EANS-Information of Significance: Binder+Co Aktiengesellschaft / Q1/2015 - Improvements in all group key indicators

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3-month report

13.05.2015

Press release / Main company information

Gleisdorf, 13 May 2015

Binder+Co Group Q1/2015 – Improvements in all group key indicators

As compared to the previous year, in the first quarter of 2015
Binder+Co, the Gleisdorf-based, international specialist for
processing, environmental and packaging technology, was able to
register a slight improvement in all its group key indicators. The
Binder+Co management therefore assumes that sales revenues and income
for the year as a whole will be higher than the values for 2013 and
2014.

The positive trend with regard to Binder+Co order intake that has
been apparent since the middle of 2014 continued in the first quarter
of 2015 due to the more favourable market climate in the USA and
intensive marketing activities in Europe. All in all, in Q1/2015,
Binder+Co acquired new orders worth EUR 21.52 million and thus
surpassed the figure for the comparable period of 2014 by 9.3%.

Karl Grabner, from the Binder+Co. Management Board: “With sales
revenues of EUR 21.09 million in the first quarter of 2015, we are
26% up on the past year and have been able to turn negative EBIT of
minus EUR 0.74 million into a positive figure of EUR 0.35 million.
Especially pleasing however is the order situation and thus our
medium-term outlook. As at 31 March 2015, our order backlog stood at
EUR 58.23 million and on the basis of the roughly EUR 29.5 million of
relevance to 2015, it is our declared aim to raise both sales
revenues and income to levels above those of 2013 and 2014.”

The strengths of the Binder+Co Group – Three different segments Sales
revenues in the Processing Technology Segment, which covers the
screening, wet processing, drying and comminution areas amounted to
EUR 8.54 million, which represented a 40.5% share of total sales. The
7% decline in sales revenues as compared to the preceding year can be
traced to the fact that no large-volume plant projects were cleared
in the first quarter of 2015. As was the case last year, segment EBIT
was negative at minus EUR 0.46 million and once again this related to
the losses made by the subsidiaries allocated to the segment, which
in 2015 still failed to develop as anticipated. Order intake at EUR
9.18 million was 9% lower than in the previous year.

Sales revenues in the Environmental Technology Segment, which focuses
on sorting machines for glass, paper and plastics recycling, were a
notable 29.2% up on those of the previous year at EUR 5.22 million.
Nonetheless, segment EBIT remained slightly negative at minus EUR
0.10 million owing to weaker result margins on the plant projects
undergoing completion. The bulk of order intake of EUR 6.70 million,
which was higher than in the preceding year, consisted of strong
single machines, spare parts and services business.

The Packaging Technology Segment, which is managed by the independent
subsidiary Statec Binder GmbH, showed the best development, more than
doubling its sales revenues in the first quarter of 2015 as opposed
to the comparative period of 2014 to EUR 7.33 million. The segment’s
EBIT contribution also rose by EUR 0.12 million to EUR 0.91 million,
while at EUR 5.64 million, order intake remained at the level of
Q1/2014.

Workforce slightly larger Workforce numbers as at 31 March 2015
totalled 378, having risen marginally from the 2014 year-end figure
of 373. This was due largely to the strengthening of the sales
structures in all group companies.

Investments The long-term investment programme at group headquarters
in Gleisdorf was largely completed in 2014. Therefore, at EUR 0.74
million (Q1/2014: EUR 1.69 million), Binder+Co Group investments in
Q1/2015 were considerably lower than in the comparable period of
2014.

The Binder+Co Group Binder+Co is a specialist in the field of
processing, environmental and packaging technology and the world
market leader in the screening and glass recycling segments. The
company was listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange at the end of 2006
and is now part of the Third Market in the mid market segment. The
Binder+Co Group consists of Binder+Co AG, the three fully owned
subsidiaries Comec-Binder S.r.l., Bublon GmbH and Binder+Co Machinery
(Tianjin) Ltd., as well as the Statec Binder GmbH joint venture
(50.7%).

Further inquiry note:
Inquiries
Karl Grabner, Member of the Board
Telephone: +43/3112/800-363

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issuer: Binder+Co Aktiengesellschaft
Grazerstraße 19-25
A-8200 Gleisdorf
phone: +43 3112 800-363
FAX: +43 3112 800-320
mail: karl.grabner@binder-co.at
WWW: www.binder-co.com
sector: Machine Manufacturing
ISIN: AT000BINDER3
indexes: mid market
stockmarkets: Third Market: Wien
language: English