Brian Shore
Analyst · Needham & Company
Okay. Thanks a lot, Matt. This is Brian again. I’ll add a few comments as well. So let’s start with the fourth quarter, what’s going on in the fourth quarter. The revenues are quite off as you know and that would explain most of the bottom line results, the top line may have this pretty straight forward, pretty easy to follow.
So with the revenues being off that would mean for us that at least from -- in the electronic area or electronics activities, that would lead to internet infrastructure spending is not very robust right now. And that would be global economic event, I would imagine. I don’t think it’s a regional event.
What will happen with that in the future, I guess, everybody has an opinion, but I think a lot of people believe that that spending will pick up in the future related to just the massive needs based upon iPhones, iPads, smartphones. We don’t sell into the consumer electronics. We don’t sell any products, the iPhone, iPads or smartphones, I think you know that.
But these devices have created enormous need for more infrastructure, at least that’s the belief. And that’s the market we’re selling to is infrastructure. So when companies like Ethernet service provider Verizon and AT&T start buying equipment that would be good for us and more equipment for us through capital budgets.
So we thus going on, on Kansas, Kansas continues to be the same story as it was in the third quarter, fourth quarter. All the transition activities are very challenging as we closed the -- our provision in Lynnwood, Washington. Those activities have been transferred to Kansas. We announced the closures of our operation in Connecticut. Those activities are being transferred to Kansas at this time.
The margin to Kansas, the operating efficiencies in Kansas, the yields in Kansas are very poor in the fourth quarter. I think it’s not pricing under the circumstances of how to manage the situation here. The good news though is that in the first quarter the things are settling down and the operating margins and the yield waste, those kind of key manufacturing metrics are quite a bit better.
So, we’re still in the middle of it. We haven’t gone through the transition yet, but I think things are going relatively well. We have the delay of a couple of months in the transition that we previously announced. I will comment on that further in a minute. Other than that, I would say things are going more or less according to plan in Kansas.
New products, so we announced some new products in the last 6 months, but we don’t have revenue -- any consequences from those products yet. Talking about those products for a while, we’re very pleased that we commercialize the products. We commercialized them with the provisional or preliminary UL, which was our plan. The final UL is critical and key though and that will account for both the products or 4 of them, actually in next 2 months, we expect. At that point, we would certainly we would expect to see some more significant revenues.
These products are high-speed low-loss products. So we talk about it in infrastructure and the need for more ability to fastest data, store data to transmit data. It’s not just more equipment, its more capable equipment, equipment that operates at a different level of capability, different speeds and thus these products are targeted toward those markets which I believe will be good markets in the future for us.
So the new products, we have 4800-20, 4800-20 SI, 1600-22, 1600-22 SI. We talked a lot about loss. Even in our news releases, we did something -- I think we did news release, a little unusual with the 1600-22 and 22 SI, unusually which I believe we specified the loss values of these products.
Loss is really the key when you’re talking about high-speed internet activities, the loss properties of the product. The 1600-22 SI, my recollection is that we indicated the loss was all forged really, was tested 038 but we rounded 04. That’s open resonator. That’s 50% resin content, 10 gigahertz.
The reason I say that and we say it is because we believe in the industry, there is a lot of -- some of the companies in the industry are not -- use different methodologies to test. So, we want to be very open about the methodology we use. So people understood that the numbers were real and they weren’t some enhanced by a testing methodologies or different ways to prepare any coupons. That loss, we believe is very difficult to match in the industry at this time.
So we’re pretty excited about their product. Love to see what happens about the product in particular. We don’t think that there are too many commercial offerings out there. We can call us up and get a lot to you in 3 days. So that would be able to match that loss.
So we’ll see what happens, but I want you to know about that. But as far as the fourth quarter is concerned and the first quarter as well, those products will not have any impact, at least there won't be significant revenues in most products. I know you want to know about -- little bit about the first quarter, that’s common question. So as you were doing -- it’s very interesting, revenues and bookings in Q4 -- in Q1 rather and we have 8 weeks or in books already in Q1.
So this is -- we’ll not just look at results as later because we don’t have still -- we’re done with our audit. So we have actually 8 weeks, 8 out of 13 in books for Q1. So these indications are little more meaningful than other quarters where the new quarter 2 or 3 weeks in books. We tell you anyway, but we always caution you.
We caution you now as well because we have 5 weeks to go. We don’t know what will happen in next 5 weeks. But the revenues and booking are almost dead on in Q1 as compared to Q4 in terms of run rate, what’s dead on and what’s exactly if you look at the 8 weeks as compared to the average for the Q4 almost dead on, almost exactly the same. So, nothing really significant there in terms of the top line bookings and revenue.
Talk about aerospace, so Matt already told you what the aerospace revenues were. Manage composite product -- sorry -- advance composite products and materials, the aerospace revenues for, I guess Q4 versus Q4 and also Q3.
Q1 the aerospace revenues are moving up little bit in a first 8 weeks little higher than the Q3, Q4 number, not surprising because as we’re going through these transitions, we’re also doing business development with aerospace, of course and based on part on our new capabilities and again as planned.
All right. So let’s figure this out. The impact of aerospace and I’m doing something a little different here I think, at least in the past we talked about Kansas. Now we’re talking U.S. aerospace activities meaning Kansas, Lynwood, Washington, which is closed and Waterbury. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to just talking about one part of the picture, it’s better to talk about the whole picture, give you better perspective especially since things are moving around, things are being transferred, one location to another.
So the Q4 versus Q3 was $100,000 worse in terms of bottom line and Q1 is looking to be better than Q4 by maybe $200,000 better than Q4. So we’re not there yet, but it’s moving in the right direction.
Let me comment on a couple of other thing. Oh, yes, restructuring charge, just let me give an update on the restructuring charge and the closure of Waterbury operation. I think we did a news release maybe in January indicating that Waterbury would close at the end of April. Previously, we had indicated it was going to close in the fiscal year, but things were delayed end of April and now it’s the end of June.
Most of the work will be done in May, but we’re going to keep Waterbury active and operating until the end of June. And the reason for that is that the transfers, the qualifications, the re-site qualifications are taking longer than expected in some cases.
It’s like the 90/10 rule, 90% work done but the last 10 have been quite difficult. We didn’t want to just kind of walk away from that business, we didn’t think that would be correct. So we are going to suffer with the duplicate cost for a little while longer. Also the charge was originally announced to be $3 million as Matt indicated, we had one quarter million in Q1 -- sorry in the Q4.
And we believe there’s about $1.3 million to go, so it’s probably going to come in a little less than $3 million in total may be $2.6 million and $2.7 million and that will probably be mostly in Q2 and Q3. The Q1 will have ongoing operating expenses, but until we close the operation, we’re really not getting the restructuring costs because we’re the operating line.
Let’s see anything else worth talking about here -- I guess one other thing, I guess that’s fine. I think I’ve covered enough by way of introductory remarks, maybe we’ll cover some more in the questions.
So operator, let’s go to the questions at this time, please.