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PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
PROPERTY, PLANT, AND EQUIPMENT |
Schedule of property, plant, and equipment |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |
Land |  | $ | 261,893 |  | $ | 261,893 |
Buildings and building improvements |  | 11,354,210 |  | 11,121,552 |
Production equipment |  | 15,612,807 |  | 15,550,226 |
Office furniture and equipment |  | 2,821,179 |  | 2,341,747 |
Construction in progress |  | 731,258 |  | 995,810 |
Automobiles |  | 102,321 |  | 102,321 |
|  | 30,883,668 |  | 30,373,549 |
Accumulated depreciation |  | (18,984,018 | ) | (17,719,693 | )
|  | $ | 11,899,650 |  | $ | 12,653,856 |

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