Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Valmet's Q1 2023 result publication webcast. My name is Pekka Rouhiainen. I'm the Head of Investor Relations here at Valmet. Valmet's Q1 order intake was strong, also profitability was at a good level. The result will be presented today by President and CEO Pasi Laine, as well as CFO Katri Hokkanen. After the presentations, you will have the chance to ask questions over the phone lines. Pasi, please go ahead.
Thank you, Pekka. Good afternoon. Like Pekka said, orders received increased to EUR 1.5 billion and comparable EBITDA at EUR 133 million in the first quarter, strong quarter. First, I'll go through quarter one, then some numbers of and development of segments and business lines. Katri will go through the financial development, and I'll come to summarize the guidance and short-term market outlook. First, the first quarter in brief. Like I said, orders received was EUR 1.55 billion. Net sales increased to EUR 1.32 billion. Our backlog is big, almost EUR 4.6 billion. Comparable EBITDA increased to EUR 133 million, and margin was 10.1%. Gearing in the end of the period was 15%.
If we hear the numbers again, if we look the net sales by segment, this time, about 48% of the revenue came from Process Technologies, Services contributed to 29%, and Automation to 23%. Net sales by area, it's quite traditional, Europe almost 40%, North America a little bit over 23%, and the rest of the areas about the same size from 12%-14%. In the end of the period, we employed almost 17,800 people. Here is the trend of our orders received, and it looks of course nice. First time, in 12 months curve, we are close to EUR 5.5 billion, and there has been steady growth from the beginning of Valmet with some drop-downs.
All in all, the trend has been quite linear actually from this EUR 3 billion level to EUR 5.5 billion level. Geographically, Europe was traditional 4%. North America, beginning of the year a little bit stronger than an average, 28%. South America, China, and Asia Pacific, there is normal variation in a quarter between the regions, but nothing extraordinary here in the area view either. Good order intake trend and nice trend continues. Like we have been saying from the beginning, that we want to grow services. Now, order intake was about EUR 1 billion, and now our LTM is almost EUR 1.9 billion. That's of course something we are proud of. At the same time, we have been developing our Automation segment.
First nothing, then we bought Automation Systems, and now we merged with Neles, and now we have first time full year and the order intake in automation segment for one year. Last 12 months, it's a little bit over EUR 1.3 billion. This results in the fact that our stable business order intake during last 12 months has been about EUR 3.2 billion. We are of course very happy with this development, which has been a strategic target for Valmet for many years. Backlog, like I said, almost EUR 4.6 billion. 60% is related to process technologies, 25 to services, and 15 to automation. We are saying the order backlog is EUR 192 million higher than end of last year.
We are saying that about 65% of the backlog is expected to realize as net sales during 2023. Last year's the same percentage was 60%. We see also the impact of Flow Control in this number. Strong backlog in all the businesses. Some words about the segments and business lines. First, services. Like I said, the LTM is now almost EUR 1.9 billion and the Q1 was strong. Order intake was EUR 577 million. There are many reasons for that. Of course, we have a good business activity. Inflation has been contributing to that and price increases. We had also one large single order which was close to EUR 30 million. That contributed as well.
Even, even without that large single order, the activity in services has been good. Net sales grew as well, ended up to almost EUR 390 million. Katri will go through the quarterly numbers more. I can tell here that the LTM now is 16% in our EBITDA percentage. Euro-wise, the LTM is now EUR 269 million. Good bounce back in service profitability in first quarter, and Katri will tell more about that later on. Automation segment, first time the full year in LTM numbers. It's one year since we merged with Neles. Now the order intake for last 12 months is a little bit over EUR 1.3 billion.
In first quarter, order intake was EUR 391 million, which was of course good level. Sales wise, LTM about a little bit more than EUR 1.2 billion. Net sales wise quarter one, so EUR 304 million. Profitability now for last 12 months is 18.2%. We are happy with the order intake, we are happy with the net sales, and we are also happy with the profitability of the automation segment. Flow Control has been now for one year with us. The LTM is now EUR 793 million, so almost EUR 800 million.
Here you see on the graph that it has been going back to the growth mode it had until 2019, then there was the COVID drop, and now we are back to the same same line of growth which there was earlier. Good development in order intake in Flow Controls. Q1 was strong, all in all EUR 217 million orders in Q1. Net sales has been growing as well, net sales was EUR 188 million. We are happy with the Flow Controls performance and integration is going like we have been saying, well, and we are also in process to achieve the synergy targets what we have, what we have publicly said. Good development in Flow Controls.
In Automation Systems, LTM is now EUR 533 million. First quarter was strong as well, EUR 175 million, so almost EUR 30 million higher than last year. Net sales has been improving as well, so last year EUR 88 million, this year EUR 116 million, and LTM is EUR 517 million. We are also happy with the development in our Automation Systems business. Process Technologies, which is the combination of pulp and energy and paper, order intake was EUR 584 million, so less than a year ago. From the peak year when we had EUR 2.8 billion, we are back in LTM at earlier years' level, so to about EUR 2.2 billion.
This is quite normal order intake level what we have had over the last six years or five years except one year. Normal activity. Net sales wise, we are now at EUR 2.5 billion level and ended up in Q1 having EUR 628 million as a net sales. Profitability, well LTM is now 5.4%. First quarter was not strong and Katri will go through that number, but LTM is now 5.4%. The margin is impacted like we have earlier been saying by selected pulp and energy projects, there is no change in that statement. It's still pulp and energy and selected projects.
Pulp and Energy order intake EUR 212 million, down compared to last year, but there is always quarterly variation in order intake. LTM is now about EUR 957 million. Lower activity than last two years, but higher than three years ago. One could say that the activity has been little bit down compared to a normal year on LTM basis. Net sales wise, we ended up in net sales EUR 286 million. There's growth of about EUR 10 million compared to last year. Like I earlier said, we have challenges with selected Pulp and Energy projects.
In paper business line, orders received was EUR 372 million, down compared to last year. EUR 372 million is very good level for one quarter in paper machines. LTM is now at little bit over EUR 1.2 billion, so EUR 200 million above the years before, of course down compared to extraordinary year 2021. One could say that we are at a normal order intake level currently compared to the previous years. Net sales wise, we ended up at EUR 342 million. LTM is EUR 1.4 billion. It means that currently we can eat our backlog, which means that our delivery times are getting more reasonable. There's nothing to worry about it.
I think it's more telling that we are getting back to more normal situation. It's also telling that our organization have done extremely good work with the fire and which was in Rautpohja a year ago in May. They have been now been able to ramp up the capacity even if we had all the challenges with the fire at Rautpohja factory. Well done by paper business line. Good. Now I'll let Katri to continue.
Thank you, Pasi, and hello everybody on my behalf as well. I'm really happy to be here today to present the results. I will start my presentation from the traditional key figure slide. Order intake was EUR 1.55 billion, as Pasi said earlier, so it was 17% higher than a year ago. Order backlog is strong, EUR 4.6 billion. That is roughly on the same level than what we had last year. Net sales was EUR 1.3 billion. There is 38% increase compared to last year. Our comparable EBITA was EUR 133 million or 10.1%. There was 1.8 percentage points increase compared to last year. Our adjusted earnings per share for the quarter was EUR 0.55. I will come back to the other numbers a little bit later in my presentation.
When we look at the segment numbers starting from the order intake, services was EUR 577 million. That was 28% higher than a year ago. This was actually the record quarter for services and for services business units. Pasi already mentioned that we had this one single order worth of EUR 30 million booked now in Q1. Automation was EUR 391 million, and there we had EUR 217 million of Flow Control, and the rest was then Automation Systems. It's good to mention that also in Automation Systems, the orders grew 19% compared to last year. Very nice start there as well. Process Technologies was EUR 584 million, that was 20% lower than a year ago. All in all, we were at EUR 1.55 billion, as said, 17% higher.
Moving on to the net sales. Actually, all the segments net sales increased compared to last year. Services was EUR 389, and that was 23% higher than a year ago. Automation was EUR 304, and there we didn't have Flow Control last year, so that's good to understand from the numbers. On the process technologies, the net sales was EUR 628, so that was 13% higher. So we were clearly over EUR 1 billion in terms of net sales and 38% higher than a year ago. A few words also about the comparable EBITDA and starting from services. Service was EUR 63 million and more than double compared to last year, and the profitability was 16.1, and that was 6.5 percentage points higher than the slow Q1 last year.
Automation was EUR 50 million and 16.3%, so there was also 4.2 percentage points improvement compared to last year. Process Technologies was EUR 30 million and down to 4.7%. All in all, we were at 10.1, as said earlier, and this was actually the first time ever that our Q1 was above 10%. One milestone we've reached here again. We have a little bit changed this slide, so this now includes the comparable gross profit and SG&A. We wanted to increase the transparency and hope that you will find this useful. I will start from the comparable gross profit. That was 25% for the Q1, and that was 2 percentage points higher than last year. There stable business was a little bit over half of the net sales.
When we look at the last twelve months, we are close to EUR 1.4 billion and 25%. Moving to the SG&A, when we look at the last twelve months, SG&A is a little bit over EUR 900 million, and that has increased compared to last year, and the increase is mainly coming from Flow Control. In the last twelve months number, we now have one full year of Flow Control. When we look at our comparable EBITDA margin development, our net sales, when we look at last twelve months, was at the level of EUR 5.4 billion. Out of that, EUR 2.5 is related to capital business and EUR 2.9 to stable business. Comparable EBITDA is EUR 587 million or 10.8%.
We have improved compared to year-end, but we have not yet reached our previous record of 10.9%. The work continues, and our target is unchanged. We want to be between 12%–14% in comparable EBITDA margin. Cash flow for the quarter was EUR 208 million, and when we look at the last twelve months, we are at EUR 225 million. Net working capital was minus EUR 413 million. When you look at the chart, we have now eliminated the liability related to dividend out, and the net working capital there is minus EUR 174 million, and that is minus 3% of rolling twelve months order intake. It improved compared to year-end. Net debt at the end of Q1 was EUR 345 million, and gearing was 15%.
Our net debt to EBITDA ratio decreased to 0.49. Capital employed was EUR 3.1 billion, and comparable return on capital employed was 19% at the end of Q1. Sorry, adjusted earnings per share, last 12 months we are at EUR 2.50. That was my part, I will give the floor back to Pasi.
Thank you. Guidance and short-term market outlook. We keep the guidance the same as it has been earlier. We estimate net sales will increase in comparing with 2022, and comparable EBITDA will increase in 2023 as well, when we compare it with year 2022. Short-term market outlook, like we have been saying, it's roughly 50% of the customer activity and 50% of the capacity utilization. In services, we have good order intake. We have had good order intake a long time, and we still have a good market activity. We continue to keep good as a market outlook. In Automation, the same story. Order intake has been good and market activity is still good.
Flow Control's the same, good market order intake and good market activity as well. In pulp. We have units where we have good workload situation. We have one unit where the workload situation is not good, that's why we say good/satisfactory. In energy last year, order intake was record, and market activity continues to be good as well. We continue to have the short-term market outlook as good. Board and paper, the same situation, good workload and good market activity. In this year we still keep the satisfactory even if there have been more activity but still workload is not as good as it could be, and that's why we still keep this year as satisfactory. No change compared to last quarter.
All right. Thanks Pasi and Katri for the presentations. We will now move to the Q&A session. I will ask Pasi and Katri to move here behind the tables. This is a virtual event, we will be only taking questions over the phone line. Operator, I hand now over to you.
If you wish to ask a question, please dial star five on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. If you wish to withdraw your question, please dial star five again on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Antti Kansanen from SEB. Please go ahead.
Hi guys, it's Antti from SEB. Thanks for taking my questions, two of them. Firstly on the process technology side and especially on paper division and especially on the board side, I mean you have enjoyed a very good demand over there in the recent couple of years, and now obviously we are seeing a much more adverse news flow coming in. Could you talk a little bit about the order pipeline and your discussion with clients that you have had during the quarter? Are you seeing any hesitancy on investing? What do you think about demand in terms of expansion of capacity, replacing old machines and so forth?
No. Like I said earlier as well that our customers are planning the investment for coming 10 to 15 to 20 years. We haven't seen any hesitation generally in the decision-making by our customers. There are some customers who are now maybe hesitating their decision-making. I'm not sure whether that's because of the demand or is it so that people have to adjust to the inflated cost level. Couple of the customers are maybe hesitating, but generally I haven't seen slowness in the customer negotiation activity.
Okay. The second question is on services, and I mean, great growth and margins during the quarter. Where did you kind of see the biggest activity during the quarter? Was it kind of customers pulling forward maintenance action, doing kind of a modernization projects to bring costs down? Maybe a second question then on the services margin. I mean, it was very strong considering the seasonality. What should we expect going into further this year? I'm assuming you're gonna see a little bit higher labor inflation hitting that division. How are you prepared in terms of pricing?
We have seen customer activity especially in pulp and energy side where the market for mill improvement has been active. Like, now it's. I'm answering also at the same time to another question. If there's a slowdown then we would see that in our consumable business. At the same time it can be an opportunity for customers to make some refurbishment projects, and then we would see that actually in increased level of the mill improvement type of projects. Currently the market activity in almost all the things have been actually at a good level. On the profitability and labor rates, Katri can answer.
Yeah. Of course we have been discussing about this topic for quite some time, and we knew also that this wage inflation is coming, so we have started to take that into account. Of course you can see also in the profitability that we have been able to increase the prices but that work continues. Of course this year we expect to see probably some 5% inflation in the salaries.
All right. Very clear. Thanks so much.
The next question comes from Mikael Doepel from Nordea. Please go ahead.
Yes, thanks. A couple of questions. Coming back to the service business first of all, just wonder if you could talk a bit, I mean, about the market dynamics compared to the paper companies. I mean, you mentioned that the focus might shift a bit if things go weaker, which might impact the mix of your service business. If I hear you correctly, you haven't seen anything of that yet. I was wondering, I mean, given the fact that some of your biggest customers have actually gone out and said that things are looking pretty weak across the board, it seems as if this hasn't really had an impact on you. Maybe you could just talk a bit about those market dynamics.
Though we have been, of course, reading as well that some of the customers are saying that there's less activity. Of course, we work globally so then one should understand that we of course are following globally the market activity. It's clear that the market activity in China hasn't been as strong as it used to be, or it has been as strong but it hasn't been growing and let's see when the COVID impact from the Chinese market is over. There could be a positive thing. At least for us, the big areas like Europe and North America have been active, and we haven't yet seen any slowdown in the service sales activity.
Like I said, then if there are shut downs coming, then it will impact the consumable business like paper machine clothing, it can be an opportunity for mill improvement type of project. Up to now, we haven't seen it yet in our market activity, the slowdown.
Okay. Well, that's clear. Just to follow up on that, I mean, in the past few years you have done quite a good job in improving your market share in the service business. I'm wondering about Q1 and the outlook you have for the next six months. Do you assume or is it fair to assume that you have continued on that track? I guess one reason why you are doing quite well has to do with the fact that you are also gaining market share. Is that a fair assessment in your view?
One quarter is too short time to assess that one, but of course we continue to grow and our target is to grow twice the market size so, market growth or increase the market share. One quarter is too short time, so we don't have the measurement with that accuracy of our market share.
Okay. Great. Thank you very much.
The next question comes from Sindre Sørbye from Arctic Asset Management. Please go ahead.
Hi, thank you for taking my questions today. Two questions. First on SG&A. I mean, in light of a sharp increase in turnover, the SG&A ratio to sales appears to be somewhat on the high side. Admittedly the increase from the fourth quarter is decent or is less than it usually is in the first quarter. I think Katri alluded to the fact or she said that Flow Control was kind of an explanation there. Is it so that the SG&A share is higher in Flow Control, and should there be scope for SG&A % of sales to come further down in the coming quarters?
You can go first.
Okay, I can start and then Okay. Overall, the SG&A, as we said, was at the level of roughly EUR 900 million, and there the increase compared to last year's it was roughly EUR 830 million. That was that EUR 75 million increase was mainly maybe 70% related to Flow Control. There is also increase in personnel-related cost and some increase in the travel expenses. Do you want to add something?
Yeah. Flow Control is of more SG&A heavy business-
Yes.
... than our tradition, that's why you see that there's actually increase in the SG&A % compared to net sales because Flow Control has an impact on that.
Okay. Is it also so that assuming that your strong order intake within services means that services will push this ratio or have a upward push on this ratio because I can imagine that travel expenses, for instance, are heavier in services than in the other businesses.
We didn't quite catch the question, so there is something on the line, so...
So, if I guess that, in automation and in flow control and the services, the SG&A content is higher than in capital business. If you want to grow flow controls or stable business means automation segment or services segment, you have to increase SG&A and SG&A is less heavy in capital side where actually the SG&A is quite constant and there is quite big variation the order intake. This variation is changing the SG&A % compared to order intake. I don't know if I guessed your question at all correctly.
That's very, very well guessed actually. That was what I asked about. My second question is related to the Pulp and Energy segment. I think you said that pulp orders were actually up while energy orders were down at the same time. You have a good outlook on the Energy side and that factor in the Pulp side. With this kind of a, let's say, just a fluctuation and you expect to come back to the strong energy order intake in the coming quarters?
In capital business the quarter is little bit difficult. Sometimes you have more orders booked in one quarter than the other one. We are saying here that it has decreased compared to last year. That's true. In pulp increased, that's true as well. Energy pipe order intake has been strong and the pipeline is strong as well, but there is always quarterly variation. Then Pulp has been better than last year, and let's see how it continues. We are saying that good to slash satisfactory. That's our current understanding of market activity in Pulp side.
Okay. Thanks. Thank you.
The next question comes from Panu Laitinmäki from Danske Bank. Please go ahead.
Thank you. I have two questions. Firstly, on the margins in the process technologies, they were down from Q4 last year and quite a bit from Q1. So, what do you expect to happen there? How long do these selected problem projects continue and how should we kind of think about this in the coming quarters and years?
This is a difficult one. Katri answers.
Oh, thank you. Okay, the EBITDA % for the process technologies was down to 4.7. Year-end we were at 5.6. Maybe one thing to note is that we had a little bit lower net sales now, some EUR 40 million, and typically it's normal that there is some variation between the quarters in process technologies. I repeat what Pasi said earlier, that we have those same issues that we have had in the past, and our target is to improve as soon as possible.
Can you comment when do these projects end? Is it, like, this year or do they carry on until next year?
We haven't been-
Mm.
... saying that, but we have been telling when the challenges started, one could assume that little bit less challenges in beginning of next year than now.
Secondly, on services on the very good order intake growth, I still struggle to understand how much was price and how much was the, like, big order or project that you sold, that you mentioned. I mean, how much is something that's exceptional? What do you think is the kind of run rate going forward?
I can start and you can continue. The orders received increased 28% in services, we have evaluated that the inflation impact is roughly what we have said also in the past, some 6%. We have this roughly EUR 30 million order, what we mentioned earlier, that then is 7% of the total. Rest this is more or less organic growth, maybe good to mention that Q1 is usually quite strong seasonally.
Yeah.
Okay. That's clear. Thank you. Can I just squeeze in one on services? I mean the margin increased quite a bit, and it was clearly above what it was in Q1 2021, which was probably not impacted by inflation. Where did this increase come from? Is it just, like, higher scale or what have you done better than you did two years ago?
Okay, I will start again. Of course the volume explains it. Net sales was higher than a year ago, we have openly said it many times that we were slow with the price increases last year, we were not happy with the profitability Q1 2022. Of course now 16% is, or 16.1% is good achievement.
Okay. Is this, like, a new normal? If you have, like, seasonally lower margin in Q1, then you should have higher than this going forward, or how should you, should we think about this?
No. We are not commenting.
Mm.
... segment profitability estimates.
All right. Thanks.
The next question comes from Sven Weier from UBS. Please go ahead.
Yep. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my two questions. The first one is on the backlog. You currently disclose 65% due the remainder of the year. Last year it was 60%. Can you just remind us what the incremental backlog from Neles was? I guess the Q1 number last year did not include Neles yet. That's my first one. Thank you.
Q1 didn't include Neles, thereafter we haven't been actually disclosing the Flow Control backlog separately.
Okay. Fair enough.
Maybe-
I think Katri might be able to help you with an even better answer than mine.
No, I don't know if it's even better.
Maybe which was nothing, yeah. Okay.
Maybe it's good to. Okay. Strong backlog, as we said, EUR 4.6 billion and some 40% is related to stable business. That was also in Pasi's presentation. The amount of stable has increased compared to last year.
Okay. Thank you. The other question I had. I mean, we discussed already, you know, the impact of the turmoil, lower pulp prices, profit warnings in the sector. I guess a bit too early to see an impact of that yet. What about the impact of high interest rates? I mean, that's been going on for a while. I guess some clients might have still, you know, pulled forward project decisions maybe still, especially in Europe, maybe to benefit from still relatively low rates. I mean, is that an important part of the discussion or do you feel that in this long-term thinking that you mentioned, whether the interest rates are 1, 2% higher or not also doesn't really move the needle that much?
With the customers I have been talking over the years, actually over the last years, people are more saying that there should be a interest, that all the products should have a price, money as well. The ones with whom we deal, they are used to interest rates and so it's exactly like you said that it's not moving the needle.
I mean, Pasi, I mean on this pulp price weakness that we see, demand weakness, I guess we've all been looking at this long enough to have seen this, these fluctuations in the past, right? Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. What's your experience from the back days? I mean, in the last, let's say, five to 10 years, did you feel that this had an impact or did you feel the clients have always kind of looked through these fluctuations?
They have looked through the fluctuation. All the ones who are building pulp mills, they have been over decades in the business and they know that sometimes the price is better, sometimes less, and they base the investment decision on demand and then on the cost what they will achieve with the invested mill. The ones who have highest cost per ton will have challenges and the ones who have newer, more effective mill, they have lesser challenge in times when the price goes down. We haven't seen any impact of that price having any impact to our customer decisions yet.
Okay, Pasi and Katri, thank you very much.
Thank you.
The next question comes from Johan Eliason from Kepler Cheuvreux. Please go ahead.
Yeah, hello. Thank you for taking my question. It's Johan at Kepler Cheuvreux. I was curious about your comment on the paper order intake. You say now that your delivery times have normalized. What are they today? I guess it's different if it's a board or a fine paper or a tissue machine. Can you give some indication on-
Yeah.
when could I expect to get a new machine delivered if I place the order today?
Tissue machines has always a shorter delivery time and there we have capacity, but now when the backlog was at the highest, our promised delivery time started to be three years for the board machine. Board machine and paper machines are done with the same organization, so there the delivery time is the same. Now it's getting shorter.
That basically implies with the backlog you have, you can achieve this, current turnover for another two years, if I understand you correctly?
I'm not commenting the net sales for current years, but we have been increasing our capacity. Of course last years we had still challenges with COVID in China, there were still lockdowns and one easily forgets that last year was a challenging one. We had COVID and we had logistic challenges and then on top of that we had fire. Now we start to be out of those ones and then our capacity is under normal utilization currently.
Okay, good. On tissue I guess we should start to see some action on new orders there. I mean, there's a partly an effect from, on lower pulp prices and the overall pressure on their margins. If we place tissue orders, we could get those within a year or how long is the lead time there?
Depends a little bit on the scope, but one year is a good guess.
Yeah. Good. And how big-- I mean, tissue has always been a small part for you but, but, you know, what sort of size are we talking about over the cycle, in terms of revenue or order fluctuation for tissue? How big can it be in the, in-
So the-
in a peak year?
If I remember correctly, the peak year in order intake was over EUR 350 million some years back, and let's say a normal year is between EUR 200 million and EUR 250 million.
Okay. Excellent. Those were all questions I had. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Johan.
The next question comes from Antti Kansanen from SEB. Please go ahead.
Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my follow-ups both on services. First is kind of coming back to the seasonality. If you look at Q1 sales, I mean, that tends to be weaker than the other quarters. Was there anything extraordinary in this quarter that would have resulted in higher sales or was it just business as usual?
Just business as usual.
Business as usual, yes.
Okay. That's, that's very clear. Perhaps a more broader question then. You mentioned that if there's a downturn and more downtime that could benefit the demand for Mill improvements. How has it been in your business in the past couple of years? In some industries, we're seeing clients investing more into installed base as the lead times of new equipment have been long, and I guess they have been long in your industry as well. Your clients have been running with very high capacity utilization, so has there actually been a pent up? What's the dynamic been in that business the past couple of years?
Yeah. We have had very good activity on the new equipment side as well. That's the difference against the industries you mentioned. We have had all the time good new equipment market. On the rebuilds, normal market, then improvements we have had them as well. Let's see if the improvement market is getting more active now if there are more shutdown possibilities. That could be my answer today.
Yeah, I mean, your lead times have been very long and I just thought that in maybe some customer cases they have been too long and they have then decided on perhaps spend more money on their existing installed base which then you have seen on services demand. This hasn't made-
No, no.
... at least played a major role.
No. They are so different volumes that if you improve by old machine 5%, it's totally different than the volumes what you get...
Yeah.
from new machine, which is twice the size of the old machine. They are not in a way comparable actions.
It will become relevant on those guys who are higher on the cost curve now.
Yeah.
If we see a kind of a lower product prices, then they will start to invest to bring their production costs down.
Yes. Yes.
Okay. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please dial star five on your telephone keypad. There are no more questions at this time. I hand the conference back to the speakers for any closing comments.
Thank you for the good Q&A session. Thanks, Pasi and Katri for the presentations. This will now then start to conclude the event, so half your financial review will be published on the 26th of July. See you all then at least. Until then, have a nice spring.