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Earnings Call: H2 2025

Mar 3, 2026

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Hi, everyone, welcome to this news conference on Canatu's Full Year 2025 Financial Results. My name is Mari Makkonen, and I'm in charge of investor relations. Today, our CEO, Juha Kokkonen, will begin with key messages, then CFO Mikko Vesterinen will cover the key financials, and after that, Juha will return to discuss highlights and outlook. Following the presentations, you will have the opportunity to ask questions. You may type in your questions into event chat already during the presentations. Without further ado, Juha, please go ahead.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Thank you. Thank you, Mari. Canatu is now, especially in the semiconductor domain, stronger than ever. There are four key points. We have now successfully deployed our first semicon reactor. Our customer, FST, has made significant progress of making their own product validated. On top of that one, we today announced that one of our existing customer has made purchase order to Canatu to order long lead time components for their second reactor. That way, that they can secure product delivery at the time they need it for scaling their operations to the next level. We have strengthened the organization with new talent, both in the leadership team as well as throughout the organization.

Industry, and especially semiconductor industry, is signaling a strong paradigm shift now when advanced semiconductor is moving to the 2 nm node and starting next year further towards A14 nodes. With that one, we do see kind of the high demand for CNT pellicles. In overall, when it comes to all of these advanced applications where CNT is needed, Canatu's proprietary Dry Deposition process outperformance traditional CNT wet process. Our top line message today is that Canatu is in a strong competitive position and has built solid foundation to capture customer opportunities. If you look at firstly the market drivers in semiconductor domain, the artificial intelligence and especially advanced semiconductor ecosystem is on a strong and accelerating growth trajectory.

Rising demand for advanced chips continues to drive adoption of high-power EUV scanners, driving new nodes like I was mentioning, 2 nm, and as a next step, the A14 nm to increase their power, reduce the kind of the energy consumption and doing things faster. It is driving CNT pellicles. On automotive side, we do see two key drivers that are relevant for Canatu. The higher level autonomous driving and assisted driving requires increasing number of sensors. For Canatu, the most relevant sensors are the camera sensors, and those sensors with high optical requirements. Secondly, the thermal energy optimization of battery electric vehicles through localized heating, that can be like windows windshield heating, and the next generation solar panels where energy capturing kind of the capability will increase significantly from the current state there.

On operational progress side, the first CNT100 SEMI reactor has been licensed to FST and is ready now for mass production of the CNT pellicle membranes. This is, of course, has been very important foundation for company that now the kind of the solution, product and technology from Canatu's perspective is ready for the mass production. We have made also progress in CNT pellicle validation, that kind of full product validation with our partners. We have combined and deepened the relationship and technical discussions with major players in the ecosystem, including our existing customers, but with new customers as well. This is supporting active negotiations on new orders, both existing, like announced today, and prospective customers. We have deepened our collaboration with DENSO, who has been our long-term partner, to improve CNT conductivity.

That means, as an example, that windshield heating is happening faster and more efficient manner. Developed a large-scale chamber so that we're currently our limitation is 60 cm wide that you can scale our production and the capability to address full windshield size as well as the kind of solar cells. These are kind of the very important for the future automotive applications. From the revenue perspective, Canatu's revenue has been growing like five years in row and almost 100% until this year. This year we that was a disappointment from the perspective that our revenue decreased by 24% in second half, and in full year 29%, being full year EUR 15.6 million.

The decline was mainly due to kind of what we already communicated in our announcement in mid last year, that if we are expecting, we were kind of expecting to get reactor orders, if we would get those new ones, that would have been higher, and if there would not be new reactor orders, that was the case, this revenue would have been smaller. As Canatu, we let's say over 90% our revenue is coming from the five main customers, and these reactors are playing a key role at the moment there. This was the kind of the case in this year. We have been investing for growth. We have accelerated investments in medical diagnostics by creating an expert team and advancing technical capabilities.

We, with clear focus on delivering ultra-sensitive proof of concept solution and alpha prototype for hormone testing this year. This is targeting so that we would be ready by end of this year for pre-clinical studies. We have built business development team to create a solid pipeline of new high-value application for our CNT with enhanced resources. We have strengthened our ecosystem collaboration and public funding to accelerate time to market. We have upgraded our manufacturing capability for higher volumes. We have been building our second factory so that the total production space will be over 5,000 sq m and enabling multiple parallel reactor builds. Infrastructure is complete, and the clean room remains on track for completion in first half of 2026. I hand over to Mikko, our CFO, to cover key financials.

Mikko Vesterinen
CFO, Canatu

Thank you, Juha. Like Juha told, the revenue last year and second half declined on a year-on-year basis. The drivers behind that were slower than anticipated customer approvals, which delayed both revenue recognition and then also had an impact on the follow-on reactor orders. Margin-wise, our gross margin, despite the decline in the revenue increased, and that was driven by the changes in the revenue mix. Larger share of licensing based revenue and a lower share of reactor sales, among other things. At the same time, adjusted EBIT decreased substantially, which was driven first and foremost by the decrease in the revenue, but also due to our investments in the future growth.

We've been recruiting and the headcount has increased on full-time equivalent basis, like 20% in the second half, and almost the same number for growth for the full year. Capital expenditure increased in second half by over 50%. On a full-year basis, it remained on a similar level to full year 2024. It's our capital expenditure is by nature fluctuates between the half years. For instance, we announced last year an investments into PELMIS particle scanner, which was expected to arrive by the end of last year, but that was delayed due to this year. That kind of has an impact in our capital expenditure all the times.

PELMIS is now expected to arrive during H1 2026. Despite the decline in revenue, our cash position and equity ratio balance sheet remains strong, and that obviously gives us a flexibility going forward still to, like, invest in growth and also, like, a good negotiation position. If you look at the revenue by business unit. Semiconductor business unit made a revenue of EUR 10.8 million in full year 2025. Automotive almost EUR 5 million. Automotive grew very well year-on-year, and that growth was driven by a strategic cooperation with DENSO first and foremost. On the semiconductor side, the decline was driven by these reasons we have already mentioned.

Delay in customer approvals and lack of follow-on reactor orders. On the good side, we were able to, like Juha said , complete the SAT for the first reactor last year, and then we also, like, sold a commercial license to FST in second half, and that was also fully recognized as revenue in second half. With regards inspection membranes, the revenue or demand decreased in absolute terms, but it continued to be a significant or considerable contributor to our revenue throughout the year 2025. Now I hand over back to Juha.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Thank you, Mikko. I will go to highlights and outlook. Firstly, I think that this is familiar picture I hope with you. What is happening in the industry is that AI and mobile computing and cloud computing are driving for better and more efficient nodes. Currently, 2 nm chips are ramped up, and the next node is 1.4 nm. It's called A14. What we do see there in the marketplace, and it seems to be the also the industry consensus, that this inflection point between composite pellicles to CNT pellicles is happening now, especially with this next node, which comes with higher power ASML scanners.

However, we do expect that already Canatu's CNT membranes and the pellicles done based on that one will be used for 2 nm technology. There was a SPIE conference last week, the major advanced lithography conference, where ASML already showed and demonstrated their capability to grow the power to the 1,000 W level. That is, of course, very good news for us, and they actually thought that that could improve the throughput by 30% in 2030. This roadmap could be even accelerated. Our progress with our Korean customer, FST.

The FST is now key industrial partner for Canatu, holding commercial production license and operating our reactors there to manufacture CNT pellicles, so they need to do based on these membranes certain further steps like coating, inspection, mounting that one on the mask for semiconductor labs. We got this approval last summer, and then we got. They wanted to get license for the mass production in October 25. They have made significant progress with the further steps where you need to then validate that one in EUV scanners, getting the third-party certification by ASML, and getting the final certification by the end customers.

I think that it's public knowledge that, and public news that FST has, for example, selling pellicle inspection tools as well as pellicle mounting tools for Samsung Taylor factory in U.S.A. that will start to deliver and manufacture, for example, Tesla's AI chip. Based on this one, we do expect to start getting more consumable sales, but especially what will be very important for us is the royalties on each CNT pellicle that is sold by FST to their final customer. This is the familiar picture for you as well. You know, we covered kind of where we are with FST. With foundry customer, we have made a recently very, very significant progress there.

Then the next key step there is that there is a site acceptance testing for the first reactor on that side. Then, like mentioned, we have had new reactor negotiations with existing customers, and we announced already this one that there is this purchase order for long lead time components that we can guarantee the reactor. The final definite agreement negotiations are still ongoing. I think that where we do believe that our position on the marketplace, like communicated here, is significantly better compared to time when we made these first contracts. Therefore, we have, of course, discussions there, how could we even improve the current terms what we have there. That takes now some time. Customer wanted to secure the timeline for this reactor deal there.

Then we are having discussions with new customers, like I have been telling that I do see that there can be in this market two, three, maximum four players. Now we have two customers here, and I think that there could be room at least for one new player in this market when it comes to this nodes like based on the DUV technology that are larger than 7 nm technology, there are four pellicle vendors. Automotive side, like Mikko mentioned, our automotive revenue grew and more than doubled last year. There, the kind of the key driver for this one has been these battery electric vehicles and the collaboration with DENSO. We have a long-term relationship there.

What our customer do see there is that there is clear trend for energy optimization for enhanced HVAC system, and that means like heating, ventilation, air conditioning. To provide their localized heating, and especially now in our case it means that windshield side windows will be heated through localized film heating. That will save significantly energy, and also enable us to have significantly smaller HVAC systems there that will make cockpit design significantly more living room-like. The second key element and driver here is next generation [sono] solar panels, where energy capturing efficiency could be improved up to 40%. That is very significant compared to current technology there. That would be then a possibility to extend range while parking a car in sunny place.

This collaboration is very important and we have been doing these performance improvements. We have been now doing this large scale chamber that enable us to have very sizable CNT films for these solar panels as well as for the windshield. We are kind of the targeting to improve also productivity and cost through our throughput by high performance HPR reactors. This HPR stands for high performance reactor. On the medical diagnostics side, we are accelerating investments in ultra-sensitive, low cost, scalable point of care diagnostics. Our aim is to become a leading point of care solution provider in hormones and infectious diseases, addressing the current sensitivity gap.

Basic idea what is there is that the same what you have on the hospital level lab diagnostics that takes like hours, if not days, can be done in point of care in minutes, in cost efficient manner with almost without any education for the nurses to do this one. That's kind of the basic idea driving towards point of care. We have now demonstrated strong scientific progress with two published papers, and the third one is on the peer review. I really like this third one. It has not been published yet, but it is truly demonstrating the CNT capability and sensitivity benefit over the competitive materials and technologies there. We are gonna strengthen capabilities by enhancing the development competencies, recruiting global talent.

We have established our organization in USA in addition to our team in Finland. Key task for this year is that having the integrated proof of concept system and functional alpha prototype for hormone detection, so that we can start preclinical tests already in this year. Like I have been talking many times, that most of the Canatu's applications for these most advanced CNTs, the ideas have been coming from our customers. One like pellicles or inspection filters or heating elements and so on. Now what we are building is a strong new business and product development team with dedicated experts. Really the idea is to accelerate the time to market for these high value applications.

The key focus areas here, what we do see are microelectronics, building on top of what we have done on the semiconductor domain, and electrochemical sensing, what we are building then on top of these medical diagnostics. We are here leveraging the public funding to accelerate time to market for these high value applications. When we look at the financial outlook and when we look at this year, Canatu continues to see strong long-term potential in its three business focus areas: semiconductor, automotive, and medical diagnostics. We decided that Canatu does not issue any specific numerical guidance for financial year 2026.

However, I'm going on the next slide to cover what are the key operational targets for 2026, and based on that one, you will understand pretty well what is the kind of the target level for our revenue in this year time? Why we are not doing this one? The main reason is that we are in the middle of the customer negotiations with our key customers for expanding the reactor sales. Very much going to this scale-up phase, as well as on the automotive side, having the big customer where the deals have not been closed yet. Therefore, we decided that it's better not to give this guidance, but we will give you very clear operational targets what we would like to achieve.

When it comes to long-term targets, the board of directors has assessed, and today they decided to withdraw its previously communicated long-term financial targets of over EUR 100 million revenue and an EBIT margin of over 30% in 2027. This is very much based on what we were already communicating in our last year results page, as well as what I was telling about some delays with some new customer deals. Therefore, we came into conclusion that we cannot anymore achieve this EUR 100 million revenue next year. We are going to give our new target in our Capital Markets Day on 26th of March. Now in three weeks' time. Very important slide here. What are the key operational targets for 2026?

We say that we are having extremely competitive position when it comes to our pellicle technology, and we of course want to maintain and strengthen this position where we have done a lot of work last year to secure that position, both for the reactor technology as well as for inspection membranes. We target to complete the customer approval for the second, for the foundry customer. Sell at least one new CNT100 reactor. The first one, we received the kind of the purchase order for long lead time items. Based on Canatu's technology, our customer will already start selling pellicles. That will mean that we will start to get consumables, but especially royalties on CNT pellicles sold.

Building our manufacturing capability so that we can build multiple parallel reactors in our factory in Finland. On automotive side, the targets are for to start mass production of ADAS camera heaters with a lead customer, what we do have there. Complete the joint development projects on CNT conductivity and large scale chamber with our lead customer, DENSO there. In advance the development of the ADAS camera heater concept with enhanced material configuration in windshield glass. The basic idea there is that we will make integration of the Canatu CNT film more easier as well as more cost efficient for windshield manufacturers to integrate that one inside the windshield. Continue developing full windshield heaters and next-generation solar cells with those enormous benefits what they are.

As a new item, sell one high-performance CNT100 HPR, so high-performance reactor, to an automotive customer. On medical diagnostics side, we already very much covered this one. Develop one integrated proof of concept system and a functional alpha prototype for hormone monitoring. Publish scientific papers to build strong proof of concepts and proof points for that one. On business development side, we have received lot of new application candidates from the ecosystem. We want to evaluate at least 10 new applications and identify the most promising business cases, primarily from microsystems and electrochemical sensing domains. As you remember, this Canatu CNT material, where we are making the most advanced CNTs, that's like a silicon, so you can do various applications based on that one.

This our system is like a platform that you can easily build new applications without significant new investments there. We target to start one new development agreement with a credible, significant industry player. As a summary, our key message there is that Canatu has strong competitive position and solid foundation to capture customer opportunities. AI and advanced semiconductor ecosystem is strong and accelerating growth. This is rising demand for advanced chips, for high-power scanners, new nodes, and thus also for CNT pellicles. On automotive side, assisted driving requires high optical requirements, especially for the camera sensors. Thermal energy optimization requires new type of heating solutions, localized heating, and getting their next generation solar panels to extend the range of the cars.

Operational progress has been significant there. We have basically proven our technology capability for our main product domain for the EUV CNT pellicles. We have made significant progress with the key industry partners, with our existing ones and with the new ones there. These supports support active negotiation on new orders, both existing, like announced something today, and prospective customers. We have deepened collaboration with DENSO to improve our conductivity and develop large-scale chambers. We are investing for growth, for the future growth in medical diagnostic domain to develop new solid application domains with accelerated to accelerate time to market. We are right now expanding our manufacturing capability to build multiple parallel reactors in our factory in Finland.

As a summary, Canatu has gained momentum and strengthened the competitive edge in CNT pellicles and continues to invest in future growth. Thank you.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Thank you, Juha, now it's time for questions. Let's start with questions from the audience here at Sanomatalo.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

Hi, it's Atte Riikola from Inderes. Let's start with the semiconductor sector. First question about the second reactor customer that is still in the SAT process. Has there been any new delays with the customer, what kind of visibility you have for the situation?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, we have a very kind of good visibility, and there has not been any further delays with that one.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

About the FST and the royalties that are coming maybe this year. Are you expecting meaningful royalties already this year when the mass production starts, or can you say anything about that?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think that we don't have very good visibility on that one, so that what will be the volumes there. In some way, they would be, I think that maybe on the range of the, not yet like super meaningful, I would say that way, because there's will be the ramp-up phase, and the first kind of the pellicles will be used, but I think that that will be super important for us.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

Can you say anything about CNT pellicle price levels in the overall level on the market and if we then think about the price of the pellicle and then the royalty that you're getting from per pellicle. Anything on that topic?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think we don't have a visibility on our customers' contracts there. If you think about what we do know, and it's kind of very much like a public information, that composite pellicle prices varies roughly between $35,000-$50,000, so that's the range level. Of course, with CNT pellicle, that's providing more value. You get better throughput using the CNT pellicles. Of course, then it will be the question that what will be the competition. If there will be only these two players, there will be quite a little competition, and then the kind of the position of the players will be, of course, extremely good. If there will be more players, then there will be more competition, then that might kind of the effect to the pricing.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. Are you still expecting customers to start using CNT pellicles in EUV machines that have power less than 600 W?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yes.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

Yes. No changes are there. You're targeting the sale at least one new SEMI reactor this year, and if you think about the key reasons what has been postponing the sales of a new SEMI reactors, could you highlight those reasons?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think that what was the key reasons happened mostly last year. As we delivered these reactors 2024, it has been taking time for our customers to, first of all, get approval for the, for the reactor and the Canatu delivery. At the same time, they are developing the coating method so that this pellicle will last a long time. The ASML target is 10,000 wafers in the real scanner environment. They are developing the coating on top of that one and then getting all the approvals for that one. You need to have a ASML approval so that your warranty of those scanners is valid.

You need to get approval from the foundry customer or foundry itself it can be when they are developing this one, so that it is ready for the process. That has been the kind of the key delay. Now I think that we are getting into kind of stage where the scaling will start. That's very important that there has been the development time. There has been the validation time. Now we are entering to the scaling time. That's critical for us.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

Can you say anything about that how much faster you could deploy now the second reactor, for example, to the FST now when all of those different validations have been already done?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Significantly.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. You said that you are now targeting when you have increased the capacity to build, like, multiple reactors at the same time. Can you say anything about how many reactors you are targeting to build at the same time?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

No. Yeah, I think that we have this new factory, and we have the room to build a space such a way that we can address the market demands. Whatsoever will be the market demand, we will have a capability to address that one.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

About the revenue development in inspection membranes, I think or at least in the past years you have been talking that business is growing, and now you said that the revenue declined. What's the reason behind that, and are you still expecting that business to grow in the coming years?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think that, in long term, we do expect that business to grow. The key thing there is that the customer... Let me have another example there. There's one customer from the DUV inspection market who launched their first product 2005. They were still selling last year like tens of those equipments 20 years later. We do expect the same thing happening on the EUV side. Hey, these tools will be sold during the next 10, maybe even 20 years' time. That will mean that the number of the tools will grow and grow and grow every year. The reason why there has been now lower sales than earlier years, there are mainly two reasons.

The reason number one and the key reason is that there has been certain maintenance cycle for that tool, let's say X days. That has been not driven by Canatu's inspection membrane but by some other element inside the tool. Now that some other element has managed to extend the maintenance cycle, basically doubling that one. That has led into situation that also our inspection filters are not changed so regularly that they used to be changed. It has been kind of expanded like double the time. That has now, for time being, kind of lowered the demand there. As the kind of number of the inspection tools again grows, we are then capturing again the kind of the growth part there.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

You have talked in this business that there is, like, potential to expand the business, for example, in optical filters and whatnot. How is that development going on?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

We don't have today to announce any, like, product, mass product, cases there yet.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. Still about the competitive position. You say now that there is two players on the market, so could you a little bit open up more the situation and how you're seeing is there any new competitors coming in or any different materials than CNT for the future pellicles?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah. If I'm starting with the latter one, I just participated last week in San Jose, the SPIE conference. That is the kind of the leading yearly conference for advanced lithography. There was kind of the one presentation about the future pellicles there, that was with material called beryllium. This beryllium material is extremely toxic material, and there are industry very strong opinions that they will not accept beryllium as a material for pellicles. That's kind of the... From the competition perspective, we do see that CNT is something to now prevail for as long as the kind of the... we have visibility here. What was your other question?

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

About the current players in the CNT pellicle market.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Okay. Okay.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

I think you are the other one, and then there's the.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

We do know that LINTEC has been developing their CNT pellicle. We haven't seen any traction that they would have done. They even asked whether Canatu could provide them CNT reactors, sell them CNT reactors, so that maybe is kind of the quite a strong indication what is their position right now in the market. We, of course, do know that Mitsui has been trying to develop the CNT pellicle. Last year they announced that they would have make the kind of the public announcement by end of last year. That did not happen. We do know also from public sources that pellicle is non-coated, so you can think about what is then the lifetime of that pellicle.

From that perspective, we can say that we are in extremely strong position when it comes to this, our main business. We go to next nodes, and it will start to scale.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. Then couple of questions from automotive side. You mentioned that you are targeting to deliver the first reactor on there also, so how that compares to the reactors in semiconductor business and is, for example, from the revenue perspective?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think that there this approach is slightly different compared to the kind of semiconductor domain. First of all, I think that when we are talking about maybe putting a little bit of background to understand it better is that, first of all, that when we are talking about, for example, windshield heating applications or solar cells, we are potentially talking about millions of square meters, so huge amount of CNT. Therefore, from the business model perspective, what we have been preliminary discussing with our key partners there is that Canatu would not be a player who will have factories all over the world, in Mexico, in China, in all over the place to develop this one.

The basic idea there is that this would be, again, more like licensing business rather than Canatu to be huge manufacturer of CNT pellicles, CNT films. Therefore, this is like the first reactor we are negotiating to deliver to our key partner in this domain so that they can start preparing their development. They still need to do further development there. They're making the kind of the production setup development there. This is not yet targeted for mass production, this reactor. That is the kind of little bit different approach compared to semiconductor where these reactors are targeted for mass production.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. I think last year the revenue from automotive side was mainly from those development projects with DENSO and something other under the hood. Are you expecting this year the automotive revenue to grow, or can you say anything about that?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Do you, Mikko, want to answer for that one?

Mikko Vesterinen
CFO, Canatu

I think we will not comment about the actual, like, outlook for the automotive separately. Like we've been now telling about these projects and potential going forward, I think that the base is solid for this year and there are, like, key targets what we aim to reach this year. If we are successful in those, it should be good.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. Last question from me. Your headcount increased quite a much last year, what kind of recruitment or investment needs you have for this year? Are you gonna keep on going with the same pace with recruitments even though your revenue expectations have been delayed compared to the listing?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

I don't expect that we are going to grow as fast as we did last year because we made our major investments for example, to semiconductor, that we really secured our competitive position there. We made major investments to the medical diagnostics, we basically, we had a very, very small team and we grew the team as a kind of this second element. Those were the main headcount contributors there. We update our management team. I don't see need for such a significant headcount increase in this year.

Atte Riikola
Equity Research Analyst, Inderes

All right. Thank you.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Thank you, Atte, for relevant questions. Let's then take a couple of questions from the chat. First of all, are you going to publish new long-term financial targets in the upcoming CMD?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, we are right now working with our strategy and we are developing our messages there, and we will kind of to publish our long-term targets in CMD.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Simple question to Mikko. How much of the EUR 100 million that you received in conjunction with the listing deal have you used so far?

Mikko Vesterinen
CFO, Canatu

At the end of last financial year, we had cash and short-term investments. In practice, the cash for us amounted in total to EUR 92 million, so the cash position was strong still.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

What is your expectation of when would the first recurring revenue start coming in from the first CNT100 SEMI reactor?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

In this year.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Thank you. ASML introduced roadmap where Low- NA EUV source power will increase over 600 W. Will Canatu deliver pellicles to this application? This is related to Low- NA EUV, not High- NA application.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

First of all, for us, and for the industry, it doesn't matter whether it's Low- NA or High- NA. So for both of those, it's relevant that industry has the need to move from the conventional technology to the CNT technology now with, you know, transitioning happening in this 500-600 W level. If you go further, then that's even our position is even better, if you go to 800 W or 1,000 W. So we do believe that our position there is even stronger compared to competition.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Related to this, there's a follow-on question regarding, are Canatu CNT pellicles okay for 1,000 or 1,500 W EUV?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

It has not been tested, but basically the fundamental thing there is that CNT material is extremely heat tolerant. In vacuum environment, it can tolerate up to 1,500 Celsius. This environment there is vacuum environment, so currently I think that we are talking about maybe 600 Celsius levels in the kind of the focal point there. There is still a lot headroom to go further.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Question regarding investment. How do you justify delays in reactor orders and at the same time investments in increasing production capacity at the same time?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Yeah, I think that, we are now building this extra capacity to be, to be ready mid this year. I hope that it is coming exactly at the right time for being capable of making multiple reactors.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Going back to this, Low- NA 600 W EUV system, how well received are CNT pellicles for this upcoming, Low- NA 600 W EUV systems? Are foundries eager or reluctant to adopt CNT pellicles for these production lines?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

I think that we do see very high interest for that one. We do see. I had a very interesting discussion with one of the ASML executives just one week ago. I think that the whole industry, including ASML, including those foundries, are really welcoming this development because that enables them to use these higher power ASML systems, and that enables them to do even smaller nodes that are more powerful, more energy efficient and so on. I think that I do see one ASML executive really came to me to say, "Roni, hey, thank you. Thank you for your progress there.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Great. Are you seeing any of your customers delaying negotiations due to Mitsui's plans of ramping up CNT pellicle production during the first half of 2026?

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

No, I don't, I don't think so.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

One, one question regarding the automotive. In automotive, did your revenue grow solely due to DENSO's development contract or did production sales volumes also grow?

Mikko Vesterinen
CFO, Canatu

DENSO was the key driver there. Of course, like there were also other things behind the total number. I think it's fair to say that the partners with DENSO expanded during the past year.

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Thank you. Do we have any final questions from the audience or are we? We are good.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Mari, do you want to cover this Capital Markets Day?

Mari Makkonen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Canatu

Yes. Thank you. We will be hosting the Capital Markets Day, on 26th of March at 10:00 , here at Sanomatalo, Helsinki, and the registration is now open. Please register on our investor site.

Juha Kokkonen
CEO, Canatu

Thank you very much for your interest.

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