Acter Group Co., Ltd. (will be abbreviated “Acter” in the after, stock code :5536) attended the online TPEx Corporate day hold by Taipei Exchange today. Acter optimizes the custom duty effect of USA-China trade war and epidemic accelerate the global supply chain reconstruction pushing the trend of expanding investment in Taiwan and Southeast area. Acter continues the multi-industries, multi-regions and multi-jobs strategy , the Group has operation sites in Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia which provides the business expand advantage. The Group has excellent increased in orders for Taiwan and Southeast area and keeps maintaining of the uncompleted projects growth, will provide a well growth momentum for the future operation.

The Group’s main business included cleanroom engineering, electro-mechanical integration and high-tech process equipment integration service. On a consolidated basis, revenue for the first three quarters of 2020 is NTD 10.253 billion, net profit attribute to parent company is NTD 697 million and EPS is $12.85(NTD). Although the China area effected by USA-China trade war, the Group benefit continues to grow from cleanroom electromechanical integration business in Taiwan and Southeast area, the regional revenue proportions of Taiwan and others (included Southeast Asia) for the first three quarters of 2020 has a further growth which is 49%, compares to the same period of last year which is 43%. Besides, Taiwanese companies bring back their investment to Taiwan, the manufacturing industry also accelerate the steps of diversify production bases. The main diversify production bases located in Thailand, Indonesia and Viet Nam. The revenue proportion of Taiwan is around 43% and has a significant growth compares to the same period of last year which is 37%. The revenue proportion of Southeast area stays the same percentage as last year but the revenue amount has a slightly growth. In the trend of companies shift their production capacity to Southeast area, Acter’s Southeast area revenue proportion will have a significant benefit and growth.

According to the estimation of Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC), the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry capital expenditure of 2020 will increase. It is estimated that the global semiconductor industry continues invest in advanced process R&D and fab demand, push semiconductor industry invest around USD84.581 billion capital expenditure next year and has a 17.8% growth compares to this year which is USD 71.78billion capital expenditure. For be involved in diverse industries first level clients’ supply chains, the key points of Acter are continuing research and developing diversify process method to meet the demand of diverse industries for electromechanical and cleanroom engineering to shorten the process of factory expand, increases new engineering value, efficiently satisfy client’s high quality demands, provides excellent and reliable one stop service from factory place to factory equipment’s horizon and vertical integration. For the view of industrial application, the industrial revenue proportions of semiconductor, electronic assembly, green energy , biomedical and others for the first three quarters of 2020 are 51%, 20%,13%, 5% and 11%.

Acter’s multi-industries, multi-jobs and multi-regions operation strategies are pretty successful for the result. Acter’s revenue for the past ten years (2009~2019) growth from NTD 4.6 billion to 12.7 billion and the compound annual growth rate is around 10.7%. So far Acter has 1,277 employees, company market value is around NTD10.5 billion (USD 0.35 billion) and has a sable annual benefits and dividends.

Acter applied the issuance of first time unsecured convertible bond amounting to NTD 0.8 billion. The purposes of fundraising are for the Group’s further medium and long term development and enhance the financial structure. The conversion price is set at NT$196.4 per share today with a conversion premium rate at 102.03% and the fundraising is estimated to complete by the end of November.

For outlook of future operation, Acter keeps the same operation strategy and continues focus in cleanroom engineering, electromechanical integration, high-tech process equipment integration service, optimize engineering technology ability to provide diversify and multi-jobs engineering integration service. Acter actively enhances the regions client satisfaction, deepens the industries business and continues follow the trend of epidemic, the business scope has the chance to further expand in the future for the expanding demand and capital expenditure of industries.

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ACTER GROUP CORPORATION LIMITED  Senior Manager  Miss Tsao  (04)2261-5288  ir@acter.com.tw