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Investment Considerations

Rogers-SIG makes only strategic investments in companies with the following attributes:

• Its business is “materials technology” based and its principal products are sufficiently innovative to provide a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Its business is sufficiently adjacent to one (preferably more) of Rogers’ core businesses and core competencies as to create clear synergistic growth opportunities for Rogers as a whole.
• The capital invested by Rogers-SIG is used to enable profitable sales growth.
• The company is able to show the prospect of a high rate of return on Rogers-SIG's capital investment.

Preferential treatment will be given a company considered an ideal strategic investment partner with all of the following characteristics:

• Projecting sales of at least $10 million within three years and annual growth of at least 15% for five years thereafter
• Booked and delivered a minimum of $1 million in product sales over the prior twelve months
• Able to make the case that it is or will become number one or two in its market segment
• Expects to maintain net income after taxes in excess of 15% of sales
• Has a strong, vetted intellectual property position
• Has capable management in-house