FY2025-H1 Order Growth, Revenue Growth and Return to Operating Profitability

「As a result, on the order front, the company secured orders for energy-saving annealing equipment and functional-materials in-flame treatment equipment for the domestic steel industry, exhaust-gas treatment equipment for the domestic steel industry and functional-materials heat-treatment furnaces for domestic customers, among others. Orders increased to ¥17,110 million, or 101.4% of the same period of the previous year. On the revenue side, construction of projects including NEDO’s “Green Innovation Fund Project / Decarbonization of Thermal Processes in Manufacturing,” large decarbonization-oriented high-brightness annealing equipment for overseas customers and carburizing furnaces for domestic automakers progressed steadily, and revenue increased to ¥14,721 million, or 116.8% of the same period of the previous year. On the profit side, the company actively worked to reduce procurement costs and took other measures, resulting in operating profit of ¥77 million, compared with an operating loss of ¥250 million in the same period of the previous year, and ordinary profit of ¥232 million, compared with an ordinary loss of ¥105 million.」