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Albany International Corp machine CLOTHING 2012 Annual Report & 10-K engineered COMPOSITES albany INTERNATIONAL our investment proposition A small cap with the cash generation potential of a value stock combined with the revenue potential of a growth stock. our strategy Focus and lead. Focus on markets in which our core capabilities in advanced textiles and materials provide the basis for sustainable advantage, and in those markets, strive for total leadership – best products and services first to market, with the highest quality and reliability, and at the lowest costs of operation possible. our near-term objective Execute. Maintain market leadership and financial performance in Machine Clothing. Prepare for the ramp in AEC. our long-term objective Cash flow and grow. Year over year, steadily improving earnings coupled with a strong balance sheet and excess cash flow. Albany International is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company, with two core businesses. Machine Clothing is the world’s leading producer of custom-designed fabrics and belts essential to production in the paper, nonwovens, and other process industries. Albany Engineered Composites is a rapidly growing supplier of highly engineered composite parts for the aerospace industry. Albany International is headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire, operates 18 plants in 11 countries, employs 4,000 people worldwide, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Symbol AIN). Additional information about the Company and its products and services can be found at www.albint.com. financial HIGHLIGHTS 2012 Q1 2012 Q2 2012 Q3 2012 Q4 Net sales: Machine Clothing $164.3 $177.1 $177.5 $174.3 Engineered Composites 15.8 14.8 17.1 20.0 except per share $180.1 $191.9 $194.6 $194.3 Operating income ($ 0.9) ($ 86.0) $ 23.1 $ 19.7 Earnings per share - basic 1.50 (1.08) 0.30 0.27 Earnings per share - diluted 1.49 (1.08) 0.30 0.26 US $ million, 2010 2011 2012 US $ million, except per share data Net sales $742.9 $787.3 $760.9 Gross profit 282.0 314.2 305.4 Operating income/(loss) 64.7 74.6 (44.1) Net income 37.6 34.9 31.0 Earnings per share - basic 1.21 1.12 0.99 Earnings per share - diluted 1.21 1.11 0.97 Years ended December 31 Years pg18 table of CONTENTS pg12 pg6 pg2 1. Financial Highlights 2. Letter to Shareholders 6. Machine Clothing 12. Engineered Composites 18. Global Locations 19. Form 10-K 1 letter to SHAREHOLDERS Joseph G. Morone President & Chief Executive Officer cash and net sales grow 2010 2011 2012 742.9 787.3 760.9 (US$ million) Albany International saw another strong year in 2012. market leader, with twice the market share of the Despite a particularly challenging environment in next largest competitor, a significant price premium Europe, and a disappointingly slow start to the year, in most markets, a broad and deep product portfolio adjusted EBITDA grew almost 3 percent, both and technology pipeline, a global manufacturing businesses performed well, and the balance sheet footprint with world-class capacity in the geographic strengthened dramatically, with net debt declining segments that are growing (Asia and South America), to $129 million from $256 million at the end of 2011, and disproportionate strength in the product and unfunded pension liabilities to $45 million from segments that are growing (tissue, packaging, pulp, $101 million. and nonwovens). For all of these reasons, we view Machine Clothing as a long-term core business In many respects, the short-term performance of with potential for strong margins and steady our two businesses in 2012 mirrored their long-term adjusted EBITDA and cash generation, but at potential. As I have written before and discussed continuing risk of little or negative sales growth, with many of you at investor conferences, while due mainly to downward pressure on revenue in the market for Machine Clothing offers little if any Europe as the result of overcapacity in the paper potential for growth, Albany is the industry’s clear and machine clothing industries. 2 . I do not foresee any significant changes to the objectives or strategy that we pursued in 2012. We are confident that the optimal path to creation of shareholder value is to stay the course in 2013 and beyond. adjusted EBITDA* long-term debt 2010 2011 2012 2010 2011 2012 115.5 141.3 145.4 423.6 373.1 235.9 All of these long-term attributes were on display in For Albany Engineered Composites, 2012 was all 2012. Sales, adjusted EBITDA, and cash generation about building capacity for rapid future growth. were steady around the world except for Europe, AEC revenue grew from $48 million in 2011 to which, for all the familiar reasons, ended the year $68 million in 2012. Half of this total revenue and with sales 15 percent lower than 2011. Global virtually all of the growth were associated with market share grew; market share among the development of new opportunities. Development leading papermakers in each region of the world activities associated with the LEAP fan module held steady or improved; the R&D and product accounted for a third of total 2012 revenue, and pipeline strengthened and then was further two-thirds of the growth. enhanced with our decision late in the year to invest $15 million in a rapid scale-up facility for One of the highlights of this accelerating new technology in our plant in Kaukauna, development effort was the launch of construction Wisconsin; and Albany was again selected by of two manufacturing facilities for the production Procter & Gamble as one of its top eight suppliers, of parts for the LEAP engine. Plant 1, which is out of a base of some 75,000 suppliers. located in Rochester, New Hampshire, is scheduled * EBITDA from continuing operations, excluding restructuring charges, revaluation effects, pension settlement charges, and gains from building sales. 3 Our objective in AEC is to establish Albany as the leading Tier 2 supplier of highly engineered composites to the aerospace industry, and to realize its growth potential of $300 million to $500 million in revenue by 2020. for start-up in the fourth quarter of 2013; start-up of Outlook Plant 2, in Commercy, France, is scheduled for 2014. As I write this letter in March 2013, I do not foresee Other highlights included production of LEAP parts any significant changes to the objectives or strategy for testing by Safran; continued maturation of the that we pursued in 2012. We are confident that the production process for the LEAP program; continued optimal path to creation of shareholder value is to development of the AEC organization, processes, stay the course in 2013 and beyond. For the and systems; great success in hiring new staff, foreseeable future: particularly in manufacturing and engineering; the completion of a 45,000-square-foot R&D rapid • Our objective in Machine Clothing is stable adjusted prototyping facility; and the further advancement EBITDA, year over year; our strategy combines (a) and expansion of the portfolio of new business a continued focus on and investment in differentiating opportunities beyond the four parts currently being ourselves through superior products and field developed for the LEAP fan module. The most service with the leading papermakers in the growing promising of these opportunities are several potential product segments and regions around the world, additional parts for subsequent versions of the LEAP and (b) continued efforts to match capacity to engine, extrapolations of the LEAP fan module to demand around the world and to steadily and larger and smaller engine configurations, the ceramic incrementally enhance productivity. matrix composite engine exhaust nozzle for Boeing, and a number of other airframe applications. • Our objective in AEC is to establish Albany as the leading Tier 2 supplier of highly engineered composites to the aerospace industry, and to realize its growth potential of $300 million to 4 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden listens as Albany President & CEO Joe Morone explains the benefits of the company’s composite technology. Also pictured (left to right) are AEC Senior Vice President Brian Coffenberry, former New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, Great Bay Community College President Will Arvelo, and Safran Group Chairman & CEO Jean-Paul Herteman. $500 million in revenue by 2020; our strategy is equally intense process of preparing for a ramp to (a) continue to build the organization, talent, up of a new technology at a pace and scale never systems, and processes required to ramp up experienced in the history of commercial aviation. production of parts for the LEAP engine on time, During 2012, we managed to meet both challenges, with high yield and healthy margins, and (b) while further strengthening our balance sheet. I am continue to expand the pipeline of growth hopeful that we will continue to do so in the months opportunities beyond the first wave of parts and years ahead. for the LEAP engine. My optimism is grounded in a simple reality, which • In pursuing these two sets of objectives, we was in full view in 2012: This Company comprises intend to utilize our strong balance sheet and an outstanding group of professionals. To my 4,000 cash flow to take full advantage of the organic colleagues around the world, many of whom are growth opportunities in AEC, sustain our global themselves shareholders, thank you for your fine product leadership in Machine Clothing, and efforts, year in and year out, on behalf of your continue to return capital to our shareholders fellow shareholders. in the form of incrementally growing dividends. Each of our two businesses faces its own unique set of challenges and risks; for the one, it is the never-ending journey of extending market leader- Joseph G.
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