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| As we move forward, our Aerospace segment will account for the majority of our consolidated revenues and even larger percentage of our earnings, positioning us for long-term profitable growth |
| We've seen a good start to Q1, although it's going to take time to fully mitigate productivity challenges in a small number of our sites, I'm confident we're seeing the improvements, and we have the right action plans in place |
| So we think that the connections of those product lines are quite nice |
| I am pleased with the noteworthy progress made in the execution of Barnes business transformation strategy encompassing our three pillars; core business execution, scaled aerospace, and integrate, consolidate, and rationalize industrial |
| As we know, due to labor demand, labor productivity, automation and robotics and the genetic business we run there is an end-of-arm tooling specialist application solutions for customers has been very successful |
| For the full year we turned in a solid performance |
| It is truly an exciting time as we position Barnes for sustainable, profitable growth, and further value creation |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin improved to nearly 19% reflecting benefits from our cost savings efforts |
| We also improved cash flow significantly due to disciplined cost management, and a focus on working capital while still investing in our business for long-term growth |
| So we see that as a very nice business with good growth trajectories |
| On an adjusted basis, net income per share was $0.41 compared to $0.52, reflecting revenue growth and margin improvement, offset by higher interest and tax expense |
| We have made significant strides in integrating our aerospace business and are better positioned to participate in the strong industry growth opportunity |
| So that's the fit from the automation business strategically, sell through a combination of dealers and direct selling through automation centers that have been highly successful |
| Despite more work ahead, and I'm proud of our team accomplishments in a short period of time we've been at it |
| We delivered meaningfully on our key strategic priorities during the year and are gaining momentum |
| We continue to identify opportunities to strengthen our direct connection with customers for top line growth and leverage these opportunities through commercial excellence, combined with operational productivity to improve bottom line profitability |
| So we're quite excited about the growth potential for automation |
| It is an exciting time as we reshape the company and position Barnes for sustainable, profitable growth |
| So we're seeing very strong orders |
| Adjusted EBITDA was $33 million, up 4% and adjusted EBITDA margin was 16%, up 80 basis points benefiting from positive pricing and favorable productivity due in part to transformation-related activities, partially offset by lower sales volumes and mix |
| The addition of MB Aerospace to our portfolio positions us as a more attractive partner that enables deeper customer relationships and the ability to win additional contracts |
| We continue to further scale this business through integration and synergies which will drive growth, operational excellence, and margin expansion |
| Adjusted operating income was $48 million, up 36% and adjusted operating margin of 11.5% was up 30 basis points, largely attributable to our restructuring program |
| We are experiencing solid momentum as we execute numerous transformation initiatives in support of accelerating our growth and profitability |
| On top of that, we do have some persistent supply chain issues that haven't helped, but we're working with our customers and suppliers to mitigate these, and we're making solid progress |
| A very strong backlog |
| There are multiple work streams underway across the company for improved predictable financial performance and to maximize value |
| In closing, we have made significant advancements on many fronts in becoming a near $1 billion aerospace business as we position ourselves for further organic and inorganic growth |
| There has been solid advancement in identifying and executing synergies |
| A solid strategy that we're in the process of executing to make that vision a reality and a passionate team that has proven they know how to deliver results |
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| We still are concerned about China market weakness |
| Fourth quarter sales were $203 million, down 1% reported and down 4% organic |
| And of course, we're bringing MB in which doesn't have an RSP program, that's going to drive our overall margin down |
| We do see market weakness in markets like China |
| We feel that we have struggled competitively in certain markets against other competition in the Hot Runner markets that have hurt our market share |
| The outlook for the year on low single-digit organic, what gives you the -- I know you gave a lot of color originally to Matt’s question but I think the organic order flow was down 11% |
| And we've been obviously struggling with long lead times to continue to book business with customers until we can clear that backlog |
| For Industrial, we expect sales down in the mid-teen range with organic sales growth up low single digits when taking the announced divestiture into account |
| But primarily right now, I would say, in China, we were expecting kind of weaker conditions |
| So we've tempered our expectations accordingly based on the information we have from competitive and market information |
| Some of the productivity challenges that I talked about earlier on the OEM side of the business as we work through those and we get the work through the factories, those sales fall to the bottom line in a very predictable way |
| So the core earnings loss isn't -- I'm wondering what the kind of operational -- foregone operational earnings |
| But -- just wanted to make sure that I'm thinking about this right to see order declines both in the quarter that were pretty big in order declines for the year that were still there |
| We expect the impact to 2024 to be a negative 11% to revenue and negative 10% to adjusted EBITDA |
| Adjusted operating profit of $27 million was up 53% and while adjusted operating margin declined 360 basis points to 12.8%, reflecting the impacts of MB's portfolio mix and the amortization of long-term acquired intangibles |
| We've been hit with a lot of inflation, energy, freight, labor, materials, supply chain disruption, longer lead times |
| Michael Ciarmoli So you're losing $20 million of operating income on that |
| Adjusted EBITDA margin was 21.5% versus 24.9% a year ago, impacted by portfolio mix and productivity |
| But I think Hot Runners for the most part in the hot heads [ph] part of the product lines globally will be kind of a recovery year from some of the market share loss in 2023 |
| Molding Solutions organic sales increased 1%, while Motion Control Solutions organic sales were down 10% and Automation was down 7% |
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