Canadian plasma system and material developerTekna(Tekna Holding AS) has forecast that its sales will boom during the coming financial year after its powder orders rose by 25% in Q4 2021.
在2021年最后一个季度,Tekna g的材料enerated (CAD) $4.6 million in revenue, 25% more than they managed to bring in during Q4 2020, and it received $3.3 million worth of orders in December alone. While this wasn’t enough to prevent the firm’s income falling 17% year-on-year to $6 million, it now expects its “sales acceleration to continue through 2022,” putting it back on a growth trajectory.
Tekna首席执行官Luc Dionne解释说：“ Tekna在第四季度报告了材料的稳固订单摄入量，在航空航天行业的强烈需求中，将我们的订单积压记录到记录中。”
他补充说：“增材制造业的市场前景约占Tekna总雷电竞充值收入的60％，这仍然是积极的。”他补充说，中国消费电子产品的需求显示出有希望的发展和销售的医疗植入物，爬上了前浮游水平。”
Tekna的第四季度2021财务业绩
实际上,在t Tekna报告其财务业绩wo main segments: Materials and Systems, with the former significantly outperforming the latter during Q4 2021. Citing “Covid-related execution delays,” the company says that its Systems revenue fell 62% between Q4 2020 and 2021, but it doesn’t believe this conversion slump will continue, given that it has $5.1 million worth of related orders in its backlog.
Yet despite this, and the fact that its customers postponed another $0.8 million of powder orders to Q1 2022, demand for its materials still soared over the course of Q4 2021, with its order intake hitting $6.6 million. This increase, which took the firm’s annual figure to $19.8 million, was largely driven by demand for its 3D printing materials from its aerospace clients, which accounted for 50% of its total sales.
During Q4 2021, Tekna also saw the adoption of its materials within the consumer sector continue to rise dramatically, growing by 200% between H1 and H2 2021 alone. According to the company, this demand was driven by an industry “seeking to reduce process costs and improve mechanical performance,” and it received a five-ton order in the last quarter.
Elsewhere, in medical, Tekna says that appetite for its materials is recovering, hence its sales there have risen 114% over the last two years, and it expects this rate of growth to accelerate moving forwards, with its Ti64 offering set to replace Cobalt Chromium which it says is “considered hazardous by European and U.S. authorities.”
展望未来，鉴于其物质订单积压在第4季度2021年达到1,020万美元，其许多OEM客户承诺进行长期交易，该公司预计将看到“ 2022年和未来几年的大量订单”通过其“在所有地理领土上成长的销售部队”的转变。
| 财务亮点（CAD $） | Q4 2020 | Q4 2021 | 2020财年 | 2021财年 |
| Revenue | 7.4m | 6m | 22m | 26.8m |
| Gross Margin | 55% | 28％ | 49％ | 44% |
| EBITDA | 3.1m | -3.8m | 0。3m | -8.7m |
| End of Period Cash Balance | 2.5m | 38.6m | 2.5m | 38.6m |
| 经常性收入（作为材料收入的百分比） | 82％ | 91％ | - | - |
Creating an aerospace sales pipeline
Unsurprisingly, given that half of Tekna’s custom comes from the aerospace sector, the firm focused a lot of its activities in this area during Q4, making breakthroughs along the way that no doubt contributed to its powder sales success.
Over the quarter, the company says it was added to the qualified supplier list of an unnamed European engine manufacturer, in a deal that followed on from an existing five-year supply agreement, while its work towards qualifying its materials forAirbus申请仍然是“目标”，定于稍后在2022财年进行的粉末输送。
与此同时，在韩国，法国和美国汽车行业中，该公司补充说，它“取得了稳定的进步”，以在第4季度2021年第4季度揭示其材料的应用，其在该行业中的需求也对第4季度2020恢复了82％。
With the aim of further boosting its future powder sales fulfillment capabilities, Tekna has also announced the consolidation of its European production at a new facility in France. Set to have a manufacturing capacity of up to 1,500 tons, the complex’s opening is designed to strengthen its end-to-end supply chain resilience for customers, reduce its global carbon footprint and improve its overall margins.
“This facility will be the centerpiece of a supply chain that is 100% European-based, ranging from feedstock procurement to manufacturing of advanced powders, and delivery to point-of-use,” added Dionne. “Tekna’s ambition to enable a green economy through the efficient use of resources and the elimination of waste is taking shape.”
“我们正在加强公司的供应链弹性，减少了碳足迹，并使该行业能够在循环经济中运作。”
Plans to uplist in the offing?
Rather than provide an outlook for the coming quarter or the 2022 financial year, Tekna concluded the presentation of its results by issuing a set of ‘mid-to-long term ambitions’ for its sales performance. These goals include reaching 40-50% organic revenue growth per year, as well as an operational EBITDA margin of 25% and selling over 30 plasma units by 2025, before hitting the 250 mark by 2030.
Tekna believes these targets are feasible given the “megatrends accelerating demand” for its materials, and the potential of its plasma technology to drive “disruptive manufacturing change.” In fact, the firm is so confident of its future success, that it’s now publicly considering uplisting from the Euronext Growth to the main Oslo Stock Exchange, in order to take advantage of investor interest there.
Dionne总结道：“我们进入2022年，创纪录的总订单积压为1,530万美元，并且在加拿大和欧洲的生产能力稳步扩大。”“鉴于该公司的扎实前景，我们计划在2022年的过程中将其列入奥斯陆证券交易所主列表。”
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