Oerlikon

• Orders received grew faster and more robustly than expected, book-to-bill ratio rose from 1.1 to 1.3.
• Asia as significant growth engine, with share of sales climbing to 41 percent.
• EBIT improved by more than CHF 130 million to CHF -31 million.
• Operational restructuring continued and optimized. Around 85 percent of more than 700 restructuring measures implemented.
• Successful recapitalization led to debt reduction of around CHF 1 billion, CHF 276 million in new liquidity and equity ratio of 35 percent.
• Company targets for sales growth increased to around 15 percent; earnings expectations confirmed to reach operational break even before restructuring costs in the second half of the year.
   
• Media release August 17th, 2010
• Interim Report 2010 (pdf-file - 620 KB)
• Interim Report 2010 as Flash-pdf
  (Flash 8.0 required)
• Group key figures (pdf-file)
• Presentation of the first half year 2010 (pdf - 620 KB)

Press conference

• Replay of the half annual press conference – 17.08.2010 – 10:30 am (only german)

• Replay of the half annual analysts conference – 17.08.2010 – 2:00 pm (only english)

Next event:

Oerlikon in the first nine months 2010

2010/10/21 | Trading update and conference call