Future Investment

My place of employment grows large single crystals of silicon semi-conductor.  We then machine them into components that are part of the equipment used to make integrated circuit chips.  As fall rolls around our sales usually drops off, but, again usually, that doesn't stop us from growing crystals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  Last year we almost shut down for a couple of weeks in December, but we didn't.  It will be a close call again this year.

Despite the economy, the crystal engineering group has grown and we continue to spend money to improve efficiency and develop processes and machines to support those processes.  We are doing things that no one else in the world, but us, are doing. 

I applaud management for continuing to invest in the future of the organization.