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Business and Credit Concentrations (Details Textual)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015
Business and Credit Concentrations (Textual) [Abstract]
Business concentration risk percentage attributable to net sales	10.00%
Concentration Risk, Additional Characteristic	one

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Business and credit concentrations.

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Business concentration risk percentage attributable to net sales.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk as a percentage of some financial balance or benchmark, this item identifies a second characteristic of the concentration. For example, "Europe" is the second characteristic in the phrase: "net assets in Europe are 70% of total net assets".

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