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Monday, September 22, 2014 12:26:04 PM

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GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a technology company, provides materials and equipment for the solar, light emitting diode (LED), and electronics industries worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Sapphire, Polysilicon, and Photovoltaic (PV). The Sapphire segment provides advanced sapphire crystallization furnace systems used to produce sapphire boules; and sapphire materials for a range of other industrial and consumer applications, including medical devices, dental, oil and gas, and watch crystals, as well as specialty optical applications, such as low absorption optical sapphire for advanced optics and Titanium-doped sapphire material for high power lasers. The Polysilicon segment offers silicon deposition reactors; equipment, technology, and engineering services for the production and purification of trichlorosilane and silane; and engineering services. This segment also provides ancillary equipment and technologies for producing seed rods. The PV segment is engaged in the development, manufacture, and sale of crystallization growth furnaces to produce silicon ingots used in the production of solar wafers. This segment offers directional solidification system (DSS) multicrystalline and MonoCast casting furnaces; ancillary equipment, such as crucible coating stations, crucible manipulators, loaders/unloaders, extraction tools, and other material handling systems; and PV parts and services. GT Advanced Technologies Inc. sells its equipment and services to polysilicon producers, solar wafer manufacturers, and sapphire producers through direct sales force and indirect sales representatives. The company was formerly known as GT Solar International, Inc. and changed its name to GT Advanced Technologies Inc. in August 2011. GT Advanced Technologies Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Merrimack, New Hampshire.

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