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| And so we feel really well positioned for that |
| What did this solid quarter include? Our quarterly revenue again exceeded $1 billion, up 3% over the prior quarter, and 25% higher than a year ago |
| Q1 marked another strong quarter of consistent performance and sequential top-line growth for ATI |
| Our team continues to build momentum, driving our business forward |
| That better absorption means improved margins |
| Completing the last step in the transformation of our Specialty Rolled Products business, the new line has state-of-the-art equipment and control systems that deliver best-in-the-world finishing capabilities |
| Everyone benefits from what your team is doing, our business, our customers, our team, and our shareholders |
| I think also what's incremental, what's affecting the incrementals, and you're seeing it, is the fact that as we continue to squeeze more production out of our asset base, that means we're getting better absorption |
| From where I sit, ATI is well positioned thanks to our increased capability, improved operational efficiency, and expanding titanium capacity |
| We believe these efforts enable us to capture upside demand that our competitors can't |
| Why is A&D mix so important? We generate some of our highest margins in commercial airframe and latest generation jet engine sales |
| They're driving operational efficiencies, capitalizing on new opportunities, and growing our capabilities |
| Message number two, continuing momentum in aerospace and defense is driving historic demand for ATI's materials |
| And good results |
| Even so, all signs indicate a positive trajectory this year |
| OEMs are bullish about aircraft deliveries, reaffirming future build rates |
| We've made great progress in the first quarter, and I thank every member of our team, both new and experienced, for all they're doing |
| ATI's significant wide-body content provides strong tailwinds across our commercial aerospace portfolio |
| We're excited to see this progress and expect growth in this core market to continue |
| Quarterly jet engine sales grew by 58% over the same period last year, driven by continued growth in specialty materials and forgings |
| And so as we are bringing more capacity online, both through our incremental efforts around productivity and yield improvements as well as the new assets or the idled assets in Oregon coming online, we're more -- we're able to get transactional selling prices |
| Quarterly defense sales grew 24% over the same period last year |
| This adds flexibility and nimbleness to our operations, allowing us to react and meet our customers' changing needs |
| It's roll, fly, and float, and business is really strong, and we expect that to continue into the future |
| One, we're expecting continued top line growth in the business and mix improvement as we've seen that mix continue to move in the direction we want it to go |
| It highlights the tremendous progress we're making toward our 65 percent A&E sales target |
| So I think that speaks well to the opportunities |
| And then as you take that -- take the other goals that we shared for 2025, the EBITDA margin guidance of 18% to 20%, again, our confidence level is very, very strong when it comes to our ability to generate to the mid or high end of that range, which creates a really interesting value proposition for investors when you think about a business that in 2022 delivered $550 million of EBITDA |
| We're very confident |
| We see this strength continuing, enhanced by our increasing capacity and improving efficiencies |
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| It also reflects our expectation that sales in our Asian Precision Rolled Strip business will continue to be pressured due to China's economic conditions |
| More specifically, we're also seeing continued softness in China |
| That's when equipment deliveries were delayed due to supply chain challenges |
| As we shared with you last quarter, we continue to see softness in our smaller industrial markets |
| Year-over-year, they do create a 90 basis point margin headwind |
| Consolidated adjusted EBITDA margins were down compared to a year ago, 12.8% in Q1 2023 versus 15% in Q1 2022 |
| And we were not willing to take orders that we didn't have confidence that we could deliver |
| Our melt assets are operating at higher levels, and we're continuing to challenge nameplate capacity |
| With the tragic situation in Ukraine, the world has lost access to a third of the titanium supply that was in the market in 2021 |
| So for both of the segments, we did see modest headwinds in that regard |
| So where we don't provide and aren't vertically integrated on our billet supply, we are seeing some delays due to billet |
| We did see some modest metal headwinds |
| Despite some supply chain and delivery delays, the signals are clear |
| Another factor impacting comparative margins is $9 million of incremental post-retirement benefit costs in Q1 2023 |
| What I am seeing, though, that continues to be tight in creating some bottlenecks is around forging billet and mainly in the nickel-alloy powder billets and specialty steel billets, and there's a widely reported Q4 time melt shop explosion |
| A couple bumps in the supply chain around incoming materials and forgings from non-ATI sources is probably the number one issue that we're dealing with |
| And with those new employees as they were learning their new roles, they, of course, were not as efficient through that process as they are today |
| And so we saw them pull back modestly in Q1, which has a modest impact to our business in a -- from a headwind standpoint |
| Just could you talk a little -- Don, you mentioned the $2 million, $3 million sequential pressure at high-performance metals |
| I don't think any of us expected a flawless ramp, and we haven't been disappointed in that expectation |
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