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Business and Credit Concentrations (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Canadian Customer [Member]
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales
Net sales, percentage	17.00%
Net sales to foreign customers outside the U.S. and Canada
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales
Net sales, percentage	37.00%	33.00%	37.00%
Net sales to SANG
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales
Net sales, percentage			12.00%

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Business and credit concentrations.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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