Francis J. Kramer, Chief Executive Officer and President of II-VI Incorporated, presides over the opening bell to celebrate the company's 20 year listing anniversary.

II-VI Incorporated, the worldwide leader in crystal growth technology, is a vertically-integrated manufacturing company that creates and markets products for a diversified customer base including industrial manufacturing, military and aerospace, medical radiology, high- power electronics and telecommunications, and thermoelectronics applications. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, with manufacturing, sales, and distribution facilities worldwide, the Company produces numerous crystalline compounds including zinc selenide for infrared laser optics, cadmium zinc telluride for gamma radiation detectors, silicon carbide for high-power electronic and microwave applications, and bismuth telluride for thermoelectric coolers.

The Company's infrared optics business, II-VI Infrared, manufactures optical and opto-electronic components for industrial laser and thermal imaging systems. The Company's near-infrared optics business, VLOC, manufactures near-infrared and visible light products for industrial, scientific, military and medical instruments and laser gain materials and products for solid-state YAG and YLF lasers. In the Company's military and materials business, the military infrared optics business, Exotic Electro-Optics (EEO), manufactures infrared products for military applications and the materials business, Pacific Rare Specialty Metals & Chemicals, is a producer and refiner of selenium and tellurium metals and chemicals. In the Company's Compound Semiconductor Group, the eV PRODUCTS division manufactures and markets solid-state x-ray and gamma-ray sensor products and materials for use in medical, industrial, environmental, scientific and homeland security applications; the Wide Bandgap Materials (WBG) group manufactures and markets single crystal silicon carbide substrates for use in the solid-state lighting, wireless infrastructure, RF electronics and power switching industries; the Marlow Industries, Inc. subsidiary designs and manufactures thermoelectric cooling and power generation solutions for use in defense, space, photonics, telecommunications, medical, consumer and industrial markets; and, the Advanced Materials Development Center (AMDC) provides expertise in materials development, process development, and manufacturing scale up.

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