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Business and Credit Concentrations (Details) | 3 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016 | Sep. 30, 2015 | Sep. 30, 2016 | Sep. 30, 2015 | Dec. 31, 2015
Concentration Risk [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Concentration Risk, Additional Characteristic |  |  | 0 |  | 1
Canadian Customer [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales |  |  |  |  |
Net sales, percentage |  |  | 12.00% |  | 17.00%
Foreign customers outside the U.S. and Canada [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of significant portions of the Company's net sales |  |  |  |  |
Net sales, percentage | 26.90% | 36.20% | 31.10% | 37.70% |

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- Definition 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". + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 18 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64851502&loc=d3e6351-108592 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 825 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -Subparagraph (a) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73719730&loc=d3e13537-108611 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 825 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 20 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=73719730&loc=d3e13531-108611 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 954 -SubTopic 310 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=68075217&loc=d3e3115-115594 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 20 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64851502&loc=d3e6404-108592 + Details
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