• commercial slurry manufacturing plant and distribua tion center, and a development and technical support facility in Geino, Japan, comprising approximately 144,000 square feet; • commercial slurry manufacturing plant, research and a development facility and offices in Oseong, South Korea, comprising approximately 56,000 square feet. Our principal foreign facilities that we lease consist of: • n office, laboratory and commercial polishing pad a manufacturing plant in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, comprising approximately 31,000 square feet; • commercial slurry manufacturing plant, research and a development facility and business office in Singapore, comprising approximately 24,000 square feet. We believe that our facilities are suitable and adequate for their intended purpose and provide us with sufficient capacity and capacity expansion opportunities and technological capability to meet our current and expected demand in the foreseeable future. Item 3. Legal Proceedings While we are not involved in any legal proceedings that we believe will have a material impact on our consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows, we periodically become a party to legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. For example, in 2011, we concluded litigation in the United States against a competitor in which the validity of certain of our CMP slurry patents for tungsten CMP was upheld, although the specific competitive products at issue were found to not infringe the claims at issue. Executive Officers of the Registrant Set forth below is information concerning our executive officers and their ages as of October 31, 2012. Name William P. Noglows H. Carol Bernstein Yumiko Damashek William S. Johnson David H. Li Ananth Naman Daniel J. Pike Lisa A. Polezoes Stephen R. Smith Adam F. Weisman Daniel S. Wobby Thomas S. Roman Age 54 52 56 55 39 42 49 48 53 50 49 51 Position Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel Vice President, Japan and Operations in Asia Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Vice President, Asia Pacific Region Vice President, Research and Development Vice President, Corporate Development Vice President, Human Resources Vice President, Marketing Vice President, Business Operations Vice President, Global Sales Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller Development of Argonne National Laboratory, which is operated by the University of Chicago for the United States Department of Energy. From May 1985 until December 1997, she served in various positions with the IBM Corporation, culminating in serving as an Associate General Counsel, and was the Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of Advantis Corporation, an IBM joint venture. Ms. Bernstein received her B.A. from Colgate University and her J.D. from Northwestern University; she is a member of the Bar of the States of Illinois and New York. YUMIKO DAMASHEK has served as our Vice President, Japan and Operations in Asia since June 2008. Previously, Ms. Damashek served as Managing Director of Japan since November 2005. Prior to joining us, Ms. Damashek served as President for Celerity Japan, Inc. Prior to that, she held various leadership positions at Global Partnership Creation, Inc. and Millipore Corporation. Ms. Damashek received her B.A. from the University of Arizona and her M.B.A. from San Diego State University. 16 WILLIAM P. NOGLOWS has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since November 2003. Mr. Noglows had previously served as a director of our Company from January 2000 until April 2002. Prior to joining us, Mr. Noglows served as an Executive Vice President of Cabot Corporation from 1998 to June 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Noglows held various management positions at Cabot Corporation including General Manager of Cabot Corporation’s Cab-O-Sil Division, where he was one of the primary founders of our Company when our business was a division of Cabot Corporation, and was responsible for identifying and encouraging the development of the CMP application. Mr. Noglows received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Noglows is also a director of Littelfuse, Inc. and Aspen Aerogels, Inc. H. CAROL BERNSTEIN has served as our Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel since August 2000. From January 1998 until joining us, Ms. Bernstein served as the General Counsel and Director of Industrial Technology