Astronics Corporation
Astronics Corporation (“Astronics” or the “Company”)
is a leading supplier of products to the global aerospace, defense, consumer
electronics and semi-conductor industries. Our products include advanced, high-performance
lighting and safety systems, electrical power generation and distribution systems,
aircraft structures, avionics products and automatic test systems.
We have operations in the United States, Canada and France. We design and build
our products through our wholly owned subsidiaries Astronics Advanced Electronic
Systems Corp. (“AES”); Astronics AeroSat Corporation (“AeroSat”);
Ballard Technology, Inc. (“Ballard”); DME Corporation (“DME”);
Luminescent Systems, Inc. (“LSI”); Luminescent Systems Canada, Inc.
(“LSI Canada”); Max-Viz, Inc. (“Max-Viz”); Peco, Inc.
(“Peco”); PGA Electronic s.a. (“PGA”); Astronics Test
Systems, Inc. and Armstrong Aerospace, Inc. (“Armstrong”). We have
two reportable segments, Aerospace and Test Systems.
Our Aerospace segment designs and manufactures products for the global aerospace
industry. Product lines include lighting and safety systems, electrical power
generation, distribution and motions systems, aircraft structures, avionics
products and other products. Our Aerospace customers are the airframe manufacturers
(OEM’s) that build aircraft for the commercial, military and general aviation
markets, suppliers to those OEM’s, aircraft operators such as airlines
and branches of the U.S. Department of Defense as well as the Federal Aviation
Administration and airport operators. During This segment’s sales were
divided 80% to the commercial transport market, 9% to the military aircraft
market, 8% to the business jet market and 3% to other markets. Most of this
segment’s sales are a result of contracts or purchase orders received
from customers, placed on a day-to-day basis or for single year procurements
rather than long-term multi-year contract commitments. On occasion, the Company
does receive contractual commitments or blanket purchase orders from our customers
covering multiple-year deliveries of hardware to our customers.
Our Test Systems segment designs, develops, manufactures and maintains automatic
test systems that support the semiconductor, aerospace, communications and weapons
test systems as well as training and simulation devices for both commercial
and military applications. In the Test Systems Segment, Astronics’ products
are sold to a global customer base including OEMs and prime government contractors
for both consumer electronics and military products. This segment’s sales
were divided 79% to the commercial electronics market and 21% to the military
test market. During 2013, and before the acquisition of ATS in February 2014,
this segment’s sales were all to the military market.