Hello all, welcome to Follow Konecranes' Q2 2026 results webcast. My name is Linda Häkkilä. I'm the VP Investor Relations here at Konecranes, and today with me as our main speakers, we have our CEO, Marko Tulokas, and our CFO, Teo Ottola. Before we continue, I would like to remind you about the disclaimer, as we might be making forward-looking statements. As per usual, we will first start with a presentation from our CEO. After that, our CFO, then we are happy to answer your questions in the Q&A session. Now, without any further comments, I would like to hand over to our CEO.
Thank you very much, Linda, good afternoon from my behalf also. I'd like to start with some key topics of the quarter and start with commenting the customer activity. I'm happy to say that we had a continued very strong and good customer activity throughout the quarter. That despite the continued geopolitical uncertainty, which has resulted some apprehension with customers and the timing of the orders, as well as some volatility in supply chain. Regardless of that uncertainty and apprehension, we had good demand, particularly in the ports business segment, as well as in defense, power, and aviation in the industrial side, to name a few. Because of that, our quarter two orders actually were very strong, and that resulted also in the highest order book that we have had in three years. This, of course, is a very good quarter two for us.
The uncertainty in the environment reflected maybe more on the sales and the delivery side, our volumes remaining on the previous year level or actually slightly below, and that is mainly due to the expected timing of the ports order book. Our ability to execute and apply cost control resulted in a solid result, particularly in such a volume environment. Also, I'd like to say that I'm really happy, and particularly happy, that we had good M&A activity in the quarter. Right after the end of the quarter, we were able to announce the recent planned acquisition of 70% majority interest in MFK, which is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's wire rope hoist and gear motor business in Japan. Of course, that is a very important milestone for Konecranes and in our expansion plans for our geographical presence.
Japan is the third-largest crane service, and wire rope hoist in the world. Of course, for our mid to long-term plans, this is of course a very significant win. Very happy about that. Now let's move on to the quarter financials and more specific comments. We had good orders from all three business areas. Two great orders for Port Solutions, two larger ones. I'll talk about that a little bit later. Navy order for Industrial Equipment and the defense segment, as well as solid growth for Industrial Service, both in the agreement base as well as in the orders. That resulted in an order intake growth of 13% year-on-year with comparable currencies. Consequently, to order book that is 15% higher than the previous year at EUR 3.4 billion. The best order book that we have had in three years.
That, of course, gives us good prospects for the second half. Sales is still behind previous year. That is predominantly a ports deliveries timing issue. There was also some Industrial Service and Port Solutions-related customer apprehension that reflected from the agreement-based invoicing and resulting spin. Also we've seen some developments towards the end of the quarter that are improving that development. Too early to say, though. Solid margins, particularly if one considers the volume environment, 1.6% behind previous year. That was predominantly impacted by the volume environment. Moving on to our demand environment, if you look at the two key indicators here, the capacity utilization and the Purchasing Managers' Index or the confidence indicators. Looking at first, the two largest regions, the EMEA and U.S. or EU and U.S.
The capacity utilization has been flat roughly the last 12 months with some slight increase in the previous couple of months. Funnels, our own funnels are solid. Customers are hesitant to some extent, as I was saying earlier, we do see solid activity in several customer segments in the industrial side. This capacity utilization-related apprehension is more maybe visible in the service work and how much service workers, customers actually place or order against the order book that we have and hence that reflects somewhat to the delivery side in service. Looking at the manufacturing confidence and the PMI expansion, that shows actually for the second quarter in a row in all four key market areas that we operate expansion. That has not all translated into demand for us yet, generally speaking, that describes a more positive while still cautious environment.
China, although there is a clear slowing down or decrease in the Purchasing Managers' Index, still shows expansion. That, for us, shows as an active market, although at the same time very intense domestic competition. I would next look at the Port Solutions segment, here the good activity level continues. When we look at the Container Throughput Index, that continues to be on a very high level historically, we saw another 3% increase year-on-year in the container throughput. Of course, the long-term drivers remain the same. The automation trend that we've seen, the geopolitical trends that drives also new placement of logistic flows and therefore also the ports and terminals, the electrification and sustainability trend, as well as then the demographics which drive both automation and the outsourcing trends.
More on a current note, particularly if you look at the current geopolitical environment and particularly this situation or crisis in Middle East, the impact of that is somewhat, in a smaller way in sales side and in the sales delays. When we look at the demand environment, in fact, that is in the short and mid-term also having some potential positive opportunities. We see some realignment of investments because of the change in the logistic flows and most recently, of course, they announced the plans in U.A.E. that there would be a new terminal on the east coast of United Arab Emirates because of the situation. That's a good example of what these sorts of things actually may result in, particularly in this industry. Also the other thing is that our customers in this industry are the shipping lines and terminal operators.
They are doing financially very well and very much continue their consolidation and investment into the terminals in this business. That, of course, is a positive driver for us. Looking still a bit more in detail to the volume development. As I said, orders were solid from all three BAs, and particularly in Port Solutions, we saw good order intake increase. We had two large orders, one from YILPORT, which was announced, and the other one was an unannounced larger order. Besides that, we also had a decent order intake in Port Solutions in the other segments, too. In the Industrial Equipment side, one large defense segment Navy order in the U.S. I can also say that we have continued to see solid component distribution business development also in the second quarter.
In the Industrial Service side, 5% growth in orders and 4% in agreement base, which of course is a positive thing. We see an increase in Americas and Asia-Pacific, but some decrease still in EMEA that maybe reflects the demand environment, too. On the sales side, Industrial Equipment saw actually growth, and the slowness has been in Industrial Service side, particularly in EMEA and in Asia-Pacific. Of course, as I said already a couple of times, the Port Solutions, it's the timing of deliveries issues and most of that, of course, is planned and well-known in advance. These volumes, of course, they resulted in the clearly high order book compared to the previous quarter and what we had last year. We have a 15% higher order book than previous year at the same time. That's best in three years. All business areas increased.
Of course, we have a confidence-building order book for second half deliveries is we have EUR 200 million higher order book for the second half of this year compared to the previous year at the same time. On this section, finally, I'd shortly again touch upon our progression towards the financial targets. We saw a slight decline in the 12-month rolling comparable EBITA development in Industrial Service, Port Solutions, and the group volume, whereas Industrial Equipment continued to gradually improve. What I can, of course, say is that we are well within the target range that we have set up for ourselves until 2029, as also communicated earlier. At this stage, I'd like to turn over to Teo, and then I'll come back a bit later also for two more things, or three more things, actually.
Thank you, Marko.
Thank you.
Let's move more into the numbers. Let's start with the group profitability slide. As we already saw, we had a decline in the group comparable EBITA of 1.6 percentage points to 12.7% now in the second quarter of 2026. When we take a look at it by BA, we had actually an improvement in Industrial Equipment. We had a decline in Port Solutions and Service. When we take a look at the business areas where we had a decline, the main reason for the decline was the underlying volume development, which was downwards. If we unpack the EBITA little bit more with the help of the EBITA bridge on the right-hand side. First of all, we note that the decline in euros was EUR 20 million.
If we go more into the details and take a look at the pricing impact, we had maybe 2%-3% higher prices now than a year ago. When we combine that with the fact that the sales declined in comparable currencies by 2.8%, we are actually looking at an underlying volume decline of 5% or even slightly more, which obviously flows into the EBIT development as well as a negative item. When we take a look at the inflation, actually the inflation was roughly in line with the price increases that we had, somewhere between 2% and 3% on a weighted average basis. We did not now in this quarter have a really net of inflation gain or loss. We were basically able to cover the inflation with the price increases, but not really more than that.
This is as such okay, but it is of course a little bit different than what we have been having in the previous quarters because we have had quite many quarters where we have had a net of inflation pricing gain. This time that was not the case. When we then take a look at the other elements, mix impact was not really meaningfully big, it was a fairly small one. We had a small negative from the execution, from the performance in a year-on-year comparison. When we take a look at the fixed costs, the delta in the bridge, - EUR 7 million, this is basically inflation. That much we were able to, of course, then compensate with the pricing. As said, we were able to cover for the inflation, but nothing extra on top of that one.
The overall end conclusion is that basically what comes through to the EBIT is the volume impact. The other topics are more or less netting each other out. It's the underlying volume development which is behind the profitability development. When we move into the businesses and start with the service, the order intake was roughly EUR 400 million. That is an increase of a little bit more than 5% in comparable currencies. We had increase both in field service as well as in parts. When we take a look at the regions, we had an increase in the Americas and APAC, but a decrease in EMEA. Again, taking a look at the regions, one can say that Americas region order intake was very strong now in the second quarter.
The agreement base continued to grow, again higher than 4% growth year-on-year in comparable currencies. Very good news there. The order book is higher than a year ago. It's also higher than at the end of the first quarter. Both sequential and year-on-year growth from the order book point of view. Sales, -1.7% in comparison to the situation a year ago. Now, despite the fairly good order intake, we have some slowness in the sales. Like Marko already pointed out, it comes partially from the maybe a bit lower than expected invoicing regarding the agreement base. Our order book is now a little bit higher than what it has been. Part of it is in the order book in a way, and part is in the slower than, let's say, normal invoicing from the agreement base.
We, however, feel that this is primarily a timing topic, and the sales performance will recover going forward to the second half. When taking a look at the comparable EBITA margin, 21.2%, this is a decline of 1.4 percentage point year-on-year. Here, the reason is the same as for the whole group. It is basically the underlying volume which is causing the decline in the service EBITA margin. Industrial Equipment, very good order intake in the second quarter, more than 18% growth in a year-on-year comparison. We had good growth in components. We also had good growth in process cranes, but a slight decline in standard cranes in a year-on-year comparison. Again, taking a look at the regions. Americas was strong here also, like in service as well. Also APAC grew, but EMEA was more or less stable in a year-on-year comparison.
Of course, the sequential comparison is interesting and important as well. There, we had a decline in standard cranes as well as in components, but process cranes were more or less flat in a sequential comparison. It's worth noting that component order intake, despite declining a little bit in a sequential comparison, still continued to be on a very good level. Here too, the order book increased both in a year-on-year comparison as well as in the sequential comparison. Net sales grew by 8.6% in year-on-year comparison. We actually here had a growth in all business units. Some delays from the customer deliveries point of view, but nothing major, and sales growth is there. When we take a look at the comparable EBITA margin, 6.9%, 0.6 percentage point improvement. This is of course then a different story than in the service.
For example, volume increased and supported the EBITA. Also pricing gave a small positive here within Industrial Equipment. On the negative side, on the other hand, we have the effects. So euro-dollar in particular, which is impacting us, which is in a worse position from our point of view than a year ago. And also from the execution point of view, it was not a completely clean quarter. So there was a little bit of that also included in the numbers. Port Solutions also here, actually excellent order intake. The growth 17% year-on-year. Like Marko already pointed out, we had two large orders that were received in the second quarter. Activity overall was good in RTGs, lift trucks, also port service in a year-on-year comparison.
When we take a look at the sales, we have a clear decline, almost 13% in a year-on-year comparison. Again, repeating what Marko already mentioned, this is primarily an order book timing topic, so the deliveries are scheduled for a later time. This was the main reason. Well, couple of deliveries probably could have been going within the Q2 and slipped to Q3. Additionally, unfortunately, we were not able to deliver the pending Middle East case that was still pending already at the end of Q1. So that was a little bit less than EUR 50 million impact. But like I said, this we had already at the end of Q1, but we haven't really seen any major new delays as a result of the conflict in the Middle East. When we take a look at the comparable EBITA, 10.8%, 1.9 percentage point down in a year-on-year comparison.
Of course, the decline is primarily as a result of the lower volume. The profit was supported a little bit by a U.S. tariff refund. We have applied for refunds. We have received also refund. It was a little bit less than EUR 2 million for Port Solutions in this quarter, and this was a tariff that we actually originally paid last year. And now that we have got a refund, so it is of course helping our Q2 result this year. A couple of comments on the balance sheet and free cash flow. And here on the net working capital side, we have actually now, for the first time in two years, we have a situation that we are on the wrong side of our target of being below 10% of rolling 12-month sales.
This is because of the inventories, so it is the work in progress primarily, which is causing this. Of course, the sales are a little bit on the low side. That is the reason behind that. Advances from customers are on a somewhat higher level, but it is obviously not enough to compensate for the build-up in the work in progress or the contract assets that we now have there. This is of course, also a timing topic, but we are, like I said, on the wrong side of our own target in this quarter. This then, of course, impacts our free cash flow as well. The second quarter free cash flow was not good, on the negative.
When we take a look at it on a rolling 12-month basis, we are now very close to a situation that we have cash conversion at about 100% at the end of the Q2 on a rolling 12-month basis. The cash flow is then, of course, reflected on this slide. On the right-hand side, we can see the net debt. Net working capital development has impacted this one. A bigger impact, however, comes of course from the dividend payment that was taken care of in the second quarter, and now we are in a small net debt situation at the end of the second quarter. When taking a look at the rolling 12-month ROCE, we are there 22.5% on a comparable return on capital employed basis. With these comments, I will then hand over back to Marko.
Thank you, Teo. Talking about our demand outlook, we iterate our earlier demand outlook, and in our industrial customer segment, we do expect that our demand environment remains to be healthy, as I was explaining earlier. For port customers, container throughput is on a high level, and as already earlier described, the long-term prospects are remaining very good. However, the uncertainty has not gone anywhere, and that is, of course, related to the geopolitics and the tariff policy that has also not changed and is almost equally as volatile as it was percent before. That, of course, keeps the uncertainty in the demand outlook. From a financial guidance point of view, we iterate the guidance of net sales expected to remain approximately on the same level or to increase from previous year.
That our comparable EBITA margin is expected to remain approximately on the same level. That means that we remain confident, thanks to a good order book and stable profitability development. At the same time, realistic about the uncertainties in the environment. With that, I have one more message, and that is that we have at Konecranes worked to further sharpen our strategic priorities and ambitions. I'd like to tell you more, or we'd like to tell you more in connection with our quarter three result on October 23. You are very welcome to join us either virtually or in Helsinki, and we will then share more of these strategic priorities and ambitions, and welcome a discussion with all of you. With that, I am happy to close this section and move on to the Q&A with Linda.
Thank you for the presentations, Marko and Teo. Now we will start the Q&A session for today. Operator, we are ready to start taking questions through the conference call lines.
If you wish to ask a question, please dial pound key five on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question, please dial pound key six on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Daniela Costa from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Hi. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking my questions. I have two, and I will ask them one at a time. First, just wanted to understand on the service margin a little bit better, because is there any impact also from mix? How should we think about the fact that parts went up and field services went down? I would have thought that is mix accretive. From the other hand, we also had Asia doing better than the rest of the world. Maybe extending that to, you mentioned the order book a bit when you were going through the explanations. I didn't quite get it, what's been the trend of margins in the order and agreement book?
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If we start with the service question and the mix impact there. Yes, it is correct that the spare parts have been doing, and we're doing now, from the order intake point of view and sales point of view also, a little bit better than the field service. The difference also this time, as in so many other times within the service is not so big that it would be significantly impacting the margin structure, so that the mix typically doesn't have a huge impact within the service. This was undoubtedly a small positive, nothing so much that it would be clearly visible in the margin. When we take a look at the cross margin in service and compare it to the situation a year ago, these two are very close to each other.
Of course, now we need to remember that we have been having a little bit, let's say, additional cost burden as a result of the Middle East conflict because some of the cost items like fuel has been on a higher level than what it was earlier. We have been able to mitigate that cost increase quite well with our own actions, and hence the cross margins there are basically more or less unchanged. It is the volume drop that actually causes the decline in the profitability within service.
The other question was about the order book margins. I guess that is for service as well as elsewhere, the order book margins are roughly on the same level where they have been in the year-to-date numbers, right?
That is correct. Of course, within service, the order book is maybe then more focused or it's more on the modernization side, so it's not maybe less the spare parts.
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The field service part. By and large, of course, that is correct.
By and large.
Now, by the way, when we take a look at the order intake now in the second quarter for service, like I said, it was quite good, more than 5% growth. This was not because of the modernizations. We didn't have more modernizations now than a year ago. Actually, the other way around. Modernizations order intake was somewhat lower than in the second quarter of last year.
Got it. Just on the free cash flow. You had all these very large orders towards the back end of the quarter. Are we missing the advances from these recent large orders, and is that why the free cash flow was negative? Can you delve a little bit into what caused it?
Timing of the order intake is basically what caused it. These came very much towards the end of the quarter, and then the advanced payment, in a way, schedule was not in place to the extent that maybe it would've been if this had been done two months earlier or one and a half months earlier. This is the basic example in that one. There hasn't been any major significant shift within the contract terms from higher advances to lower advances or anything like that. The advanced payments have been, and they continue to be part of the way of doing business in these kind of deals where a cancellation would be a problem for us because of the tailor-made cranes.
Got it very clear. Thank you.
The next question comes from Panu Laitinmäki from Danske Bank. Please go ahead.
Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. I have two questions. Firstly, on the guidance. You keep it unchanged. You are behind last year after the first half, so could you talk about drivers in the second half that enabled you to reach the guidance, especially given that the margin comps are pretty high? The second is on services. I didn't fully understand the comment that you had good orders but then lower sales. Could you explain the thing with the lower delivery from the agreement base, and is this improving going into Q3 already?
Maybe I can start on that. On the confidence for the second half particularly, and that's of course predominantly related to the stronger order book. Our order book is roughly EUR 200 million stronger. Unless we see a deteriorating delivery environment compared to the situation that there is today, then of course that gives us confidence that we should be able to deliver the second half. Of course, as was also stated or explained by Teo as it relates to service, of course, that is something that drives the profitability also very well. That, of course, is predominantly the reason why we are confident on the second half guidance under these current assumptions and conditions. The other question was about the service margin, right?
Or service sales probably.
Service sales. That service sales topic you were referring to, how come the service sales is behind, or the book-to-bill to the orders is what it is. Of course, to some extent, there are elements there that may be not easy even for someone like us to explain. The key reason is that, of course, customers, when they have such an environment where they either may be very loaded with projects, which is the case with some of customers, or in some cases have additional capacity or uncertainty themselves, they may hold back on the agreement-based orders or sales that they have already ordered in. When they order less, then of course that is something that also results in a spin later or the sales that we would get from that inspection visit.
That, of course, why there is a lag or a snowball that we maybe push ahead of us, or will push ahead of us in service. Of course, the orders are there and the agreement base is there, so eventually the customer will need to do that maintenance and that service and replace that part. That, of course, why we are also confident from the service side that now that once we're back on growth track with the orders, that will turn into sales.
One way of taking a look at the same in light of the numbers is that when we take a look at the agreement-based growth, which has been 4% or more, and then we take a look at the invoicing from the agreement base. It is growing less. In a way, there is a delay in delivering the agreement base, and that delay is something like now was stated, so that we feel that it is temporary, and it will be fulfilled over time. Now there has been a mismatch within the growth of the agreement base and the agreement base related invoicing. There is, of course, the other explanation as well. If you take a look at the order book for service, which typically is fairly modest, but now it has been growing.
For example, if we take a look at the order book for service at the end of Q1 and compare it to the end of Q2, we have a higher order book.
Some of the orders that have been done now, for example, retrofits that for which the quarter was quite good. They have not been delivered, but of course, the order book will be delivered at a given time going forward. Now the Q2 sales was maybe a little bit lower than what we would have wanted it to be.
Okay, thanks. Can I just ask as a follow-up, how should we interpret this that you have been talking about with softer service market for a while, but now the order intake trends were clearly better? Should we understand that it's been an inflection point and it's getting better, or is it still soft given the sales dynamics that you explained?
It is a bit, let's say, a market that is, like I said, we're describing softer. There are elements there that give confidence, but I would say that it's probably just to be on the conservative side to say that it is a bit too early to say, but the outlook is more positive than it was a few months ago. There are elements there that could turn this much more positive going forward.
If we take a look
Okay. Thank you
The data that we get from the cranes at the customers. What we have been seeing is that the utilization rates seem to be going in the right direction, so up in the beginning of the year, so Q1 or so.
Yes.
When we take a look at it now, so it's still on a higher level than year to date. The last couple of months have not been superb.
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in a sequential comparison. There's maybe a little bit conflicting
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messages. As cliche as it is, one needs to say that the uncertainty is there. Again, when we take a look at the behavior that we had from the order intake point of view, for example, in the Americas now in the second quarter, both service and equipment were strong
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from the order intake point of view. There are also good signs in that sense.
All right. Thank you.
The next question comes from Mikael Doepel from Nordea. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. Just a follow-up on this last one. You mentioned that in terms of the service business, there are also elements that are looking more positive than two months ago. Could you just clarify what elements are you actually referring to?
I believe that is, as Teo was just stating, that we see the activity in the so-called TRUCONNECT or the connected crane that is on a year-on-year basis is higher, slightly lower in the last month comparison. In a year comparison between quarters, it is positive. That's one small signal. Of course, when we look at our sales funnels, they are on a rather healthy level. The uncertainty comes from things like that, okay, when does the order actually placed and when it gets delivered? That to some extent is the same on the service side.
There are not very clear signs.
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that one could immediately be able to interpret that we are going in one particular direction. It is the funnel values, they are stable on a fairly good level when we take a look at the number of new cases that have come to the funnel. It is very stable in comparison to, let's say, what it was some months ago. If there is a difference within service, it is maybe slightly to the positive.
What can one conclude out of all of this? That in the big picture, the overall environment seems pretty stable.
Yes.
There are these regional differences, like now Americas looked much more positive than EMEA, for example, from the service point of view. I guess the same applies to the equipment as well.
Okay. It is fair to say that in terms of sales funnels, I guess what you are talking about now is not only service, but broadly speaking, sales funnels that you see those are solid across business segments and regions.
Summary level, yes. That is so, and with differences. It is just on the service side still, maybe if you look at the modernization, there is quite a bit of modernization activity. One of those things that in the last quarters we have been in the funnels, I mean, because you can only go so long without doing a modernization or replacement. That is also one sign when you are saying that what are the reasons why they believe that that would be a good trend. Again, that is only one sign.
No, that makes sense. Good. Just a final question on the, I guess, Teo, you mentioned the pricing net of cost inflation in the quarter was fairly neutral, and it has been slightly positive, I guess, in the couple of past quarters. How should we think about this equation going forward? What are you seeing out there? I could assume that maybe there is some increased cost pressures out there on logistics and other things. At the same time, I would also assume that you're adjusting your pricing. How should we think about this going forward? Also not related to this, but in terms of the tariff refunds, what do you expect on that front into the second half?
Yeah. If we start with the pricing. I guess that it's the same commentary as we have been having earlier as well. We feel that we will be able to price inflation in. There can be, of course, certain delays if there are abrupt chokes to the system, either from the freight point of view or from the fuel point of view. As we can see now within the second quarter, we have been able to handle those, for example, now fairly well. We are cautioning that one should not think that we would be automatically be able to make net of inflation pricing gain going forward. Our commentary is that we will be able to push inflation into the customer prices, but not necessarily much more.
If that is the case, that we can increase value added to the customer and can increase pricing more. That's very good. Let's not count on that on a short and midterm basis. Regarding the tariff situation, of course, this goes in phases in the U.S., like you most likely know. Of course, we will be applying for more refunds if the system allows that. We will be following how it is done, and then we will be applying more as we go. There are, of course, uncertainties related to this one as well. Time will tell then how it will go in practice.
Right. Okay. That's very clear. Thank you very much.
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Yeah. Hi, guys. Just a couple of follow-ups left from me. First is on the commentary of having EUR 200 million more from the backlog for the second half. Is this comment predominantly for the port segment, or is it divided also for the industrial side?
It is divided by everybody, but of course, mostly ports where that is coming from. All the business areas have a stronger order book. If you look at service and also Industrial Equipment, their throughput times are generally speaking shorter than ports. For all of them.
Maybe coming back to the previous question on the pricing in the backlog. Teo, you mentioned that perhaps we shouldn't expect you to be able to price in net of inflation gains. If you look at that older backlog that is now set to roll out on the second half, are you fully covered for these kind of inflationary pressures that have this year hit, you mentioned fuel and perhaps some raw materials as well? Is there a concern that there might be a temporary kind of a net of inflation headwind coming on the second half? I understand that you price in new orders with good pricing, but the existing backlog?
One could maybe formulate it so that in the big picture, we think that we are quite okay. Of course, if there are now from this onwards, let's say during the second half of the year, again, a new shock on something as a result of whatever takes place in the world. Of course, it can be that there are temporary issues for us. The reason for that one is the same as I think we discussed in connection to the Q1 as well. In those agreements and cases that we have in the order book, so it is difficult to get the price escalation there because it's already been agreed. If there are cost items that are unhedged, like fuel and freight, at least to some extent, so then that may be more difficult to cover on a short-term basis.
Like I said, based on the current situation, we don't see a massive risk from that point of view. If something unexpected happens, so then of course it may have an impact.
Okay. Then the very last from me is on the Industrial Equipment profitability on second half of last year, which is, as it was referred earlier, quite a challenging comp in margins are a bit of an outliers. If I remember correctly, you then flagged some temporary pricing gains from the tariff landscape. Could you maybe walk us through a little bit what's a reasonable expectation now in the second half versus what you did a year ago on the Industrial Equipment side?
Of course. I'll start again. Of course, there was some tariff tailwind. I think it was EUR 2 million a quarter level in Industrial Equipment. Of course, that is no longer a tailwind, but it's neither a headwind on this year. Of course, my understanding also, the currency is working against us a bit still in Industrial Equipment. Other than that, whether we had anything more specific than just good volumes last year and good execution, that I have to ask Teo from.
We had some, like the R&D grant we had.
That's right. That was right.
I guess that it is fair to say that when we take a look at the tariff situation, the tailwind that we had from that one, that's not going to be there most likely. Unless there are, again, changes that we do not know of today, but that is maybe not there. On the other hand, when one takes a look at the FX, which has been for an Industrial Equipment, a little bit of a burden now in the second quarter in particular, but also Q1. This one, based on the euro-dollar rates now, should not be going in the worst direction. It should be going slightly to the better direction now in the third quarter. Of course, the fourth quarter is still open, not fully hedged.
Okay. There's obviously the volume impact, which should be perhaps positive also for the Industrial Equipment from the backlog, which helps you to offset some of these last year's tailwinds.
Yes.
There are no more questions at this time. I hand the conference back to the speakers.
It seems that there are no more questions, so this concludes our Q&A session for today. I want to thank you everyone for following our event today. Before we close the call, I would like to remind you that we'll be publishing our Q3 results and arrange a Capital Markets Day update on October 23rd. Thank you once again, and have a lovely day.
Thank you very much.