Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the SKAN Group publication of full year results 2025 conference call. I am Valentina, the call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star one on your telephone. Webcast viewers may submit their questions via the relative field. For operator assistance, please press star zero. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Thomas Huber, CEO. Please go ahead.
Thank you, Valentina, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank, you for joining us today. I'm Thomas Huber, CEO of the SKAN Group since January one this year. This morning we reported our 2025 results and with me today is Burim Maraj, our Chief Financial Officer. Together we will go through the presentation. Let me go briefly through the agenda. Burim will start with the overview of the past business year. I will then talk about the strategy execution before I hand back to Burim for the details of the financial results. After that, I will briefly talk about my first year as CEO and then the outlook for the next year. At the end, we plan to have some time for questions. With that, I hand over to Burim.
Thank you, Thomas. Let me start with a brief overview of the financial year 2025. 2025 was a year of solid order intake. We continued our strategic progress, but also of timing shifts in the project business. That affected mainly the net sales and of course, the earnings. The order intake increased to CHF 370.6 million. When we look regionally, the picture was mixed. We saw very strong demand in Europe while business in the United States was more cautious. At the same time, our success rate on the submitted orders and realized projects remained at around 50%. That confirms our strong position in the relevant high-end segment where we are in with SKAN. The order backlog increased also to CHF 346 million, and this gives us a good visibility, especially in the equipment business.
When we look at the net sales, it declined by 7.7% to CHF 333 million. The main reason here, as we have in the past communicated, was exceptionally the high number of project postponements, primarily vaccine lines that were deprioritized by customers, mainly due to resource constraints on the customer side. What is important here is the business has not been lost. Net sales recognition has shifted into future periods. As we also highlighted in the past, it will be 2026 and some of them will shift in 2027. In our business, that's not unusual. We are in the project business, but 2025, it happens to a clearly above average extent. As a consequence, both EBITDA and EBITDA margin came below the prior year level.
EBITDA amounted to CHF 38.6 million and the margin corresponding to 11.6%. Nevertheless, we continue to invest decisively in the future of the business. The total investments amounted to CHF 45.9 million, and we invested significantly in our strategic initiative, Pre-Approved Services. In addition, the two acquisitions we made with Metronik and ABC Transfer expanded our portfolio and further strengthened our position in the higher margin service and consumables business. These steps enhance our strategic position and open up additional growth and earnings potential. Despite what was an operationally demanding year for us, we generated net profit of CHF 17.6 million and the board of directors will propose a dividend of 22 cents per share corresponding to a payout ratio of 30%.
When we look at the segment level on the next slide, the Equipment and Solutions demand for complex filling lines for oncology and biotech applications remains fundamentally intact. However, the financial performance was in this segment, as mentioned, impacted by the project postponements, which created production gaps. We were able to partially compensate these by preproducing our standardized isolators, especially for the sterility testing. At the same time, we continue to make strategic progress in the Integrated Process Solutions, which Thomas will elaborate a little bit later on that. We maintained also our investments in R&D. In Services and Consumables, the picture was very robust. The installed base continued to grow, which is important because it forms the foundation for sustainable growth going forward.
In addition, Metronik and ABC contributed positively to both net sales and earnings and supported the strategic expansion of our high-margin Services and Consumables. We further advanced Pre-Approved Services initiatives. We have guided several customers through the launch facility. We got a very positive feedback from them. The commercial launch is unchanged in the second half of 2026. Overall Equipment and Solutions were temporarily impacted by project postponements while the Services and Consumables performed robustly and supported the Group's strategic development. Saying that, I will hand over to Thomas for the strategic overview.
Right. SKAN Group strategy remains unchanged, and as many of you are already familiar with this slide, therefore, I will only give a brief overview before moving on to the progress we made in 2025. Our strategy aims to continue our growth, increase the share of recurring business, and improve profitability. We focus on four strategic pillars that reinforce each other and strengthen our position along the entire value chain. The first pillar is about consolidating and further expanding our market share in our core business. Innovation and deep process understanding play a major role here. The second pillar focus on increasing our share of wallet. We are expanding our offering with additional elements along the value chain. These first two pillars grow our installed base and create a foundation for the growth in the third pillar.
The third pillar, our service and consumable business, is a key driver of recurring revenues with attractive margins. The fourth pillar is digitalization. We believe that digital capabilities will become a strong differentiator in our markets. Go to the next slide. I will now turn to our achievements in 2025. In pillar one, I want to speak about the E-beam technology. We are the clear technology leader in that field of E-beam systems. We have now installed more than 50 E-beam systems, and we will continue to expand our portfolio in this area. In addition, we have developed a fully modular line for aseptic ATMP manufacturing, enabling us to serve a key market and one of the fastest-growing pharmaceutical segments even better than before. In pillar two, we delivered our first integrated process solution system, which is a very important milestone for us.
It will go into operation this year and will serve as a reference for future sales. In pillar three, we strengthened our service and consumable business through two strategic acquisitions, Metronik and ABC Transfer. I will briefly discuss both companies on a later slide. Then we have now eight drugs filled in RTU vials that are now on the market, with 19 approvals from six regulatory authorities. Our customers have achieved fewer approvals than expected. However, the pipeline of drugs in RTU closed vials remains strong, and we can look very positively to the future. In pillar four, we have begun using AI to increase service productivity. We go to the next slide. A few words about our Pre-Approved Services and status.
The Pre-Approved Services will enable our customers to perform stability testing directly on the SKAN system in advance, thereby significantly shortening the time to market for new drugs. We have invested significantly in developing this capability, and we still plan the commercial launch in the second half of 2026. The project has been slightly delayed due to higher complexity in the digitalization and automation area, but our goal of serving the first customer this year remains unchanged. Let me give a little more color regarding the delay here. We are building a multimodality manufacturing site, which comes with a high level of complexity that we partially underestimated. The important point is this, all systems have been installed, all of them are functioning, and we are now working on preparing everything for regulatory approval.
Once again, the commercial launch is still planned for the second half of this year. The acquisition of Metronik significantly expands our offering and strengthens our services and software business. Metronik is a leading provider of digitalization and automation solutions for regulated life science production. Metronik works with blue-chip customers such as Novartis and Sandoz, and completed more than 20 projects in 10 European countries last year. The expertise of SKAN and Metronik is highly complementary, enabling us to deliver substantial added value to our customers. Let me go to the next slide. Our second acquisition strengthens our consumable portfolio. ABC Transfer is an innovation leader in patented, safe, rapid transfer systems. Its ports, containers, and transfer bags meet Annex 1 requirements and are compatible with existing market standards.
ABC is still a small company, but its customers already include leading pharmaceutical companies such as GSK, Sanofi, Lilly, and Merck. With this acquisition, we further expand our position in high-margin recurring business segment. With that, this concludes my first remarks, and I hand back to Burim for the financial results.
Thank you, Thomas. Let me now come to the order intake, where the overall picture remained robust. Order intake increased by 3.1% to CHF 370.6 million. This confirms the demand that remains fundamentally intact and continues to prove a solid basis for future growth. What also matters is the quality of order intake. As a large share of the pipeline consists of projects in the oncology therapies, particularly antibody-drug conjugates, where we are strongly, historically stronger, strongly, positioned in that segment. Over the course of the year, however, the pattern became more differentiated. After a strong first half with CHF 213 million order intake in the second half amounted to CHF 157.7 million. In the U.S., we initially saw a certain degree of caution following the so-called Liberation Day.
At the end of May and June, we were then being able to win several larger projects, which initially made us more confident for H2. Nevertheless, now we know the development in the region remained softer overall the second half. This was mainly driven by longer decision cycles and the general challenging geopolitical environment. The important point is that we do not see structural weakness in demand. The pipeline is still on a high level with about CHF 1.4 billion. What we are seeing is primarily a timing shift in decisions and revenue realization. Regionally, on the right side, Europe remains the largest market with 62.4%, followed by the Americas with 28.5%.
The lower share of Americas reflects the softer development in the U.S., as mentioned, while growth was mainly supported here. We see we have been growing by 8%, but the growth came mainly driven from services and consumables segment in that region. The decline in Asia was primarily due to strong prior-year comparison. When we move from the order intake to net sales on the next slide, the difference between demand and realization becomes very visible. Net sales declined by 7.7% to CHF 333 million. On a consistent currency base, the decline was 6.4%. As already mentioned, the main reason was an exceptionally high number of project postponements, which shifted revenue recognition into future periods, into the current year, but also in 2027.
I want here to be very clear on this point. It is not a lost business. It is first and foremost a timing effect that can happen in our project business, although in 2025 it was clearly above the normal level. This becomes particularly visible in the half year comparison, what we have in the middle. Net sales in the first half amounted to CHF 134.6 million, and in the second half they increased to almost CHF 200 million, which is around 48% above H1. This recovery was primarily driven by a catch-up effect from the sale of pre-produced standard systems, particularly in sterility testing. At the same time, order backlog increased from CHF 318 - 346 million, which gives us a good visibility and planning reliability for the coming periods.
You have to consider that around CHF 15 - 20 million within this backlog is currently subject to potential cancellation risk. Importantly, the positions have no impact on the current year's revenue planning because they are not included in our current expectations. When we look now at the next slide on the EBITDA, it declines by 32.3% to CHF 38.6 million, with a margin of 11.6%. Earnings were impacted by the lower net sales, mainly from the project business as already elaborated. With this, particularly important, however, is the development over the course of the year. EBITDA was generated almost entirely in the second half. After CHF 0.9 million in H1, we reached almost CHF 38 million in H2.
That corresponds to a margin of around 19% and clearly shows the strong dynamic and earnings power of our business. There were also positive effects on the cost side. On the left side, what we see, the material intensity improved from 26.4% to 23%, mainly thanks to the higher share of service and consumables that also supported the gross margin. This was offset by higher personal and other operating costs, mainly as a result of the acquisitions and continued resource expansion. This reflects our unchanged positive view on long-term growth of SKAN and the need to build qualified resources at the early stage.
In our industry, as you may recall, it takes about or around one year for new employees to become fully productive. Because the required capabilities are typically not available externally and are developed through our own SKAN Academy and on the job. Overall, 2025 earnings were clearly burdened by lower sales, but profitability improved significantly in the second half and provide a solid basis for further development. When we take a deeper look on the segment, order intake in the segment Equipment and Solutions at CHF 248 million was slightly below the prior year, while backlog increased by CHF 3.6- 293 million. The somewhat softer order intake was mainly driven by delayed customer decisions, as I mentioned before, particularly in the U.S.
Several customers secured production slots and placed engineering orders, which provides a good basis for larger follow-on orders. Net sales in this segment declined by 20% to CHF 216.8 million, and this was mainly due to the project postponements as mentioned, and the temporary suspension of a larger GLP-1 project which we also have communicated in the past. EBITDA declined to CHF 9.4 million, with a margin of 4.3%. At the same time, profitability improved significantly in the second half. After a negative EBITDA of CHF 9.1 million in H1, we saw clear recovery in H2, supported in part by the sale of pre-produced standard systems. In parallel, we also continued our strategic investments in a very consistent way.
About 7.4% of net sales was invested in innovation, particularly in Integrated Process Solutions, where we already have delivered the first machine to our customers last year. On the next slide, Services and Consumables present a clearly more robust picture. The order intake increased to CHF 122 million corresponding to a growth of 17%. Organic growth was 2.4%, which is a solid result against a very high comparison base from 2024. The prior year was particularly shaped by the strong performance of Aseptic Technologies. We had also larger spare parts orders and multi-year maintenance contracts, which we recorded in 2024 and generate revenue in the next years. Net sales increased by almost 29% to CHF 116.5 million. Also here, organic growth was 11%.
This was mainly driven by the further expansion of the installed base as well as the retrofit business. This is strategically very important for us because a larger installed base forms the foundation for sustainable revenue growth in Services and Consumables in spare parts, but also the retrofit business. Profitability in this segment also remained at a high level. EBITDA rose from CHF 29.2 million with a margin of 25%. As you see, the margin declined slightly due to the extraordinary performance of Aseptic Technologies in the prior year, but it still demonstrate the quality of this business in the segment. Additional momentum came from Metronik and ABC Transfer, which have been consolidated since August 2025 and contributed positively to both net sales and earnings.
Finally, we see also here order backlog in this segment increased to CHF 53.1 million, which is up 50% and strengthens again the visibility and planning reliability in this segment. When we go on the next slide to cash flow and ROCE, here the overall picture remains solid. Operating cash flow increased significantly to CHF 64.1 million, which is supported by customer advance payments, solid order intake as mentioned, and also disciplined working capital management. At the same time, we continue to invest consistently. Investing cash flow mainly reflects the expansion of Pre-Approved Services supplemented by the two acquisitions. In the financing cash flow largely reflects the funding of these transactions through the new RCF facility. ROCE stood at 10.3% below prior year.
This was mainly due to higher capital employed and, as you know, a lower EBIT. In our view is primarily a temporary effect of our growth investments. On the next slide, when we look at the balance sheet, despite the acquisitions, the overall picture remains also here solid. Total assets increased by 25.1% to CHF 481 million, mainly attributable to the two acquisitions and the related balance sheet effects. At year-end, we reported a net debt of CHF 37.4 million, which corresponds to a net debt EBITDA ratio of 0.97. In our view, this continues to underline a low and manageable leverage profile, which also leaving us sufficient financial flexibility to fund future growth.
On the right side, the non-current financial liabilities increased from CHF 9.5 million to almost CHF 130 million, primarily again reflecting the two acquisitions and the related RCF financing. Total equity amounted to CHF 127.6 million, corresponding to an equity ratio of 26.5%. The main decline versus prior is mainly acquisition-related and largely linked to the accounting treatment of the goodwill from the two transactions. In our view, this is therefore not an indication of structurally weaker balance sheet quality, but first and foremost an accounting effect related to the acquisitions. Dividends.
On the next slide, despite the lower net profit of CHF 16.3 million and earnings per share of 0.72, we, the Board of Directors, will propose a dividend of CHF 0.22 per share to the Annual General Meeting. This corresponds to a payout ratio of 30%. On the next slide or my closing slide, if I have to summarize 2025 in one sentence, it was a year of temporary timing shifts on the revenue side, but at the same time, one of intact demand, robust order intake, and strategic progress that positions SKAN well for the next phase of growth. Saying that, I hand over to Thomas Huber for the overview.
Thank you, Burim. We go to the next slide. In my first 80 days at SKAN, I was able to meet many colleagues. I visited key sites around the globe and engaged with many, many customers. Today I would like to share some of my observations with you. What I've seen confirms that SKAN is built on exceptional strengths that position us extremely well for the future. First, SKAN is a leader in a growth market driven by long-term structural trends, and I will come back on a later slide . In our niche, we actively shape this market. Second, our technology leadership is unmatched in many areas. The depth and uniqueness of our know-how in some areas built over years are extremely difficult to replicate. First, SKAN has an exceptionally strong company culture.
The passion, expertise, and dedication of our employees are impressive. This includes, and this is very important, a strong customer focus, which was confirmed repeatedly in my conversations with many customers. This culture is a true competitive advantage. Fourth, we have a long-standing trusted partnerships with customers and partners. These are built on performance, reliability, and shared understanding. Finally, the SKAN Group has the right strategy, a strategy focused on sustained growth and increasing profitability. For 2026, we have clear priorities. First, accelerate growth in our Services and Consumables business, a strategic pillar with high potential for recurring revenues at attractive margins. In 2026, this includes the market launch of Pre-Approved Services in the second half of 2026 and securing the first customers for that service. This also includes completing the integration of our recent acquisitions, Metronik and ABC Transfer.
Second, strengthen our processes under our organization. After several years of strong growth, now is the right time to sharpen execution, streamline operations, and prepare the organization for the next phase of growth. Now to go to the next slide, and we come to the outlook and guidance. As mentioned earlier, our market continues to benefit from underlying structural growth drivers. These include a continued expansion of the global pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, a strong shift towards injectable drugs. They're now dominating drug form in development pipelines driven by biologics, biosimilars, and cell and gene therapies. The replacement of traditional clean rooms with safer and more sustainable isolator technology, and the ongoing reshoring of pharmaceutical production, particularly to the United States, which is really happening. These dynamics support sustained demand for SKAN's equipment and very important for our services and consumables.
Our solid order backlog and pipeline reflect this clearly. Now, turning to the business development. Based on these fundamentals, we, the board and the management team, are confident for the current year. In the biotech sector, momentum is improving, and we are seeing a healthy level of project discussions. We believe that this is translating into faster decision cycles and significantly fewer investment delays than last year. In cell and gene therapy, we are seeing a rebound after two -three years of capital scarcity. Projects are restarting, funding is returning, and while we do not yet see an increase in orders at SKAN from this area, we expect to benefit from this renewed momentum going forward.
With our premium technology, our deep expertise, and the expanded capabilities gained through our recent acquisitions, we are now better positioned to deliver a holistic offering across the biotech value chain, enhancing customer value and unlocking meaningful additional growth potential. In summary, SKAN is a strong company in a strong market with the right strategy and the right capabilities to create meaningful growth and attractive returns. With that, we come to the guidance. Let me now turn to our guidance for the full year 2026. As you review our guidance, I would like to highlight a few important assumptions. Our guidance assumes no major escalations in tariffs and that the impact of the conflict in Iran remains limited, meaning it does not materially affect customer investment appetite in our core markets, specifically the U.S. and Europe. As in previous years, our guidance also assumes no significant currency effects.
Now turning to the guidance. For the full year 2026, we expect sales growth in the upper teens. Our EBITDA margin is forecast to be in the range of 13%-15%, and our midterm outlook remains unchanged with mid to upper teens sales growth and a gradual increase of EBITDA margin to upper teens. This concludes our prepared remarks, and we are now open to questions.
We will now begin the question and answer session. Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press star and one on their touchtone telephone. You will hear a tone to confirm that you have entered the queue. If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press star and two. Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question. Webcast viewers may submit their questions via the relevant field. Anyone who has a question may press star and one at this time. At the moment, we have no questions from the phone. We now have a question from the phone from Estelle Beneteau from Berenberg. Please go ahead.
Yes, hello, and thank you very much for taking my question. Yeah, I just wanted to ask you where you stand currently on the execution of the projects that got postponed last year. Have you managed to really start straight from January? Yeah, how do you see the situation in the U.S. so far, if it has normalized a little bit or yeah, following the cautiousness in second half last year?
This is Thomas. Let me first answer the second question on the cautiousness of the U.S. market. I mean, the second half of last year was clearly not fantastic, and we saw a lot of cautiousness. In the meantime, we see this much improving, so we have a lot of very good project discussions and also orders from the U.S. market. It looks like, at least for the time being, that the cautiousness has gone away quite a bit.
Maybe I can add to the first questions regarding the progress of the postponed projects. As these were mainly vaccine lines where we have won during the COVID times, we have made a quite significant progress, but the last step or the last portion, the set into operation of the customer has been postponed or deprioritized. As we also mentioned, it will progress but on a lower level. We expect the revenue, which is not really significant. As you may recall, our revenue recognition is the last 10%-15%, which will be realized during 2026. Also, we know it will take a little bit more, so it will be also shift in 2027. The impact is on a lower level for the current year.
Okay. Thank you.
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Okay, operator, then we take the questions from the webcast. Operator?
I don't have questions from the webcast. I don't know if you can proceed with that.
Yes, we have some questions from the webcast. We have a question from Dave Robertson from Chilton Asset Management, who is asking if he could split out the successful quotation rate between Europe and the Americas.
Well, as mentioned, the success rate in Europe was, of course, significantly higher. It was higher. As elaborated, in the US, we clearly saw a cautiousness in decision-making of projects. Currently, what we see is, again, this rebound in the US. We see more activity now compared to the Q4 2025. Europe was on a stronger level.
The second question is, what was the acquisition impact for 2025, and if this should be pro rata calculated to get the 2026 full year impact?
The impact is mainly in the services and consumables business, as you see, in the slides which we have disclosed. From a net sales point of view, it was CHF 60 million, and on a margin point of view it has a single-digit impact. As you have seen, it's only consolidated from August on. Next year we also expect a growth in this acquisition. Just having the same pro rata for the next year, maybe it's quite conservative. Yeah. The impact on the balance sheet, as I elaborated, is on the equity. Equity ratio, we have offset the goodwill that we paid against the equity. That's why the equity ratio decreased from 52% - 26%.
Structurally, again, it's an accounting topic and not a structural weakness of our finance structure.
We have third question asking what the level of CapEx can be expected for coming years.
For the majority of our CapEx cycle, as we disclosed in the past, was increasing our production capacity and the main investment went into Pre-Approved Services. As we are in the completion phase of Pre-Approved Services, the CapEx will remain on a mid-single-digit level of the net sales.
We have a question from Martin Reber, who is writing that the U.S. has been considered by Federal Council as a country at war. Whether SKAN is somehow or will suffer from them if isolators could be dual-use goods.
Yeah. Our customers are big pharma companies, and they are not regarded as weapon manufacturers. Therefore, we don't see this as a risk.
We have, for the time being, the last questions in the webcast from Teresa Vilanova from UBS, who's asking how much conservatism does the 2026 guidance in that.
Let me answer this in the following way. Last year we missed our guidance and had to correct it. We certainly have no intention of repeating that. In that sense, I would say it's our best estimate of the current year. But there is of course always a little bit of unknown and maybe conservatism in it.
Operator, that's all from the webcast now.
Thank you. We now have a follow-up question from Estelle Beneteau from Berenberg. Please go ahead.
Yes, thank you. Maybe to follow up on the previous question. So just to be sure to understand correctly, like this is opportune guidance for 2026. Does it account for the cancellation risk that you mentioned, CHF 15 - 20 million, or in case this cancellation happens......
No, it doesn't.
Yeah.
Sorry?
Yeah, just to say that in case this happens, this get canceled, would this growth be then a bit lower?
No. As I elaborated, we didn't plan with this order to happen or to recognize any revenue or impact in 2026.
Okay.
Let me clear. In the guidance, it is assumed that this project will not happen.
Exactly.
You could say, if any, it's an upside.
Okay. What does it mean for the midterm guidance? What gives you really the confidence to maintain that guidance? Yeah. Maybe we could give a bit more color on that one.
Of course, you know, we currently have the resources to create sales for more than what we will do this year. In a way, we have already built the resources that we need for next year's sales. That will certainly have a positive impact in our EBIT margin going forward. We will also grow our Services & Consumables and software business over proportionally. The underlying market and our pipeline is strong, so we have a lot of very good customer discussions. We are actually very confident on this year, but also going forward from this point of view today.
Okay. Thank you. Maybe if I can just ask a last one. You were talking about the CapEx beforehand. If you could just tell us a bit more how it's evolving in the U.S. right now. I think you were discussing about looking for assembly lines previously. Yeah, what update you can provide us, that would be helpful.
We had this topic with increasing production capacity in the U.S. Currently, when we reflect again, we have built out Germany, we have increased capacity in Switzerland. We are building a logistic hub in Germany. From today's point of view, we have enough capacity, meaning assembly halls until 2029, somewhat 2029. As soon as we will grow or we will need to re-evaluate the need building up an assembly hall in the U.S., 'cause currently it is not needed. Okay. Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was the last question from the phone. Back over to you for any written questions from the webcast.
Arthur Sohn? Yes, there is one more question from the webcast from Antoine Giger about launch of Zürcher Kantonalbank. Maybe an indication is if you look at the second half of last year, our EBIT margin was around 19%, roughly with roughly CHF 200 million of sales. That gives you a little bit the way we are thinking and how we need to set up ourselves for the future. That's exactly what we are doing. There is a lot of confidence that in the next couple of years we can increase our margin. Of course, there's also market pressure. We are not alone in that market. This is potentially one of the reasons why we have not been more successful at expanding margin.
If you remember the second topic I had, the second priority I had for this year on the slide was also looking more about, you know, optimizing our processes, working on productivity topics and setting up the organization for the future. These are all activities we are starting now. As in the past, all the activities have been focused on growth. We now have a more balanced approach to this. Burim, you want to add something? Exactly. Just as an addition to that, the clear margin driver, as we always said for the midterm, is once we are commercial with Pre-Approved Services. This is the one, the first driver.
The second driver is clearly also the consumables business, Aseptic Technologies, and now also Metronik, but also ABC Transfer with the BetaBag business, which is clearly the main margin drivers in the Services & Consumables business. What makes us confident when we look at the pipeline of our customers and the approvals, the majority of the medications that are approved is injectable dosage forms. This trend is still happening, or it continues to happen. That our solution is needed also to fill in this segment. For the moment, the fundamentals are still intact, as mentioned during the presentation. This gives us a clear confidence for the mid-term growth.
We have another question from Thomas Seghers from Mirabaud, who is saying that another question regarding CapEx. Mid-single-digit% to sales would be a very low CapEx in full year 2026 and going forward. Is this correct?
This is correct, as we are not a capital-intensive business. Maintenance CapEx is around 2%. Now for 2026, what remains as CapEx is the finalization of Pre-Approved Services, and as I mentioned, the logistic hub, which will be done during 2026 and may be a small portion in 2027.
There are currently no more questions from the webcast. I see no more questions in the telephone conference. I would say we wrap it up.
Hey, thank you all for listening in and looking forward to all the further exchanges. Again, we are very confident for this year, but also the years for the coming years. SKAN is a solid business and, you know, very happy with where we are today, going forward. Thank you all, and have a good day. Thank you.
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