134,919	$	63,718	$	198,637
Europe	206,994		54,319		261,313		160,927		46,467		207,394		166,581		45,226		211,807
Asia-Pacific Region and Rest of World	268,479		39,390		307,869		187,570		35,256		222,826		138,203		28,697		166,900
Consolidated net sales	$	654,599	$	171,827	$	826,426	$	479,780	$	154,442	$	634,222	$	439,703	$	137,641	$	577,344

Geographic Schedule of Long-Lived Assets [Table Text Block]

Our long-lived assets were geographically located as follows (in thousands):



	December 31, 2011		December 31, 2010
United States	$	49,284	$	50,747
The Netherlands	21,674		18,817
Other	23,825		17,264
Total	$	94,783	$	86,828

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Tabular disclosure of the names of foreign countries from which revenue is material and the amount of revenue from external customers attributed to those countries. An entity may also provide subtotals of geographic information about groups of countries.

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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