Haynes International, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAYN) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Michael L. Shor: We are confident as long as raw materials remain neutral. We look at the back half of this year, given our bookings, which are consistently over 50 million a month. We look at the back half of the year as extremely strong for us. So we are melting for that now. So we are still melting at an elevated level as compared to what we are shipping as this product begins to get through the employees that are now in and are being trained or getting ready to process this. So we expect the second half of the year be based on the bookings we have and based on the manpower we have in place and the training that is ongoing right now to be very strong. And so, yes, the answer is we’re already melting for that. We just want to get to the point where we’re leveling out our shipments with what we’re currently melting.

Steve Ferazani: Fair, fair. Thanks Mike. Thanks, Dan.

Michael L. Shor: Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. And your next question this morning is coming from Michael Leshock from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Michael, your line is live. Please go ahead.

Michael Leshock: Hey guys, good morning.

Michael L. Shor: Good morning, Mike.

Daniel W. Maudlin: Good morning.

Michael Leshock: I wanted to start off on CAPEX, as you had mentioned, it was lower this quarter and your guidance implies an increase throughout the remainder of the year. Are you still seeing some constraints there to get the work done or is that easing now? And then maybe secondly, could you talk about some of the projects that you have underway or that are planned for the balance of the year?

Daniel W. Maudlin: Sure. As far as the constraints, the constraints that we have are really getting what we need in for each of the components of our CAPEX projects. So we — it’s not at this point any longer, any type of internal constraint. Our plan would be when we take equipment down to upgrade it, we would build an inventory after that and from there, be able to do these outages that we need. So our issues right now in CAPEX are clearly related to getting the equipment in. We obviously had a very light first quarter in CAPEX to be frank, that wasn’t intentional. It’s just that we’re not getting in what we need to get into our company, as far as equipment and components to put things together for us.

Michael L. Shor: And then on, go ahead.

Daniel W. Maudlin: I was going to mention some of the projects. I think we’ve mentioned, some of the reliability of equipment and alleviating some of the bottlenecks as it goes through the process. There’s an A&K line, for example, where we’re spending a sizable amount of CAPEX around $5 million. So we’re going to be upgrading that line as well. So, yeah

Michael L. Shor: Just to give you a list of what we’ve got going on right now. We’ve got what was in process or recently completed is our solar field at the wire facility. We’re now beginning work on the solar field in our tube facility. We have water jet cutting, incremental water jet cutting in our LaPorte service center. We’ve completed our Haynes Wire Cleaning. We’ve done some control upgrade work for manufacturing for security purposes of our systems, some grinders. We are in the process of putting the final touches on what’s called the automatic gauge control system at the four high. Most critical piece of equipment that’s truly the brain of the operation, and some other grinders. And then of course our big upgrade coming is our A&K line, and that’s Mike in between the four mill and finishing.