On November 16, 2016, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (the “Corporation”) and the Compensation Committee of the Board approved the performance goals for the Corporation, upon which cash bonus awards that may be paid to the Corporation’s executive officers and other employees under the Corporation’s Short Term Incentive Program (“STIP”), which operates to the Cabot Microelectronics Corporation 2012 Omnibus Incentive Plan (“OIP”), for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 (“Fiscal 2017”), are intended to be based. The performance goals for Fiscal 2017 are financial goals that include revenue, gross profit, expressed as a percentage of revenue, and operating income, expressed as a percentage of revenue. Any cash bonus award amounts to the STIP and OIP will be determined for each participant based on levels of attainment of the indicated goals by the Corporation, as well as the attainment of individual performance objectives, as assessed by the Compensation Committee of the Board using its discretion. Such assessment may include consideration of macroeconomic and other factors, whether or not able to be generally foreseen, that may impact the Corporation’s performance during Fiscal 2017.

About Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (NASDAQ:CCMP)

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation supplies polishing slurries and pads used in the manufacture of integrated circuit (IC) devices within the semiconductor industry, in a process called chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). The Company is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of CMP consumables. The Company develops, produces and sells CMP slurries for polishing conducting and insulating materials used in IC devices, and also for polishing the disk substrates and magnetic heads used in hard disk drives. It also develops, manufactures and sells CMP polishing pads, which are used in conjunction with slurries in the CMP process. The Company also pursues other surface modification applications through its engineered surface finishes (ESF) business. The Company offers CMP polishing pads, under the Epic and NexPlanar brand names, for a range of applications and technology nodes.

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Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (NASDAQ:CCMP) closed its last trading session up +0.69 at 59.69 with – shares trading hands.