GMM Pfaudler Limited has informed the Exchange regarding Analysts/Institutional Investor Meet/Con. Call UpdatesTranscript of Earnings Call held on August 19, 2019.
“GMM Pfaudler Limited Q1 FY’20 Earnings Conference Call”
August 19, 2019
MANAGEMENT: MR. TARAK PATEL – MANAGING DIRECTOR
MR. ASHOK PILLAI – CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
MR. JUGAL SAHU – CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
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Moderator:
Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to GMM Pfaudler Limited Q1 FY’20 Earnings
Conference Call. As a reminder, all participants' lines will be in listen-only mode and there will
be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Should you need
assistance during the conference call, please signal an operator by pressing '*' then '0' on your
touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand the conference
over to Mr. Binay Sarda from Christensen IR. Thank you and over to you, sir.
Binay Sarda:
Good evening to all the participants on this call. Before we proceed to the call, let me remind
you that the discussion may contain forward-looking statements that may involve known or
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. It must be viewed in conjunction with our
business risk that could cause future results performance or achievements to differ significantly
from what is expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Please note that we have
made the ‘Results’, and the ‘Press Release’ and the same are available on the company’s website.
In case if you have not received the same, you can write to us and we will be happy to send the
same over to you.
To take us through the results and answer your questions today, we have the top management of
GMM Pfaudler, represented by Mr. Tarak Patel – Managing Director; Mr. Ashok Pillai – COO
and Mr. Jugal Sahu – CFO.
We will start the call with brief overview of the quarter gone past and then conduct the question-
and-answer session. With that said, I will now hand over the call to Mr. Tarak Patel. Over to
you, sir.
Tarak Patel:
Thank you, Mr. Sarda. Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. Firstly, let me apologize that we
could not host this call a little bit earlier. Our board meeting was last week but because of the
AGM and the other meetings that we had planned, we had to postpone it and we are finally doing
it today.
Let me give you a quick background about Q1. So, revenue grew by 40%; we closed the quarter
at Rs.130 crores Vs Rs.93 crores in the previous year same quarter; compared to the previous
quarter we grew by 8%, Rs.130 crores this quarter Vs Rs.120 crores previous quarter. The
EBITDA for Q1 increased by 56% YoY Rs.23.9 crores Vs Rs.15.3 crores the same quarter in
the prior year and 41% QoQ; Rs.23.9 crores Vs Rs.17 crores in the previous quarter. EBITDA
as a percentage of revenue also increased by 2%, 18% this quarter Vs 16% previous quarter last
year and 4% QoQ, 18% this year Vs the last quarter which was 14%. Both PBT and PAT also
up; PBT increased by 47% YoY and 25% QoQ; profit after tax increased by 60% YoY, Rs.14.6
crores Vs Rs.9.1 crores previous year and 35% QoQ, Rs.14.6 crores Vs Rs.10.8 crores.
The improvements are quite significant. We started off the year with the very strong quarter
which puts us in a very strong position to continue our growth story. As you know, a lot of the
growth has come from the Agrochemicals and Specialty Chemicals sector. Because of the
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slowdown in China, lot of the production is now moving to India. We continue to see investment
in these sectors.
We also believe that Pharmaceuticals will pick up; we have seen some amount of traction in
pharmaceuticals as well and hopefully going forward we will see some more development in
this sector.
Our Heavy Engineering and our Proprietary businesses are also showing significant
improvements. We are also catering to new industry segments like oil & gas, petrochemicals
and fertilizer which are new avenues of revenue for us and going forward, we are quite positive
that we will continue to grow and continue to improve in profitability as well.
So, with this, let me open this call up for questions and let us have your questions, then we can
try answer one-by-one. Thank you very much.
Moderator:
Thank you very much, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question-and-answer
session. The first question is from the line of Bhalchandra Shinde from Anand Rathi. Please go
ahead.
Bhalchandra Shinde:
Sir, would like to know how order book has grown for this quarter?
Tarak Patel:
So, the starting backlog at the beginning of this year was about 50% higher than previous year.
We are in a good position when it comes to order book as well. We have visibility for the next
two quarters. We are quite positive that over the next couple of months, we will be able to move
the orders that are required to meet the target that we set on for this financial year.
Bhalchandra Shinde:
So, this quarter also we have seen 50% growth in order book?
Tarak Patel:
So, this quarter has been a little bit slow, but we had good starting backlog, so that was important
for us, and what is also heartening is that the order book is spread out quite nicely between all
three product lines, it is not just for one product line, but this quarter also we had the good order
book, maybe not the highest order book that we have had, but certainly very strong order booking
month as well.
Bhalchandra Shinde:
Still we are with the CAPEX plan of around 3,000 equivalent units by FY’20. Are there any
changes in that CAPEX plans or it will be in that line only?
Tarak Patel:
So, there are no changes on that. The only update that I would like to give you is our new gas
furnace which we ordered about four months ago will now be shipped or has been shipped
already and we should be able to commission that by the end of September. So, that would
further improve our margin. If we can ship out all our production through only the gas furnaces,
then we would not need to use electric furnaces and that would help improve profitability as
well.
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Bhalchandra Shinde:
As you said, new streams, we have started oil & gas and petrochemical, so what kind of a scope
of work will be there, how much percentage if we consider Rs.100 crores as the CAPEX in oil
& gas and petrochemicals will be catered related to one product?
Tarak Patel:
The idea here is that these are new industry segments for us. We have been catering to these
industry segments through our heavy engineering business line; however, you know that our
traction has been slow but we have recently got approved by EIL as well and hopefully we can
improve and make more of footprint in these business lines and eventually at least 20% of our
revenue should come from the Heavy Engineering business going forward.
Bhalchandra Shinde:
And we do not require any CAPEX for that means like existing facility will cater that?
Tarak Patel:
I think we already have the CAPEX in place for that.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Kaushal Shah from Dhanki Securities. Please
go ahead.
Kaushal Shah:
If I look at the last say 8-10-quarters we have actually doubled our quarterly run rate of profits
and sales. So, the first question was on the sustainability. We already had significant growth. So,
how far do you see this strong growth sustaining? The second was your thoughts on the Heavy
Engineering business because what we witnessed was that this is I think the second quarter where
the margins have been impacted, also on the top line also in Heavy Engineering we have seen a
slightly lower number. And the third point was on the interest and the depreciation expense
which have been higher in this quarter.
Tarak Patel:
From growth prospects, that is a good question and with what is going on in the Indian economy,
we can never be too sure. Luckily for us as I mentioned there is definitely set of orders that we
already have. So, we are now running on a backlog which will give us visibility for the next two
quarters. So, that puts us in a very strong position. There are definitely projects out there. There
are large cash-rich companies which are willing to invest because the demand for their products
is increasing and with the slowdown in China, they are definitely seeing more and more interest
from foreign companies going forward. Having said that, we all know that there is liquidity
crisis, we all know that the economy is not in great shape, industry like auto, industry like real
estate and other industries are also feeling the pinch. It is definitely something that we are aware
of and definitely could also have an effect on our end industries as well which is chemicals and
pharmaceuticals. But again, these are industries that are necessary, I think pharmaceuticals,
chemicals are something that going forward will remain and will continue to invest, at least the
large companies will, maybe the smaller guys will have to take it a little bit slow, but at least
from the large investment I think and from the people that we speak to, we believe that definitely
investment will come in. You are right, we have been growing.
Kaushal Shah:
Are you witnessing any higher working capital days or something of that sort?
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Tarak Patel:
Nothing that we see because most of our receivables are received before we ship out our
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equipment. Having said that there could be cases going forward where customers would not lift
the equipment in time, they might not have the funds required to lift the equipment on time but
we are quite careful and we continuously check with the customers if their sites are ready, if
their funds are in place and prior to even starting the secondary stages of manufacturing. So,
your question was very valid, “How long will this growth continue?” The thing is that every
time we say that we are not sure, it surprises us and has been surprising us for the last few
quarters and with maybe 8-9 quarters we have always said how much work in Glass Lined grow
and it is continuing to grow. We also began work on our next five years strategic plan. So, as
you know and if you have been following our company, we are now in the final year of our
“Mission 2020” and we are very close to achieving the numbers that we had set out five years
ago. We have just started work on our next five years plan which we just presented to the board.
So, on April 1st of 2020 we will launch our next five year plan. I strongly believe that having
alignment within the organization in terms of what the strategies are, what the long-term goals
are, I think that is very important and the economy will improve, will decrease, will change, all
that is dynamic but we need to keep our heads down and keep doing what we are good at and
we will continue to do that and hopefully become stronger through good times and bad times
but I think going forward we are quite positive. If we can get through the next few quarters, I
think it is the next two or three quarters we can get through without much problem, but if the
economy then starts to revive, then I think we will end up the year strongly.
Ashok Pillai:
Heavy Engineering has of course great potential for growth as Tarak mentioned a little while
ago in response to the question asked by the previous caller that we have just started to work
again with EIL and the other agencies who really will contribute to the growth in business of
heavy engineering. So, right now it is still early days. The potential is very large because our
appetite at this point of time is relatively small. So, we do not think we will have any problem.
Once we get the new registrations in place and we are qualified as a bidder to go after the heavy
engineering business.
Kaushal Shah:
On the segment numbers?
Tarak Patel:
On the segment numbers, the first quarter was low because the opening backlog was very strong,
but now we have good amount of order backlog, in the next few quarters you will see some
improvement there.
Kaushal Shah:
Jugal sir, your comments on the financial expenses… interest and depreciation?
Jugal Sahu:
Starting this financial year, IndAS 116 – Lease Accounting is applicable to us. On account of
that, all long term rental expenses which were part of operating expenses are now moved to
depreciation/amortisation, so this amount isamount is about Rs.80 lakhs this quarter. And then
you might know that we have acquired IMSD of Sudarshan Chemical end of April this year. We
have carried out the fair valuation of all assets and liabilities including intangiblessintangibles
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in accordance with the IND AS 03, Business CombinationandCombination and on that account
there is an amortization of Intangible assets of about Rs.70 lakhs this quarter.
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Kaushal Shah:
Sir, on the IMSD, how is it doing and your thoughts about the growth plan for that particular
division?
Ashok Pillai:
IMSD and the Mixing division in GMM, we are in the process of integration, we have had
several rounds of meetings with the people who are running the IMSD in Pune, they are part of
our regular meetings and part of the strategy meetings as well. So, the business is in the process
of taking off. We are now looking at market segments that were not available to GMM in the
past especially the market in the minerals and mining in which IMSD had, but we did not have
and they are now getting used to sending their own people to the chemicals part of the business
which they were not accustomed to. So, it is an integration process that is taking place now. It is
only few months since we have started the work of integration and we think there is good
synergies are being shown, there is good enthusiasm by the people in IMSD and Mixing division
in our company. We see strong prospects as we go forward.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Sanjay Shah from KSS Securities. Please go
ahead.
Sanjay Shah:
Tarak bhai, can you elaborate on the revenue what we did in this quarter? As we see the opening
order book position and the run rate of the company, we have done much better. So, what has
worked in our favor – was it product mix or efficiency or capacity addition?
Tarak Patel:
Sanjay bhai, it is a combination of many things, I mean, firstly, I just need to give a lot of credit
to our manufacturing team at the factory, they have done exceedingly well. You have seen in the
past our first quarter has not been a very good quarter, it is always lower than Q4 of previous
year but this is one quarter where we have outperformed even Q4. I think lot of the credit goes
to the manufacturing team. They continue to break new records. I had made a statement in the
AGM that there were two months where we actually crossed 200 equivalent units which is just
amazing. We had done that last year in December, we did again in June. So, that is a big
improvement in terms of output and if we continue to do that, the sky is the limit. So, that is
something that is very exciting. There has also been a lot of improvement in pricing. So, because
of the demand in the market, we have been able to extract higher prices from our clients as well.
At the same time, material costs are probably looking like they will go down in the future. So,
there will be some amount of flow-through that you will see, not only for Glass Lined but even
our Proprietary Products division had a good starting backlog and they have also been able to
really show significant improvement there. HE was a bit slow but hopefully in the coming
months we will be able to catch up.
Sanjay Shah:
Sir, can you throw some light on our Mavag because consolidated we have not shown any growth
since many quarters?
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Tarak Patel:
It is a good opportunity for me to tell you that we cannot expect exciting numbers from Mavag
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year-on-year; the economy in Europe is slow; there is definitely pricing pressure. So, we should
expect Mavag to do anywhere between 14-15 million, they will make about 2 million profit but
they are not going to jump into double digit growth at all. There are ideas in place about how we
should probably look at Mavag and what are the next steps for Mavag to grow profitably. That
is going to take some time. But for this year I believe CHF14-15 million range is something that
we can expect from them. They will continue to be profitable but do not expect very exciting
growth rates from them.
Sanjay Shah:
Regarding our group Pfaudler, we were always on the talk that export potential is there,
opportunities are lying, they may consider, they have asked for some catalogues and
consideration was going. So, any progress on that side and do we see anything happening on that
side?
Ashok Pillai:
The amount of business Pfaudler gives you in the last two years that same level of exports has
been maintained even now. So, there are two types of exports that we get from Pfaudler – One
is a set of equipment that they buy from us and stock in Italy and they send to the local European
customers and that has been a steady order which as soon as they find that the equipment has
been sold, they send a replenishment order to us.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Jatin from Alpha Capital. Please go ahead.
Jatin:
My first question is on the segment mix where in GE we see some reduction in margins QoQ as
well as YoY. Can you throw some more light on that please?
Tarak Patel:
So, that is because of material cost. I think we must have bought the materials at higher prices
and that was probably older orders. But as I mentioned earlier, going forward, we will see
improvement because there is reduction in material cost, steel prices have come down
significantly and the materials that we are buying now for the future supplies that we will do in
Q2 and Q3 will be at the lower material cost.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ankit Gupta from Bamboo Capital. Please go
ahead.
Ankit Gupta:
Sir, just wanted to check with you. You talked about some slowdown in order inflow during the
last quarter. So, how is the situation in July and current month?
Tarak Patel:
Actually, I did not say that there was a slowdown in order book. Actually the order book was
higher than even Q4. So, maybe my comment was misunderstood. So, actually in Q1 we had a
very strong order book. Q4 and Q1 were definitely our strongest months and compared to Q1,
Q2 and Q3 of previous year, they were still significantly higher than that.
Ankit Gupta:
But are you seeing any slowdown in order inflow?
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Tarak Patel:
I would like to not say that we are seeing something but I would expect to see a slight slowdown
because the sentiment itself in the industry, in the market is a bit slow. But from what we are
expecting, I think for the next couple of months at least we have good visibility in terms of big
orders and big projects. But going forward is anybody’s guess. If money dries up and investment
is not there, but then again, we have pharmaceuticals which has not been invested for a long
time. So, maybe if we see a revival there with Hyderabad and the Telangana pharma city coming
up, that is something that could drive growth as well.
Ankit Gupta:
Because the export of chemicals companies continues to perform well but there has been no talk
of slowdown in chemicals companies which are more domestic-focused. So, my point was
coming from that angle.
Tarak Patel:
My point here is also like now auto has slowed down, lot of the specialty chemicals manufacture
do go into autos, like the tyre, chemicals, the paint chemicals, the leather chemicals. So,
indirectly, if one industry slowed down, there will be some effect, but hopefully the new
investment and the China slowdown will drive some of the growth that we are looking for.
Ankit Gupta:
Secondly, on the Proprietary Products, we continue to do quite well in the segment, I think there
has been a significant improvement on YoY as well as QoQ basis. I think the manufacturers
interest in this product. Any color on this segment how is that doing and how is the order backlog,
order inflow for the segment?
Tarak Patel:
Here we have seen again a good starting backlog. It is a combination of both Indian equipment
as well as equipment that has come through our subsidiary Pfaudler. So, that has been something
that we have been quite lucky with. So, for the USA as well as Pfaudler China have given us
large orders with good margins. We expect more orders to come from them because they found
us to be a good source of equipment especially for WFE which is a specific kind of evaporator.
You also know there are proprietary products manufactures equipment for our subsidiary Mavag.
So, that has also been an area that we have grown. In India, we have started focusing on more
of the high margin jobs. The critical jobs that is definitely demand for that. So, going forward
we believe that Proprietary Products will also grow significantly year-on-year because we had a
good starting backlog and we expect this entire year to go through quite smoothly for Proprietary
Products as well.
Ankit Gupta:
So, you expect the same growth that we are seeing in GLE segment or even more than that given
our base in the Proprietary Products going forward?
Tarak Patel:
Probably a little bit more because market share itself is quite small and we have also revamped
our processes internally to be more efficient when we manufacture. So, I think it will grow
probably a little bit faster than the Glass Lined.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Anupam Goswami from Stewart & Mackertich.
Please go ahead.
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Anupam Goswami:
How much equivalent units did we do in this quarter?
Tarak Patel:
For Q1, we did about 550 equivalent units.
Anupam Goswami:
Sir, you mentioned about pharma have not done any CAPEX for a long time. So, are we doing
good on the chemicals and fertilizer side which is why our numbers are also good over there and
going forward where do you see the industry moving up, some drivers for us?
Tarak Patel:
Good question again. Before the last couple of years about 50% of our revenue in the Glass
Lined business used to come from pharmaceuticals. Now for the last 12, 18-months, about 60%
comes from agrochemicals and specialty chemicals. So, pharmaceuticals is no longer the largest
buyer of Glass Lined equipment. As you know there have been FDA issue, there have been
pricing pressure in the US which has slowed down the pharma investment. The Bombay pharma
companies like Cipla, Lupin, Sun Pharma all have slowed down. However, we have seen this
year and we are also seeing going forward that the Hyderabad, Telangana pharma have started
to invest again. Companies like Hetero, Aurobindo, Divis Labs, they have put up large projects
as well. We have also recently seen that there have been some new rules and laws by NGT which
is the National Green Tribunal where certain cities have come within the red zone. There could
be companies in and around Baroda, Nandesari, Hyderabad and will have to relocate as well.
So, when that happens, we could see additional growth coming from that. But we expect
pharmaceuticals to revive as well. There have been quite a few months where investments have
not happened. And I am sure that these companies will also plan to invest going forward. But
like most of the people and most of the CEOs and owners of chemicals companies that we spoke
to, they had at least plan for the next three to five years. So, unless something very drastic
happens, I think investment will continue in the chemicals. Now with the trade wars with the US
as well a lot of companies want to derisk the China story as well. So, India is an option and
hopefully going forward they will continue to invest in India and chemicals and agrochemicals
and specialty chemicals will also continue to invest.
Anupam Goswami:
What are the chances that the China would also revive then, the shift could again go back to
China?
Tarak Patel:
Nobody can say specifically anything about China. We just know that the issues that they have
are such that it is unlikely that they can come back to the original levels at the same cost structure.
So, that is one thing that we can keep in mind saying that as and when they do, they may come
back in any point of time but unlikely at the same cost level. Having said, the other point that
Tarak mentioned earlier is that even if they do come back on line, most of the western countries
and most of the companies in the west have probably taken a conscious decision to derisk the
single supplier that they had China as the base and India will probably get a share of the business
going forward as well.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Alisha Mahawla from Avendus Wealth. Please
go ahead.
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Alisha Mahawla:
Just a clarification on the previous question. When you said the sales unit in this quarter was 550
units. Can you give the same number for last quarter and same quarter last year please?
Tarak Patel:
Unfortunately, I do not have the data with me. It would probably be lower because more number
of units means more revenue; there is a direct correlation between numbers of units and revenue,
so, I would expect them to be lower. The preceding quarter maybe Q4 of previous year was
about 500 and then compared to Q1 they would be significantly lower because as you know the
revenue was significantly lower.
Alisha Mahawla:
An earlier comment made by you which said that obviously considering the demand you have
also been able to charge your marginally higher prices. Will you be able to quantify how much
is that currently the price increase taken?
Tarak Patel:
No, the price increases depend from customer-to-customer, it depends on the size of the order,
the size of the reactor. So, I would not be able to quantify but over last 12-months, maybe 5-7%
price increase, but lot of it has also come from the increases that we have seen in raw material,
so things like metal prices have increased significantly, fuel prices have increased. So, we have
been passing that on to our customers.
Alisha Mahawla:
The order backlog, will it be possible for you to break that up in Glass Lined and non-glass lined
in terms of percentage?
Tarak Patel:
50% is Glass Lined and about the balance is PP and HE. As I mentioned earlier in one of the
comments was that it is evenly spread out, it is not very heavily on just one line. So, that is
actually quite heartening for us that all our product lines have a decent amount of backlog.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Kunal Bhatia from Dalal & Broacha. Please go
ahead.
Kunal Bhatia:
Just wanted to know sir, in terms of our current order book, what would be the export order and
I believe those are on a higher margin, so what kind of margins do we enjoy there? Secondly
also wanted to know, we mentioned about getting into the oil & gas. So, say for Rs.100 CAPEX
by a company, what kind of orders we could expect in that case?
Ashok Pillai:
Our share of the exports are about 12% of our revenue. Typically that is what has been happening
last year and we see the trend continuing this year as well. And we are not talking about starting
off with Glass Lined is the first point over here. The margins are significantly better for the
exports, maybe close to 1.5x the margins that we get for the domestic sector. So, therefore the
thing on the exports is. On the other issue of CAPEX for the heavy engineering sector from oil
& gas is very-very difficult to quantify because our share is so small, it is really-really very
difficult to say that what is our share of the heavy engineering CAPEX, it is not quantifiable.
Kunal Bhatia:
Sir, but what kind of orders are we expecting there?
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Ashok Pillai:
If I give you equipment orders, it has been most refineries and most petrochemicals complex
will have lot of heat exchangers, will have lot of colons, will have lot of pressure vessels and we
are looking at those types of equipment which are critical, which have high metal thickness, high
engineering requirements and high welding and other qualifications that we have qualified for
and we need orders for that type of equipment.
Tarak Patel:
Just to add to this point, we have been building our capabilities and our resources, so we have
been adding our capabilities in our factory, so we have a rolling machine now that can grow up
to 100 mm thickness, we have capability that can handle much higher thicknesses and weight as
well. We have also hired people from the specific industries that we want to cater to. So, we
bought people from competitors who have strong track record in selling heavy engineering
equipment, we have also got a manufacturing team in place now. So, going forward we believe
that we can penetrate this. Definitely need of the hour is for new vendors who are capable
because there is so much demand out there, there is so much infrastructure spending going on
that people are looking at qualified financially stable vendors who can give them and they can
give their orders too.
Kunal Bhatia:
Finally, just wanted to know the ratio between the new demand and the replacement demand
which we are getting?
Ashok Pillai:
Most of the demand we will be getting in for Glass Lined equipment is new demand. Probably
if I were to put a number to it, it will probably be 70% is new, 30% is replacement.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Riya Mehta from Anand Rathi. Please go ahead
Riya Mehta:
I had a couple of questions. Last time we spoke you said the outsourcing for increasing the total
EU. So, together with the orders in hand what is the targeted EUs for the next year?
Tarak Patel:
Good question. I think it is close to 2800-3000 is what we are planning to do, another 25%
increase over previous year.
Riya Mehta:
Could you give the total CAPEX amount that we target for the year?
Tarak Patel:
We normally spend on maintenance CAPEX of about 2%/3% of our total revenue and I think
what we have already spent on has already been completed, so we bought a new gas furnace
which will be in line in September and I do not think we have any further CAPEX planned for
this financial year.
Riya Mehta:
In this quarter’s result, we see the other income at the subsidiary level has declined significantly.
So, could you give any justification of or whether this is a new normal or how to look about it?
Jugal Sahu:
Our income from mutual funds actually decreased this quarter as we have taken a hit on some
of the mutual funds due to debt market correction.
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Riya Mehta:
Also, from industry perspective, could you just elaborate, what is the market size of the
proprietary business and where are we and what do we plan in the coming future, if you can just
give broad numbers?
Ashok Pillai:
We are looking at some amount of exports business of some of the Proprietary Products like the
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Wiped Film Evaporators which China and the US have been the sellers all over the world and
we are looking at domestic sales as well. In the domestic sales, we are looking at the high end
equipment in the filtration and drying equipment where we have a significant advantage having
the designs and all from Mavag. The other businesses are still in the initial growth stage of the
business with the Engineering Systems being one of them. Mixing is now as you know part of a
larger division with the IMSD of Sudarshan part of the mixing system group, we see great
potential for that with new market segments added to our portfolio which we did not have in the
past. So, all the product segments look good. In many of the products segments we are relatively
small both in size and market share and that gives us good opportunities for us to grow in those
segments.
Riya Mehta:
What will be your market share around for that?
Ashok Pillai:
It depends from product-to-product but we are in the 10%, 12% type of market share in many of
the product lines.
Riya Mehta:
For the synergy from the Sudarshan Chemical unit, could you give some numbers as to where
we think which will go about for this financial year and FY’21?
Tarak Patel:
We do not know about numbers that we can tell right now, but we see that the numbers will be
significantly better than what we did as a standalone unit, will probably be double the numbers
that we did in the past.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Anupam Goswami from Stewart & Mackertich.
Please go ahead.
Anupam Goswami:
Just wanted to check, we see the increasing of capacities to 200 units per month and then we
have had a plan of increasing up to 230 units per month. Are we on in line with it or have we
completed that?
Tarak Patel:
We are in line now. With the new furnace coming in, we will definitely have the capacity. We
have also improved our manufacturing backend capacity. So, the output of fabricated vessel has
also increased. And the idea is to bring our backlog down to more respectable, about a six month
period, we are quite close to that. So, yes, there will be months where we will hit the 230 mark.
Anupam Goswami:
Glass Furnace that is coming from September, how much cost can we expect from this?
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Tarak Patel:
If we do not end up using the electric furnaces, then we can see probably 0.2% - 0.3%, about 20-
30 bps.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Vijay Gala from Gala Consultancy. Please go
ahead.
Vijay Gala:
I want to know the engineering point, not heavy engineering, engineering product point of view,
what is the order position on large diameters reactors glass lined, so what has been the planning
for that?
Ashok Pillai:
From a capacity point of view, we can make very large equipment. So, the largest reactor that
we can build is 65 cubic meters and the largest tank that we can build is 80 cubic meters. We do
not have yet a single enquiry for sizes higher than 50 cubic meters. So, we have in terms of sizes
much higher than what the current Indian demand is and even higher than current international
demand from the markets that we normally serve. So, from that point of view, we are very well
prepared to handle the increasing market size that we see in the Indian industry for some time to
come.
Vijay Gala:
Heavy competition in glass lined reactors in different times. So, what do you think about it?
Tarak Patel:
The bigger the size is, the less competition we have because bigger the equipment if something
going wrong or something failing, so when the size increases, most customers would prefer to
go with GMM Pfaudler because we have a track record because the welding required, the glass
lining required, all becomes very-very critical when the size increases.
Vijay Gala:
What will be the margin in this business?
Ashok Pillai:
So, higher the size is, slightly bigger the margin. If you go for really big sizes, then the margin
increase drastically because after a certain size, we are the only company in India that can make
such large vessels. But unfortunately, the requirement for such large vessels is very limited; it
only comes once or twice a year.
Vijay Gala:
In the systems of the Europe operations, reaction and colons with resonance and drying, fitting,
everything is there, so what is the order portion in this segment?
Tarak Patel:
As I had mentioned that the order position is spread evenly; 50% was Glass Lined, 25% is Heavy
Engineering and 25% is Engineered and Proprietary Products. So, we are seeing a good backlog
in Engineered Systems also.
Vijay Gala:
In Heavy Engineering we are very lacking?
Tarak Patel:
Yes, you are right, Heavy Engineering has been a slow start this year because it is a very cyclical
business. The order book for the next few quarters is good and for Q1 of next year also is good,
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so hopefully next year. But you are right, it is a difficult market, we have entered recently, we
have to understand it, but it is still a good market, we have to pick and choose the right business
for that. We will definitely improve with that.
Moderator:
Thank you. The next question is from the line of Jatin from Alpha Capital. Please go ahead.
Jatin:
Sir, you mentioned that you will produce 550 units in Q1 and you also mentioned the 200
monthly is a very good run rate for us. Having known all these, do you think this QoQ growth
that we have witnessed in Q1, is possible in coming quarters also?
Tarak Patel:
In a coming quarter I think we expect to perform as well if not better because we have a backlog,
Manufacturing has continued to outperform, so we expect similar kind of numbers for Q2, we
definitely want to take advantage of the fact that Q1 is strong, we want to build on that. So, we
definitely this year we want to continue the same kind of numbers that we had seen last year and
build on a foundation that we have created and that will put us in a strong position going forward.
Jatin:
Sir, you mentioned a slightly slower order book growth in this quarter. Is the trend continuing
in this current quarter also?
Tarak Patel:
No, I was misquoted and I said something wrong; Q1 has actually been a very strong quarter for
growth, going forward we might see a slowdown in order book because of the liquidity crisis
and things like that, but right now we have some good order backlog, but this will take us into
at least the next two or three quarters.
Jatin:
In current quarter Q2, we have not seen any slowdown right or we are just estimating that coming
quarter order growth maybe slower?
Tarak Patel:
In the one month that we have seen, obviously, it has not been as exciting as the last two quarters,
there has been a little bit of slowdown but I cannot tell you this is the trend or not because during
any financial year we have good months and bad months but nothing that I can tell you it is an
alarming situation.
Moderator:
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question. I now hand the conference over to
the management for closing comments. Sir, over to you.
Tarak Patel:
Thank you, everybody for logging on and hopefully we will see you back here when our Q2
results are there and have a nice day.
Moderator:
Thank you very much, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of GMM Pfaudler Limited, that
concludes the conference call. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines.
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