Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Joe Pratt – Wachovia Securities.
Joe Pratt – Wachovia Securities
First question would be on the Apollo DRF approval in the United States. How much of a lift could that give your revenues in the coming fiscal year?
James A. Risher
Basically, Joe, in our plans for this year and as you know we don’t really discuss forecasts per se but we are planning about 2.5 times the shipments from Italy that we had last year. Frankly, right now one of our big issues is the panels. We are sourcing those panels from Trixell which is a company that is actually owned in part by Trixell, Siemens and Philips and they’re having tremendous yield problems and I saw an email this morning from their VP of production and he’s saying that they’re beginning to increase those yields substantially and so we have actually booked an additional order in the U.S.
We have about nine additional systems to ship in Europe; actually six systems of those to Bangladesh, to the situation where we’re in competition with Siemens and we prevailed and so we feel the capacity to sell is excellent. We plan being a little cautious only because we are hoping that they were able to get out of this supply issue in terms of the panels themselves.
As it turns out right now there’s only one manufacturer in the world that’s actually making a dynamic flat panel as opposed to a traditional flat panel for the radioscopic/fluoroscopic and other similar exams and so we’re all depending on this one supplier but feel very good about it.
Joe Pratt – Wachovia Securities
The second one would be on the [NMT] relationship. Have you started to ship on that?
James A. Risher
Actually, we have just received our initial shipment from them. It’ll be arriving on Wednesday. We have one installation in already and we have one that will be shipped within the next two weeks. And we just announced the program actually about 30 days ago and we’ve received some orders and we think as soon as we can get the supply train running, it’s not in this case a matter of shortage; it’s just getting everything started up and unfortunately, we were also caught in the Olympics situation where we should have received some of this product probably three weeks ago but as you recall from the Olympics, the Chinese economy shut down some of its factories and its traffic and so everything got delayed.
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