Developing Innovative Solutions: We believe that technology and innovation are vital to success in our CMP consumables business and we devote significant resources to research and development. We need to stay ahead of the rapid technological advances in the electronics industry in order to deliver a broad line of CMP consumables products that meet or exceed our customers’ evolving needs. We have established research and development facilities in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and most recently in South Korea, in order to meet our customers’ technology needs on a global basis. In fiscal 2012, we launched a number of new products within our existing slurry and polishing pad businesses and we expanded sales of some of our newer product offerings crossing multiple applications over a range of technology nodes. Several of our achievements are discussed below: • e secured a number of business wins with both W first and second generation pad product platforms. Revenue generated by our polishing pad business in fiscal 2012 increased 8.6% from revenue generated in fiscal 2011. • n South Korea, we qualified new advanced dielectrics I products from our new research, development and manufacturing facility that we opened in late fiscal 2011. We have placed strategic emphasis on increasing business in Korea as it represents the second largest CMP consumables market in the world, and we successfully increased our fiscal 2012 revenue generated in South Korea by 22% from fiscal 2011. • ithin our copper slurry business, we began deliverW ing new copper slurry products in a concentrated form, designed to be diluted by our customers. This reduces transportation costs and assists our customers in lowering their overall cost of ownership. • e secured new business for tungsten slurries for a W number of advanced applications. • e also experienced growth in our aluminum slurry W products, which are used in advanced High-K metal gate device integration. Close Collaboration With Our Customers: We believe that building close relationships with our customers is key to achieving long-term success in our business. We collaborate with our customers on joint projects to identify and develop new and improved CMP solutions, to integrate our products into their manufacturing processes, and to assist them with supply, warehousing and inventory management. Our customers demand a highly reliable supply source, and we believe we have a competitive advantage because of our ability to timely deliver high-quality products and service from the early stages of product development through the highvolume commercial use of our products. We strategically locate our research facilities and clean rooms, manufacturing operations and the related technical and customer support teams to be responsive to our customers’ needs. We believe our extensive research and development facilities, in close proximity to our customers, provide a competitive advantage. In fiscal 2011, we expanded our facilities at several locations in the Asia Pacific region to further enhance our customer relationships. We completed construction of a new 56,000 square foot research, development and manufacturing facility in Oseong, South Korea. We believe this facility has enhanced our ability to support our customers as South Korea is home to two of the largest manufacturers of memory devices in the world. We also expanded manufacturing capacity in Japan and Singapore to support continued growth in customer demand and to respond more quickly to our customers’ needs in the Asia Pacific region. Robust Global Supply Chain: We believe that product and supply chain quality is critical to success in our business. Our customers demand continuous improvement in the performance of our products in terms of product quality and consistency. We strive to reduce variation in our products and processes in order to increase quality, productivity and efficiency, and improve the uniformity and consistency of performance of our CMP consumable products. Our global manufacturing sites are managed to ensure we have the people, training and systems needed to support the stringent industry demands for product quality. To support our quality initiative, we practice the concepts of Six Sigma across our Company. Six Sigma is a systematic, data-driven approach and methodology for improving quality by reducing variability. We believe our Six Sigma initiatives have contributed to significant, sustained improvement in productivity in our operations. We also believe the key supplier awards we received in fiscal 2012 from customers such as Intel and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation are evidence of our success in providing our customers with high-quality solutions. We also believe that the depth and breadth of our global supply chain are critical to our success and the success of our customers. We believe this differentiates us from our competitors. We now have five slurry manufacturing plants worldwide and a global network of suppliers, which we believe position us well to mitigate supply interruptions when unexpected events occur. 6