Basque region, Spain-based seamless stainless steel pipe producer Tubacex has announced its financial results for 2017.
In the given year, the company registered a total turnover of €490.4 million, decreasing by 0.7 percent year on year, while it recorded a net loss of €19.7 million compared to a net profit of €500,000 in 2016. Tubacex's EBITDA stood at €25.9 million, declining by 25.8 percent year on year, with an EBITDA margin of 5.3 percent.
The company stated that the turnover was achieved in a record-breaking year in terms of winning high technological value orders, with a backlog in excess of €700 million, whose impact will begin to materialize in the first quarter of the current year, forecasting significantly improved results from the start of the year. According to Tubacex, this improvement will be visible in 2018 and 2019, coinciding with a maximum acceleration momentum for the group industrial plans oriented to plant specialization in premium products in Austria and production increase in India. In terms of the market situation, the capital expenditure increase effect announced by the oil companies will require a length of time to be translated into a growth in demand for the group products.
“We are turning the corner of the worst crisis in history and look to the future with optimism and peace of mind in the knowledge that we have done our homework in the last three years,” stated Jesús Esmorís, CEO of Tubacex.