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Note 2 - Inventories

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Notes to Financial Statements

Inventory Disclosure [Text Block]

2. Inventories

Inventories consist of the following (in thousands):

		March 31, 2017				December 31, 2016
Short-term inventories:
Raw materials		$	13,117			$	15,411
Work-in-process			1,209				1,235
Finished goods			323				40
Supplies			2,305				2,351
Total short-term inventories			16,954				19,037
Long-term inventories:
Finished goods			729				773
Total inventories		$	17,683			$	19,810

Long-term inventories are recorded in Other assets. As of

December

31,

2016,

inventories were stated at the lower of cost or market. Upon adoption of Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 

2015

-

11,

“Inventory (Topic 

330):

Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory” on

January

 

1,

2017,

which did not result in a change in the Company’s inventory values, inventories are stated at the lower of cost and net realizable value. See further discussion of this ASU in Note 

11,

“Recent Accounting and Reporting Developments.”

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The entire disclosure for inventory. Includes, but is not limited to, the basis of stating inventory, the method of determining inventory cost, the classes of inventory, and the nature of the cost elements included in inventory.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2126998

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