Segment Reporting | SEGMENT REPORTING The Company’s financial segment reporting reflects an organizational alignment intended to leverage the Company’s unique portfolio of capabilities to create value for its customers by developing mission-critical solutions to maximize manufacturing yields and enable higher performance of devices. While these segments have separate products and technical know-how, they share common business systems and processes, technology centers, and strategic and technology roadmaps. The Company leverages its expertise from these three segments to create new and increasingly integrated solutions for its customers. The Company’s business is reported in the following segments: • Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM): SCEM provides high-performance and high-purity process chemistries, gases, and materials and safe and efficient delivery systems to support semiconductor and other advanced manufacturing processes. • Microcontamination Control (MC): MC solutions to filter and purify critical liquid chemistries and gases used in semiconductor manufacturing processes and other high-technology industries. • Advanced Materials Handling (AMH): AMH develops solutions to monitor, protect, transport, and deliver critical liquid chemistries, wafers, and substrates for a broad set of applications in the semiconductor industry and other high-technology industries. In the first quarter of 2019, the Company changed its definition of segment profit to include inter-segment sales. The Company updated its recognition of inter-segment sales to recognize the revenue and profit associated with products and components produced in one segment and supplied to another, before being sold to the ultimate end customer. The Company accounts for inter-segment sales and transfers as if the sales or transfers were to third parties, that is, at approximate market prices. Inter-segment sales are presented as an elimination below. Segment profit is defined as net sales less direct and indirect segment operating expenses, including certain general and administrative costs for the Company’s human resources, finance and information technology functions. The remaining unallocated expenses consist mainly of the Company’s corporate functions as well as interest expense, amortization of intangible assets and income tax expense. Prior quarter information has been recast to reflect the change in the Company’s definition of segment profit. Summarized financial information for the Company’s reportable segments is shown in the following tables. Three months ended Nine months ended (In thousands) September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 Net sales SCEM $ 127,750 $ 131,234 $ 379,772 $ 396,313 MC 155,979 151,478 463,870 395,338 AMH 117,256 123,227 340,835 377,877 Inter-segment elimination (6,838 ) (7,342 ) (20,409 ) (20,673 ) Total net sales $ 394,147 $ 398,597 $ 1,164,068 $ 1,148,855 Three months ended Nine months ended (In thousands) September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 Segment profit SCEM $ 17,074 $ 31,210 $ 65,505 $ 98,859 MC 46,792 42,448 137,241 119,973 AMH 17,077 22,226 54,487 73,231 Total segment profit $ 80,943 $ 95,884 $ 257,233 $ 292,063 The following table reconciles total segment profit to income before income taxes: Three months ended Nine months ended (In thousands) September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 September 28, 2019 September 29, 2018 Total segment profit $ 80,943 $ 95,884 $ 257,233 $ 292,063 Less: Amortization of intangible assets 15,152 21,419 50,400 45,102 Unallocated general and administrative expenses 12,998 6,490 51,640 25,580 Operating income 52,793 67,975 155,193 221,381 Interest expense 11,388 7,987 33,587 24,442 Interest income (1,172 ) (309 ) (4,020 ) (2,613 ) Other expense (income), net 934 810 (121,329 ) 4,826 Income before income tax expense $ 41,643 $ 59,487 $ 246,955 $ 194,726 In the following tables, revenue is disaggregated by country or region for the three and nine months ended September 28, 2019 and September 29, 2018 , respectively. Three months ended September 28, 2019 Nine months ended September 28, 2019 (In thousands) SCEM MC AMH Inter-segment Total SCEM MC AMH Inter-segment Total Taiwan $ 23,186 $ 32,521 $ 19,164 $ — $ 74,871 $ 69,943 $ 102,216 $ 50,027 $ — $ 222,186 United States 40,176 31,186 36,548 (6,838 ) 101,072 106,590 83,860 110,287 (20,409 ) 280,328 South Korea 18,441 27,239 20,195 — 65,875 55,463 81,585 52,939 — 189,987 Japan 13,587 25,160 9,417 — 48,164 40,354 74,976 32,761 — 148,091 China 14,699 23,544 12,354 — 50,597 49,269 68,247 32,853 — 150,369 Europe 7,806 9,845 12,587 — 30,238 24,235 32,022 42,594 — 98,851 Southeast Asia 9,855 6,484 6,991 — 23,330 33,918 20,964 19,374 — 74,256 $ 127,750 $ 155,979 $ 117,256 $ (6,838 ) $ 394,147 $ 379,772 $ 463,870 $ 340,835 $ (20,409 ) $ 1,164,068 Three months ended September 29, 2018 Nine months ended September 29, 2018 (In thousands) SCEM MC AMH Inter-segment Total SCEM MC AMH Inter-segment Total Taiwan $ 25,436 $ 34,452 $ 18,745 $ — $ 78,633 $ 79,653 $ 80,556 $ 50,942 $ — $ 211,151 United States 33,014 24,205 35,745 (7,342 ) 85,622 99,543 65,794 111,089 (20,673 ) 255,753 South Korea 21,088 18,893 19,858 — 59,839 62,206 58,698 66,407 — 187,311 Japan 12,141 27,479 12,049 — 51,669 40,707 82,016 35,160 — 157,883 China 18,667 27,360 12,263 — 58,290 50,373 56,417 38,793 — 145,583 Europe 7,579 10,873 16,899 — 35,351 23,345 30,963 49,859 — 104,167 Southeast Asia 13,309 8,216 7,668 — 29,193 40,486 20,894 25,627 — 87,007 $ 131,234 $ 151,478 $ 123,227 $ (7,342 ) $ 398,597 $ 396,313 $ 395,338 $ 377,877 $ (20,673 ) $ 1,148,855 |