President and chief executive Gary
R. Fairhead said, "Sales gains were
substantially offset by pricing pressures in various markets,
increases in manufacturing supplies and components costs, costs
related to the acquisition and integration of Able and expenses
related to the conversion to RoHS by various customers
during the quarter.
"Our focus going forward will be to complete the
transition to RoHS and to get the significant inefficiencies it
created at several of our operations behind us, to work on pricing
pressures with our customers and vendors, and to increase productivity."