its customers and suppliers during the design phase of new thin film disks facilitates customer qualification of its products and improves the Company's ability to rapidly reach cost-effective, high-volume manufacturing.  In addition, 
the Company receives ongoing feedback on the performance of its aluminum disk substrates, allowing Cerion to provide better products and customer service.  The Company also works with its suppliers to optimize their products' performance in the Company's manufacturing process
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The prospectus further represented:

"To meet these demands, the Company uses a system of multi-tiered communication for sales, marketing and customer service.  Senior management of the Company, and production, operation and engineering personnel, directly market and interact with their counterparts at the Company's customers.  
The Company believes that this multi-tiered approach has resulted in strong, active relationships with bothbetween the 27 countries. With the exception of Canada and Denmark, higher percentages of males engaged in pre-drinking compared to females, at all ages. While we noted a decline in pre-drinking probability among respondents in all countries after 21 years of age, after the age of 30 this probability remained constant in some countries, or even increased in Brazil, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand and the United States. Pre-drinking is a worldwide phenomenon, but varies substantially by sex and age between countries. These variations suggest that policy-makers would benefit from increased understanding of the particularities of pre-drinking in their own country to efficiently target harmful pre-drinking behaviours.