Using SAF not only makes the railway cars and trailers lighter, but require less steel to support, their floors. Other ideas are to use SAF in petrochemical plants and offshore oil rigs. These industries essentially need blast and fire protection in living areas, stairwell enclosures, escapes routes, and hazardous material containment areas. The off shore oil industry could use SAF to lighten topside weight on offshore oil platforms, other applications potentially expand to living areas, decks, and helicopter pads. These and other applications are in a varying state of consideration "largely a tradeoff between the need for early commercial sales and the development resources. Cymat's goal is to use the success of these early applications to gain mainstream acceptance for SAF in the Tier One Automotive industry. .
A brief financial analysis of Cymat has been prepared beginning with Cymat's profitability measures. Cymat's Return On Investment (ROI), also referred to as return on assets, and Return On Equity (ROE) were -17%. The ROI describes the rate of return management was able to earn on the assets it had available during the year. The current average ROI for most American manufacturing companies is between 8% and 12%. As the ROI measures return on the corporation's assets, ROE measures the return on the owner, or shareholders equity. The average for American manufacturing companies ranges from 10% to 15%. Cymat's current price/earrings ratio is -13%; the average American manufacturing company historically ranges from 12% to 18%. With this deficit Cymat reported no dividend yields to date. One explanation of the below average profitability measures is that Cymat is a relatively new company. A majority of its expenses have been in research and development. It recently processed its first commercial order last year. .
Cymat's liquidity was estimated by using the current ratio and acid test ratio.
