Good morning, everyone, and welcome to NOTE's year-end report. How do we summarize this year and quarter? If we start with the quarter, it's a quarter where we came back to the profitability that we are hoping and expecting. Maybe we are in the higher end compared to where we have been and where our long-term objectives have been, but that is not a bad thing as I see it. Profitability is very important for us because that builds a—how should I say—foundation for what we want to do in the future. Profitability and cash generation is what gives us the opportunity to be aggressive in the consolidation that is ongoing in the market.
So this quarter is yet another quarter where we show our ability to adjust and adapt to the current surroundings. Our top line were not that high. We came in just barely in our guidance. We had some delays and push-out from the Defence area. We are also seeing that in the Q1 . And to be clear, those push-outs are not lost sales. Those are delayed sales. And that means that currently we have some issues with, especially test, getting products through test. That sounds very straightforward and easy, but these are really complex products with a lot of different processes involved. So we see some delays there, and we have had some push-outs from our customers in the Q4 and from also now in January.
We do expect the Defence segment to come in really strong for the year. We have previously guided for our expectations of +30% year-over-year until 2030. We do not see any reason why that trend is broken. We see our order backlog in this segment is at the highest ever. So that means that we are fairly comfortable that we will see a very good Defence and Security segment development throughout the year. And also, if we look forward beyond 2026, we also see that the projections from our customers are continuing to be really strong, and our projections for 2027 and onwards in this segment are yet even stronger. So yes, we see some push-outs from the Q4 . We see some delays that are coming in in the first part of Q1.
But for the year and for the quarters to come, we are expecting really strong development in this segment. Moving on, sales: SEK 1 billion for the quarter, SEK 3.8 billion for the year. Profitability, our underlying OP: 11.4%. I think the best we have done before in percentage is 10.6%. But what I'm very pleased with is that we are getting the result all the way down to earnings to profit after tax. SEK 3 or SEK 4 per share is also one of the strongest we have ever presented. It's the best we have ever done underlying, in both absolute terms, but also in percentage. We have had some higher results in some quarters due to one-time effects, but this is the best we have ever done.
Operating cash flow, this is to me a bit. This is the weakest cash flow quarter we have had in, I think, nine quarters. I don't see the trend of having a cash generation exceeding the earnings after tax that has broken. We had some customers that were not paying as they should in the end of December. Those have paid. So we will expect Q1 to be stronger in relation to Q4 then. So this is just what some of the larger companies are doing. We try to prevent that from chasing them hard. This year we didn't succeed as well as we did last Q4, so that's why we see it. We don't see the operating cash flow coming in as we expected.
But we are, as I said before, we still expect that we have another, say, SEK 100 million in positive cash flow compared to our normal cash generation that we have. So cash flow, we do expect that that will remain strong. What I'm very pleased with is, for the year, we managed to extend the Torsby site, continue to invest in equipment and capacity. And on top of that, we did acquisition of Custom Electronics. And all of that, we managed to do with our own cash generation. I think that's a big sign of strength for us. Also, where we stand on the cash position today, we are seeing that we can take an active part of the ongoing consolidation in the industry.
I've said that in 2025, I think it was, it was the year with the most of what do you call it, high-level acquisition that has been made in the industry. We see some acquisition from our peers that have been quite sizable. We see good momentum in this sector. However, I still see that there is plenty or several of targets that are out there and are in dialogue today. So my projection is that we will see a continuous quite steep consolidation period in 2026. And I think that NOTE has, we are still in the position to take an active part in that consolidation with our strong balance sheet. 48% in equity after this acquisition is, in my opinion, fantastic. So I think we do a very good job in that area.
Moving on, if I look at what we have done in the Q4 , the acquisition of Custom Electronics. It's a small company. Sales about GBP 12 million-GBP 13 million. Very strong profitability, strong customer retention. I've been there a few times this last quarter, and I think I've had five different customer meetings there, and every one of them are targeting to extend the business with us. So we're really pleased with what we see from the generation of leads that is coming out of this acquisition. So this, I think that this will turn out to be one of the turning points when we look backwards for the group. So I think that is something that we are very pleased with. We continue to invest in our expansion.
We took the premises in Torsby in late November. We're now moving into the new site, 7,000 sq m of production area. We more than doubled the site in capacity. This site looks really, really strong. And what we also see is that we now are taking the last steps to make this site very Defence production capable. It was before, but we take more steps in this. So this will be one area where we expect good growth in that segment. We also see that other segments in Torsby is doing well. So Torsby, we do have a very positive outlook for not only in the Security and Defence, but also in other areas. We have some of our largest Industrial customers are there.
We have some of our largest Medtech customers are there, and every one of them is performing in line with expectations. We will relocate in Lund. That will happen in the Q2 . I don't know exactly which date. I think we will take the building in the April timeframe, March, April timeframe. We will have a gradual move into that. That building is, we have built it to our wishes, if you put it like that. So this is a building that will be much more efficient than the current one we have. The current one we have is old. We have a lot of small rooms. It's not space efficient. We are subleasing premises in the building next to us in Lund just to cope with the steep demand we have there.
So this will be a very good opportunity for us to streamline that operation and continue with the efficiencies that we do in that site. We're also expanding our Finnish site. We will take that premises, I think, August, September timeframe. So we're in the last preparations of that move as well. In Finland, we're going from just below 2,000 square meters up to something 3,300-3,500, if I recall it right. But also here, the building is significantly more efficient than the current one we have. The current one we have is quite narrow. It's L-shaped. This will be a square box with, built to our needs in that area as well. So we have high expectations that this will be a very good step forward for us.
What we also see is that we continue to build our competences and technologies and processes, to be stronger going forward. So our ability to meet our customers' demands are really, really aligned. We see that the products that we make, especially in the Security and Defence area, are quite complex, and we continue to invest in processes to support that growth. I think most of our peers that are in this area are doing very similar things, but we see that our position and our capacity that we have in this area is sizable. So we see that our customers are taking on big orders, and we are trying to mirror that capacity growth that they are expecting in our factories so we can easily take on the growing needs in this segment.
So that's one thing that we are also working heavily on. Order backlog, 11% up. I've talked about it during the last quarters that we see tendencies of growth in this area. We now see that it's turning into good positive numbers. What we also see is that if those that followed us during the component crisis in 2021, 2022, and 2023, we talked about the extension of the order backlog. Today, the order backlog is normalized, so we don't see that we have orders from Industrial customers two years away. So therefore, we think the order backlog is a good indication of where we're heading for the coming year. The majority of our order backlog is due for delivery in 2026.
There are some Defence orders that are on the other side of 2026, but most of the orders are in 2026. That's also very important to keep in mind. We see that this is back to normal levels. We also see that if you talk about delivery times on components and so on, there is no indications of shortages if we exclude memories. The AI storage is consuming a lot of the memories. So we watch that space quite carefully because that is, to me, the next possible problem area when it comes to limitation of availability of components. Looking ahead, our balance sheet, I talked about it, almost 50% in equity, SEK 403 million in net debt that went up. We were actually debt free, if I recall it, when we reported in Q3.
So we took on some debt in the last acquisition. I think that we still have a very low net debt compared to peers and compared to industry. So we would not be hesitant to take on more debt if that is needed. We also think that our balance sheet is strong. We think our liquidity position is basically where we were some five quarters ago. So we don't see this as a limitation either. So good preparation for the year to come, good expectation of a continued cash flow. So we are quite active to, or we're quite aggressive in the market that we'll be buying in 2026. And I've talked about our operational excellence.
When I say that our delivery performance is back, back where it should be, that means that we're delivering above 96% on time in full. That is a really strong, strong message to our customers that we will deliver what we promise. I was a bit annoyed in the early part of 2025 when this took a little bit too long to get there. Now we are there. We have a few sites that are lagging, but the overall picture is very strong. From a quality point of view, we are continuing to deliver aligned with, for example, we were meeting, for example, the automotive industry demands when it comes to PPM levels. So we are doing way above what we have in our agreements and what our customers' expectations are here.
This is an area that I'm very proud of because the most annoying as a buyer is if your supplier don't deliver on time or if you have quality problems. Then you always discuss that those rather than extension of business. So I want to have these questions should be off the table. So our focus is to be strong. We should be better than the industry. And therefore, we are also not targeting to have our inventory turns about five because we think that that will give us flexibility to meet customers' demand. So even if I say that we have some SEK 100 million still available to free up in our inventory, but that's about when we have done that, I think we are aligned.
Now we are in the midpoint or just below midpoint of our target for inventory turns. But very important operational efficiency, operational excellence, and delivery performance is something that we see that as a necessity. So this is one of the areas that we focus on the most. Going into our segments, Q4 strong both in for the group. I think a lot of companies talk about their profitability on EBIT or EBITDA level. I think that for us, we also watch how we perform on the financial net and how we manage to get the profit in after tax. I think that's often neglected in today's reporting that if you're just positive on EBITDA, then everyone is quite happy.
I think that we work on all aspects of our P&L. I think for us to generate the cash we do, we need to be efficient in how we do with our financial activities. I think our finance net went down this quarter partly due to low debt, but also due to that we work heavily on assuring that we have the right setup here. For the year, I think, 10.1% underlying OP. I think we have reported one year better than that. I think that was 2022. We were slightly above this, but that was during a very extreme period of the EMS industry where growth were just as astronomic. I think we ended that year with 42% growth or something. So this is, to me, much more difficult to do.
So this is one of the, I would say 2025 is to me probably our best year from a, from an operational performance side. Cash flow, as I said, to, to be able to generate cash flow also after this acquisition of, of Custom, the extension of Torsby and the extensive CapEx program that we do on, on our investment side. I think that is really pleasing to see. So very proud of that. Moving on into our segments, I think this is also important. We, we were seeing that our Rest of W orld has developed very nicely during the year, 8.2%. I think that is the best we've done in, in, in that region. For Western Europe, 10.4%. We have been higher than that.
I remember a number of 10.9% for, I think that has also must have been 2022, but we're closing in on that and the last quarter is higher. So yes, we expect that we are where we want to be on this side. If you look at the different countries, Sweden continues to be strong, ±0. Yes, there is a lot of ups and downs in that number, I can tell you. So it's not a straightforward line here, but I think we do most activities in Sweden are done fairly good. UK, we're talking about it before, 30% or so down. We are expecting growth in UK for 2026. It's a bit like the EV segment.
We are at a level where it cannot go down, if I put it like that. But not only that, we see also good signals from some of our largest customers. The customer we talked about last year that has zeroed out their demands. So we are forecasting for them to go up to a level of maybe GBP 4 million-GBP 5 million this year. So that is a good recovery on that customer alone. So we also see that other of our larger customers are coming in with slight increases. So UK, we have good expectations of that we will do a good turnaround in that country for this year. Rest of W orld, yeah, good growth in Estonia, fairly good growth in China. And these numbers are also excluding or after currencies.
So the growth in local currencies are quite much stronger. For the year, I think we expect some growth in Estonia. I think China is a bit soft for 2026. So we will see where the Rest of W orld will end up during this year. But Estonia looks good. Bulgaria looks good, even though it's a small site. We have a lot of very interesting programs aligned for in the pipeline for Bulgaria. China is a bit, yeah, I wouldn't say problematic, but I would not be surprised if I see a few percent down when I summarize China for 2026. But all in all, I expect the Rest of W orld to continue to grow, but with small numbers for 2026. Moving on segments. If we take Industrial, that's our largest segment.
We saw slight growth in the Q4 . I would say that we are still running this on a fairly flat level for Q3 and Q4. There's a lot of ups and downs in this segment. I am expecting this to normalize and that we gradually will start to see better and better growth number for the year. Security and Defence ended up on the same level or slightly below. This is a segment that I think. I showed a slide, I think. I don't remember where it was, but we had 92% growth in 2024, good growth in 2023. And we see that 2025 is some kind of flattening, but on the trend line, we still expect this to grow.
I said that our expectation is that 30% year-over-year, until 2030, that is still valid and our order book is supporting that growth in the quarters to come. However, we are a bit cautious of the Q1 of how much the delays that we see will affect us. Communications, this was NOTE's second largest segment for many years. We have seen a decline. We see some hesitation from customers to invest. Now I see that some of our customers are indicating that this is a growing trend. For example, one of our customers, Waystream, another listed company, they have announced a few wins. We see that the order book to them is growing and growing.
We also announced in the spring of 2025 that we are taking over all the supply to them. So they discontinued their other source. So that's one customer that we expect to see good growth over for this year and the years to come. They have a very interesting product, or product portfolio, I would say. Medtech, there's, I said it before, there's just a few customers in this segment, maybe five, six that are sizable. And the overall picture is fairly good. We see that we had some big deliveries in the Q1 and Q2 to one of them, and those may not be coming into this year. They might come later on. So we are seeing Medtech that we flat or slightly negative outlook for the year. But that's related to one customer, I would say.
Greentech, finally, 22% for the year, driven by a few customers, but especially we introduced one new EV customer in the spring. That is, that customer alone is standing for at least half of the growth for this year. So the underlying demand in this segment is not that strong, even though it looks that way here. And this is to me, I said it before, I mean, without the charging stations, without the energy savings and so on. So I think the Europe is struggling with the productification of the electrification. So we see it, I think, the companies, the ones that we supply to and the companies outside in this segment, they are not doing fantastic.
So there has to be, there's no real incentive from the politicians to make this happen. There are a lot of talk, but there are very few initiatives at the moment. I think Sweden tried to put in a new EV car contribution, but that was really a lot of conditions for it. So, we will see how much effect that will have. If this should have a big effect, I think that it needs to be a broad subsidized that covers more people than what this will do to have an effect. So we are, yeah, my outlook of Greentech is probably that it's a flattish or slightly negative for the year. So when I look at the Industrial Security and Defence and communication is the areas that I see more positive outlooks from related to the others.
When I say more positive, I also see that the order book is supporting what I'm saying. So that's a bit easy. If you look at these graphs, what I've said before, if you grow 10%, you should grow your EBIT margin with 0.5%-1%. That's just the nature of fall- through or drop- through or whatever concept you're using. So if you don't get that, you should be really careful with what you do. Then you can argue if you want to win new customers, you might go down on margin and then that relation might be broken. But generally speaking, that is how this industry is working. If you can push more business through your existing factories, that will give you a good fall through. That's just how it is.
So if you look at the first half of my two graphs, they are very closely linked together. Good growth, good profitability increase. Then we had the decline in sales, and that was mirrored with the decline in profitability. So that's what I say that I'm really pleased in that we have broken that relation. So we managed to grow our profitability without growing our top line. That is significantly harder than to grow your margin without or with good growth. So what I see is that when our growth is coming back, that we expect we also see a good profitability development.
I said it before. I think we, when I started at NOTE, we introduced that 15% of our sales increase should land on the bottom line, maybe for the low-cost countries, that number might be 12%, but in some generic terms. So that's what I mean with that. If you grow heavily, your operating profitability will grow. And that's basically what we are expecting, that we will turn back into growth and we will also see a good profitability development for the year. And that's what we are targeting internally. I've not said so much about acquisitions, but there is always. I normally say that we talk with a few different targets. Some are more active than others. And I think that is still valid. We have a few very active dialogues.
We have a few initial dialogues where we're assessing if we should go into more active discussions and so on. My expectation is as always to close at least one acquisition for 2026. I think our balance sheet is supporting that. I know that our owners is expecting that we should be active in this area. The question is always, how do you find the right ones? That is what is challenging because there is a lot out there. What we are looking for is probably a slightly more sizable acquisition than small. Small is about the same type of work to close them and then the additional values is lower. I think Custom was one example of this relatively small company, but good profitability.
So that added some extra things. But what we really like with Custom is that they have such a strong customer pipeline. They're doing small parts to some customers, but now we're in dialogue to take over the volume parts that they don't do, for other sites. So I think that, yeah, my expectation of this acquisition is really strong, not only for the acquisition itself, but for the pipeline that they have generated. And I was in UK last week and participated in our sales meeting for UK and the pipeline looks really, really good. Pipeline means the customers that we are in dialogue with or negotiation with and so on. So that was really positive. And a good part of that pipeline is coming from the old Custom customers or dialogues.
So that's what we see. Yeah, as you know, I can speak forever, but I will summarize now that we are expecting 2026 to be a good year where we are seeing that our profitability is where we expect it to be. If we manage to get some growth on this, we will see good fall through numbers for the year. Good balance sheet, strong equity. We are prepared to take on more acquisitions and continue our investments in the future. And we also see that our order backlog that we have struggled with a bit in the last year is starting to increase and is coming in more and more into our expectations. So good ending of 2024 or 2025 and I am very positive in for 2026. So that's basically where we stand.
So I close there and I open up for questions. Should we as always start with questions from this room and then I move on to the web? Anders. Thank you, Johannes. So I was wondering first on the Security and Defence market. Yeah. I mean, in the quarter, you saw some deferrals driving, you know, 17% year-over-year drop in the segment. Yeah. And is your view that this was pretty much exclusively deferrals or is there some sort of lumpiness in Custom that we should consider? No, Custom came in just spot on to what they said. So this is purely due to our, how should I say, the old Defence security Defence customers. Okay. And that in turn, I mean, that's not driven by sort of customers' dual or, you know, multi-sourcing to a greater extent?
No, that is not to our knowledge. And we are pretty good at understanding where who's producing because it's quite hard to, if the product is hard to make for one, the customers have a tendency not to do a source to be clear. Yeah. Makes sense. And you're guiding kind of for, you know, softer start to 2026 in this segment. What's your sort of visibility, would you say, on what, you know, customers are doing? I would say that we have orders for the majority of 2026 in this segment, in the Defence part of this segment. The security part is slightly shorter. That is more normalized.
But in the Defence area, we see for this year, if we would deliver what the customers have ordered, we will see very good growth for this year. Okay. And finally, kind of on, we've discussed this before, but I mean, sort of normalized drop through levels in terms of particularly Western Europe. I mean, as you scale up Defence, how should one interpret that in terms of what the sustainable margin is for Western Europe going forward? And maybe a follow-up on that is, I mean, rest of world has been the profitability driver in recent quarters, right? In terms of margin development, what's should that continue or will there be a, you know, historically normalized level between rest of world and Western Europe in terms of, you know, profitability?
I think that if I look at the numbers, I backed up to this slide. If we say that we do 8% in Rest of W orld, I think that's good. That is a level. If we can continue to improve that with maybe 0.5% per year, if we continue to grow, I would be really pleased. Western Europe with the current mix we have, we can probably do, yeah, a bit more than where we are. I mean, in this quarter, I'm looking at Frida here, but I would say that we were doing probably 11.5%-12% in OP in Western Europe in Q4.
I don't have that number in front of me, but I would, because I think we were, we were roughly at 10 when, when after three quarters. So it should be in that, in that range. If I do 11.9 in Western Europe and in Q4. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Then my mathematics skills were, were okay. One point. Yeah. Okay. Now, so if we, if we continue with the mix, I think there's no, no reason why Western Europe should not continue to deliver good numbers. I think it's fair to say that the Rest of W orld should have low, lower, OP because we have lower margin of the, of the material. So there's much more material in the sales in that region.
So I think the analysts say that if we can do 11 on Western Europe and 8-9 on Rest of W orld, I would, I think that would be a good assumption. If we would get all the backlog out in this year in Western Europe, yes, I think that we can do even better. Very hard to say because it's a lot of ifs and buts. If I stand here and promise something, but my expectation is that we will not decline on operating profit this year compared to 2025 to be.
Okay. Yeah. Thank you, Johannes.
Thank you. Good questions already.
Just to follow up on the backlog here, which tend to be a pretty good indicator, as you said, of next quarter sales and also sort of next two quarter sales. In relation to the deferrals you mentioned in Security and Defence, is the backlog positively impacted by new orders coming in in Defence? And it's just a delivery issue for sales on top line or from Defence in Q1?
Yes. Yes. I, our order backlog is growing by the quarter and by the month. So we see the same as our customers are seeing. But we have had issues to get a few of these programs to run smoothly, if I put it like that.
We should also remember that Q, I think Q4 this in 2025 was our second best quarter, if I in actual terms. But Q4 last year was extraordinarily strong. So it's not by definition a weak quarter. So if we could remain on, but we're still unhappy with what we delivered. We had significantly higher orders than we managed to get out.
Thank you. And could you just elaborate on the other drivers of the order backlog improvement in Q4 and how much was driven by Defence?
I don't have that number, but I would say that the Defence grew more than the other areas, but I don't have the number.
Thank you.
Yeah. Go ahead, Anders.
Yeah. If no one else. Yeah. Just two more. Yeah. Questions.
So firstly, in terms of your view of consolidation in the industry, which I agree with, I mean, how are you working to ensure that you're not and you will not overpay for targets and kind of integrate them in a sustainable, good way? And to exemplify it, could you maybe elaborate a bit on how you're working with Custom in terms of integrating it into NOTE and Western Europe?
I will answer this question in two ways. I think the first question, I think there is a slight increase in multiples in the industry. I think that is fair to say.
I think if we see the last acquisitions that have been made and if you look at Kitron's acquisition of Delta Nordic, quite high multiple depending on how you look at it. If you look at the one or two years ahead, maybe not so high, but on current performance. So there is, but there is also, I would say a trend line between if it's an industry or a company that are supplying into, say, Industrial customers, maybe those multiples are not extending that much. If it's into the Security and Defence area, yes, those multiples are going up. So there is always a potential that you overpay.
The tricky part is always to see how sustainable the business that is currently in a target is because you don't know the customers because you haven't worked with them. If the customers that we have internally at NOTE that we have had for 5, 10, 15, 20 years, we have a pretty good idea where they are heading. But if you acquire something, you have like 2 months of due diligence to get to learn them. And then it's very hard to say, okay, did we really understand what happens in the, yeah, beyond one or two years away from today? So yes, that is always a risk. And we try to be very selective, especially when it comes to assessing the customer side at our targets.
The rest, I think we can fix, but if you acquire something that starts to decline in top line, that's much trickier to fix. So the second part of the question is that what we do when we acquire like Custom is that we try to get to know their customers. Me and our VP of UK, we are visiting the customers. We try to invite them. So we want to get to learn the Custom's customers. That's the biggest and most important integration that we can do. So that's what we do. And I think that is something that we have learned over time that the value of doing this is significant. So if we fail to do that, that's when we are having problems with acquisitions.
If we don't get to learn the customers, that's when we are failing. The rest, I mean, we are trying to buy companies that are doing well. We try to buy companies that have a profitability that is fairly much aligned with us. Custom was doing better. So we are not gonna push over our way of working into their way of working because they do it really good internally. So in this case, we do a very, what can I call it, low intense integration because we want them to continue as is in many ways. We just want to get to learn the customers and try to see can we get more after them by offering the full NOTE offering. Is that answering your questions?
Y eah, absolutely. Yeah. Thank you.
Thank you.
Any other questions in the room? Otherwise, we move on to from the web. We have one from Jon Hyltner. You mentioned that delays in Defence were due to products not going through the test phase. Were you referring to test of products you make or are you referring to other products in the value chain that your customer needs to get through test before the orders are? No, this was related purely to our internal production. We don't comment on our customer's ability to get them out on the market when we have delivered. So this is a product that we are starting up where internally that we have too high errors in the test system and then we want the customer wants to upgrade the systems rather than to have to increase the test content if you put it like that.
Then we have from Torbjörn at DNB Markets. Are you, are the deferrals solely related to testing or are you also seeing the bottlenecks else in, in the production phases? And is this concentrated among one or a few customers or more broad across Defence programs? I would say that this is, first I would say that we don't have any bottlenecks when it comes to capacity of producing. I think we have overcapacity in, in our, in our Defence producing facilities. We can do a lot more. We have prepared ourselves to meet the demand that we see three, four quarters away from today. So we can probably do 50% or more in, in the Security and Defence area from a capacity point of view. So that I don't see any problem whatsoever on. So then the second question is, it's a few customers and it is a few programs.
It's not, it's not all products. It's a few of the programs that we make that we have a significantly reduced output due to, due to this. But we still expect to deliver these orders in, in, in the near future. So again, delays, not, not lost sales. Going over to Henning, how do you currently evaluate the Waystream partnership due to their weak financials, apparently poor sales performance and the possible risk for the Lund plant? Good question. Yes, Waystream is a small company and we are working together with them to ensure that we do, we have the optimal capital allocation to run this business as efficiently as we can. But we are viewing them as very, they have very good products and I think their position on the market is strong.
So we are also seeing that their order book is growing in value. So we're not that concerned. They're still making money. They're still making positive cash flows. And we see the order book for them is increasing, in a good way. So not that afraid at the moment and we'll evaluate the partnership good. I like customers that are moving production back from China to Sweden and are very clear on that. So from that respect, I really think that they are leading the way in the reshoring that we have talked about a lot. How large CapEx investment should we expect in 2026? When it comes to equipment, machines and others, I think we will invest somewhere in the range of SEK 100 million-SEK 125 million.
Then there will be some building investments that are coming on top of that. I don't have that number in my head, but in, say, another SEK 20 million or so, give or take. Then from Alexander, could you please elaborate a bit about Custom's profitability given that it's much higher than your organic profitability? Yes, we don't go out with the specific numbers, but what we see is that Custom is running a lot of their production in what I call single piece flow or one piece flow. That means that they have a production setup that is basically adjusted for customers with very small series. And they have a very efficient way of producing these one to five board series.
And that is what is driving their profitability because they are very good in something that a lot of companies are not that good in. Many of our peers want to make larger series and then you have a production process that is set up for, say, 100+ boards in series. And here we do 1-5 is the normal batch size. So they have adapted to that way and so they have a few lines that are running volume products and they have a few lines that are running small series. And their way of setting this factory up is very well mirroring their demand. And that's why they are performing so well.
They are then on that, on top of that, they're really efficient in what they do, have a high technical competence. So they have a lot of; the customers are evaluating their—or putting a high value on the offering that they do. I would not say that we overprice. I would say that we are, that we are aligned with others, but we are significantly more efficient than what we would have been if we would have done the same products in some other of our factories. So they're simply doing it very good. Then a question from Johan: Was Custom consolidated from October 21st? The acquisition transaction closed. Is Custom included in the order backlog comparison with the prior year?
First question, I think we consolidated Custom from October 1st, so we had them in the full quarter. And secondly, I would say no, we were looking like for like. I think we put in, in the report. That means that Custom is not in, in included in the order backlog or they are included in order backlog, but not in, not in the 11% up that we see. Then one from Johan, how are rising copper pricing affecting your margins? Are you absorbing the increase or passing it through to clients? We are running most of our customers with what we call open books. That means that any price increases we see on, on the raw material, we will pass on to our customers. That is how the, how this equation is working.
And the same goes when the price goes down, that we pass those over to the customers as well. So we will pass most of it over to our customers. Then I have one from Grunde. Given your investment in Torsby, when do you think that facility will approach full utilization? I would say hopefully sooner than later, but we have doubled the capacity. I would say that we can; we are doing around SEK 1 billion in sales from the site. Then we can probably do SEK 2 billion-SEK 2.5 billion at the moment if we just look at the facility's ability to deliver. That our plan is that it should take at least five years until we're there. But when we extended the site in 2021, we expected that to last for five years and we were run out of space in two years.
But that was a very strong two years there in 2021 and 2022. So I don't have an answer. I hope that we will extend it again. We bought some land in the acquisition as well. So we can probably double the sites from where we are today. But when we are there, I would gladly do that as well. But we have a lot of trees as well at the moment. No, joke aside, but no, we think that we will grow into the site gradually over the coming years. And it's also, I mean, space is a very interesting measurement in what capacity you have because normally you run a lot of processes in single shift.
Often you run your machines that are expensive, those you run in two or three shifts, but you often run your assembly in one shift. In some odd occasions, you run them in two shifts. So you can say that you can often double your output just by adding a full shift. So there's space is a very bad measure of that. But then again, I mean, the cost of square meters are often lower than to run, for example, a night shift. So it's often more efficiently or more cost efficient to extend the building rather than to run full night shifts.
So, there's also a balance, but I would say that we're not expecting to run out of space in Torsby in the next five years at least, if I put it like that. But we are expecting to grow into the site very well in the coming, say, two to three years at least. We are expecting good growth for this year. We're expecting even better the years to come. And how should I say, the customer's feedback is very positive upon this extension. That was my last question I have here. So, if there's no more questions from the room, I would, with a few closing remarks, say that we, I think the market's looking better and better. I think we see that the demand is slowly but gradually coming back.
There are, as always, some geopolitical disturbances around, but I mean, those we have learned to live with as someone that I think I read that in DNB Markets a few days ago that that is the new normal. So let's just cope with it as best as we can and build robust processes to overcome the bottlenecks of this. I think what we will continue to do is to work with our flexibility, work with our operational performance, continue to grow relations with customers. We are expecting this year to be a good stepping stone for the future to come.
We are also showing here that we continue with our investment program with extending our capacity for the volumes that we are expecting to come. I also think that the consolidation of the industry will continue and we have good, what should I say, good hopes that we will do at least one more acquisition for the year. That's what we see. If there's not any more questions, I thank everyone for coming. I think it's a new time record with all these questions, but I liked them. Continue with submitting them and ask them. Thank you for coming and thank you for listening.