Acter Group Co., Ltd. (will be abbreviated “Acter” in the after, stock code: 5536) and Nova Technology Corp. (will be abbreviated “NTC” in the after, stock code: 6613) hold a joint institutional investor conference. It benefits from Acter and NTC’s recent years enhanced the market competitive advantage, deepening the vertical and horizontal resource integration, effects from business take order scope expansion, and recent years’ restructuring of the global supply chain, the national governments enlarge the semiconductor industry strategy arrangement, which creates Acter and NTC have a flourish take order demand. Acter and NTC’s order backlog for the first seven months of 2022 keeps the historical high and have a double-digit percent yearly growth. So far, there is no deferred situation of recognizing the clients’ orders because of global inflation and terminal demand change. Acter and NTC rely on the operation advantage of high order momentum and high order visibility to create the future’s operation at a good growth trend.

Acter is one of the few Engineering Procurement Construction Management suppliers in a certain industry. In recent years, Acter has been dedicated to implementing the ESG through the company business, helping the clients to save energy and carbon reduction to achieve carbon neutrality, and to continuously improve the dimensions of process method technology, the cultivation of professional talents, and automatic production. Acter, leading the industry, applies the fluid mechanics’ analytical application technology and air sampling and analysis technology, which may provide ex-ante analogy analysis and post sampling analysis for the clients, optimize the layout of the cleanroom, improve the production process, reduce the production cost and increase the production yield rate, significantly increase the stability and reliability of the cleanroom, and continue to develop the green process technology and factory design plan. No matter the project process quality, the project complete delivery schedule, and the comprehensive service, Acter all required high appreciation and trust from the multi-industries clients. Acter holds the spirit of stepping ahead of the clients and becomes an important advocate of the industrial chain. Under the trend of factory projects becoming larger, Acter would become the multi-industries client’s primary cooperate partner, helping the large scale take order to increase, and renew the historical record of the order backlogs. The synergy of the Group’s optimize management push a significant increase of the output value per person, which contribute to the consolidated revenue of the first six months of 2022 reaching NTD 11.9 billion, net profit after tax attributable to the parent company amounted to NTD 0.72 billion, and Earnings Per Share (EPS) reached $12.58 (NTD), which have yearly growth 32%, 41%, and 41%, respectively. The abovementioned all performed new high record compared with the same period of the past, which emphasize Acter’s overall business take order and profitability step forward.

NTC has put a lot of effort for years in the high-tech industry of water, gas, and chemical supply system equipment field, holds the advantages of the key research and design, high-yield mass production, and service location including Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Malaysia. NTC occupied the high market share of the high-tech industry factory field in the three places across the strait, takes the strategies of business scope expansion and diverse sale regions, which include deepening the factory field, complete extended hook-up and project service, and aggressively enlarging the wet process equipment business take order to step in the process field business. In the meantime, NTC enlarged the take-order performance of the Taiwan and China regions. Especially, the first half-year of the regional sale in Taiwan had an 86.08% yearly increase and increased the percentage of the revenue to 46.49%. The appearance of important strategy effects, it’s helpful for NTC’s overall operation stably develop and create good growth momentum. Regardless of China’s Covid-19 lockdown, the first half-year consolidated revenue reached NTD 3.54 billion, net profit after tax attributable to the parent company amounted to NTD 0.36 billion, and Earnings Per Share (EPS) reached $10.60 (NTD), which all reached a new milestone of the company operation.

Outlook the future operation, recent years Acter enhanced on deepening the professional technology research and development, cultivation of international talents, automatic production, and internal management synergy, it’s effectively improved Acter and NTC’s overall market competitive ability. Acter will continue to implement the important business development strategies, simultaneously optimize the business take order structure, and provide the overall operation momentum. Secondly, Acter’s subsidiary Acter Technology Integration Group Co., Ltd. applied IPO in China have accepted by the examination meeting and wait for the verification of the authority. The overall procedure follows the schedule to proceed and if the IPO application has been completed, it’s helpful for accelerating the expansion of China and international business, attracting local professional talents, increasing market reputation, and increasing the company’s competitive ability. On the other hand, Acter optimizes the global green trend, and under the highly changeable market circumstance, the winning key point of market business is controlling abundant resources. Acter and NTC deepen the vertical and horizontal resource integration, use the team play strategy expand the business scope, and do not rule out finding new business alliance, all-round perfect the overall business competitive advantage, create future’s operation stably step forward.

Under the consideration of unaffected the original shareholder’s equity, Acter and NTC in order to increase the outstanding shares, let more investors involved, and prosper the market transactions, resolved to change the share par value to one-half of the original share par value. The rights and obligations of these shares for the replacement are the same as for the original shares, but the net worth per share, earnings per share, and the share price shall become one-half of the original shares, the overall shareholder’s equity remain the same as the original shares. NTC is in the trading suspension period of original shares. TPEx listing and trading date for the new shares is August 29, the reference price of the new shares is one-half of the closing price NTD 169 of August 17(the last trading date). Acter’s last trading date for the old shares is September 6, the trading suspension period of original shares is from September 7 to September 16, the record date for the replacement of shares and the effective date of the conversion price adjustment of the convertible bond is September 16, TPEx listing and trading date for the new shares is September 19, the reference price of the new shares is one half of the closing price of the last trading date, and the adjusted conversion price of the convertible bond is also one-half of the original conversion price.

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Acter Assistant Vice President  Miss Tsao  (04)2261-5288  IR@acter.com.tw