Relentless Innovation.® Sustainable Growth
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ACCELERATING RELENTLESS INNOVATION.® SUSTAINABLE GROWTH. ATI ANNUAL REPORT 2018 ANNUAL ATI 2018 Our Vision Building the World’s Best Specialty Materials and Components Company Our Commitment Creating Long-Term Value Through Relentless Innovation® Our Core Values Integrity: The cornerstone of our business relationships. We do what we say we will, and we do things the right way. Safety & Sustainability: We conduct our business committed to the safety of our people, our products, and the communities in which we operate. Accountability: We take responsibility and hold ourselves accountable for our actions, performance and results. Teamwork and Respect: We work together for ATI’s long-term success. We welcome and respect others’ views, capabilities and experiences. Innovation: We drive substantial value and meet our commitments through continuous transformation. FINANCIAL OVERVIEW 1 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO 2 ATI MARKETS & PRODUCTS 5 SEGMENT INFORMATION 5 CORPORATE SELF-GOVERNANCE 6 MANAGEMENT TEAM 7 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 8 ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K F-1 NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES 9 INVESTOR INFORMATION 10 2O18 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW In millions, except per share amounts 2016 2017 2018 Sales $ 3,135 $ 3,525 $ 4,046 Gross profit $ 223 $ 497 $ 630 Restructuring and impairment charges $ 527 $ 114 $ — Operating income (loss) $ (542) $ 135 $ 362 Results attributable to ATI: Net income (loss) $ (641) $ (92) $ 222 Per Common Share $ (5.97) $ (0.83) $ 1.61 Adjusted results: Net income (loss) attributable to ATI, as adjusted (a) $ (97) $ 55 $ 208 Adjusted results per common share (a) $ (0.91) $ 0.48 $ 1.51 BUSINESS SEGMENT RESULTS 2016 2017 2018 High Performance Materials & Components (HPMC) Sales $ 1,931 $ 2,067 $2,334 Segment operating profit $ 169 $ 246 $ 335 As percentage of segment sales 8.7% 11.9% 14.4% 2018 HPMC by quarter Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 561 $ 592 $ 585 $ 596 Segment operating profit $ 85 $ 98 $ 76 $ 76 As percentage of segment sales 15.2% 16.5% 13.0% 12.7% 2016 2017 2018 Flat Rolled Products (FRP) Sales $ 1,204 $ 1,458 $ 1,712 Segment operating profit (loss) $ (163) $ 37 $ 78 As percentage of segment sales (13.5)% 2.5% 4.5% 2018 FRP by quarter Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 418 $ 417 $ 435 $ 442 Segment operating profit $ 11 $ 26 $ 30 $ 11 As percentage of segment sales 2.6% 6.3% 6.8% 2.6% (a) Please see Page 9 for a reconciliation of adjusted results with the financial results prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. FINANCIAL OVERVIEW | ATI | 2O18 1 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS, CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES I am honored and humbled to lead ATI as we write its our people are unlocking these improvements through their next chapter, building on the strategy we have in place to Relentless Innovation®… and we are developing the generation accelerate how we create value for our shareholders. We are of future leaders to continue growing our business. doing that by engaging with our customers to solve their most High Performance Materials and Components: difficult challenges through our unique expertise and capability Jet Engines Power Strong Performance in materials science. Our materials enable our customers — The foremost mission of our HPMC segment is to flawlessly and in some cases our customers’ customers — to do amazing execute on the aerospace ramp, where we’ve earned a strong things, from operating jet engines at 2800o F to equipping our market position on next-generation engines. We strive to nation's defense to safely and efficiently transporting highly be a flawless performer, earning the first call when there are corrosive liquids and exhaust streams to enabling life-changing opportunities to expand our share. medical insights. Segment revenues grew by 13 percent versus 2017, led by a Our integrated supply chain allows us to be a one-stop shop for 20 percent increase in commercial jet engine product sales those customers. With 85 percent of High Performance Materials in 2018, on top of 2017’s 11 percent commercial jet engine and Components’ (HPMC) segment sales and 45 percent of Flat growth. Year-over-year segment operating profit growth of Rolled Products’ (FRP) segment sales to common end markets 36 percent outpaced revenue growth and was driven by ongoing where materials science matters, we understand how to meet improvements in product mix related to higher next-generation our customers’ critical needs across a wide range of materials jet engine product sales and increased asset utilization to solutions. For example, a titanium slab that starts its life in support our customers’ elevated demand levels. Between 2018 HPMC’s electron beam melt shop may then gain extraordinary and 2022, we expect next-generation engines to drive our jet strength through rolling at one of the world’s most powerful engine sales at approximately twice the market levels. mills, FRP’s Hot-Rolling and Processing Facility (HRPF), and then be finished for delivery to the aerospace or defense markets. The characteristics that are required to be successful in the jet At each step in our highly efficient production flow-path, our engine market--the quality, delivery, service and cost to be a materials gain value leading to satisfying our customers’ exacting successful qualified supplier, and technical infrastructure in terms specifications. of people and R&D capability — help to extend our strengths to other markets. Our capacity and capability 2018 was a strong year for ATI, as we executed our strategy to investments for jet engines also support drive continued growth, operational excellence, and financial airframe and our non-aerospace markets improvement. Sales were $4.0 billion, up 15% versus the prior including defense, space, medical and year and our highest revenue since 2014. Segment operating electrical energy. We seek markets profit was $413 million, up 46 percent versus 2017. Both that are driven by highly demanding, business segments achieved double-digit growth in sales to specialized applications. the aerospace and defense markets — which account for nearly 50 percent of ATI sales — and revenues grew in nearly all of our We’re investing in our future and are well major markets, a testament to our ability to meet customers’ into a three-year $95 million expansion increasing demand for ATI’s unique design and production of our iso-thermal forging and capabilities. We are well-positioned in growing end markets: heat-treating capacities to more than 80% of our revenue comes from five key end markets, satisfy growing demand. all of which are growing faster than historic averages. This increases our capacity to produce technologically As we look toward the future, we know there’s opportunity advanced powder-to- to become even stronger. We are accelerating our efforts to iso-thermally forged jet simplify, standardize and digitize to drive improvements in productivity across our operations. The faster we can flow Robert S. Wetherbee material across ATI, with less inventory, and less metal volatility President and Chief exposure, the greater the value to our entire system. Every day, Executive Officer 2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO | ATI | 2018 engine components. This will be ATI’s fourth iso-thermal press for products for the oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and and is located at our Iso-thermal Forging Center of Excellence in electrical energy markets. Our agreement to provide carbon Cudahy, Wisconsin. steel hot-rolling conversion services for NLMK USA, announced Our acquisition of the assets of metal alloy-based additive in October 2018, provides ATI with fee-per-ton volumes and manufacturing leader Addaero Manufacturing is a natural will significantly increase the asset utilization at our world-class extension of ATI’s metallic powder expertise and will expand HRPF. This incremental volume benefits all HRPF-produced our capabilities to provide comprehensive customer solutions products and our goal is to optimize utilization levels. That ranging from the design of parts for additive manufacturing to doesn’t mean we’re exiting the commodity stainless product the production of ready-to-install components. At the same time, line — its baseload contributes positively to our overall cost we’re also expanding the grades of powders we produce. structure. Flat Rolled Products: Increased Value, Utilization Our A&T Stainless 50-50 joint venture formalized in March 2018 allowed us to reenter the 60-wide stainless business, We are committed to building and maintaining a sustainably which is approaching 40 percent of the U.S. flat rolled sheet profitable FRP segment. market, in the most capital-efficient manner, delivering a highly We continue to make progress toward our goal of increasing asset cost-competitive flow path. The JV combines our partner’s utilization in a capital-efficient manner. In clear demonstration unparalleled Indonesian mining, refining, and castings assets, of the value of our product mix improvements and business with ATI’s innovative, low-cost HRPF, and operates a highly transformation efforts, segment operating profit more than efficient Direct Roll Anneal and Pickle (DRAP) finishing facility in doubled over the prior year: a full-year margin increase of 200 Midland, Pennsylvania to provide value-add processing services basis points. The key driver behind this performance was the for the JV’s finished products. The quick slab-to-coil production benefit from increased volumes in our high-value nickel, titanium cycle time, coupling the power of the HRPF with the DRAP and Precision Rolled Strip™ product lines, with nearly two-thirds of finishing line, is a game-changer for our industry. our segment revenues coming from these specialty grades. On behalf of A&T Stainless, we filed for an exclusion from Section Our HRPF is enabling new products that deliver materials that 232 tariffs that subject the JV’s import of semi-finished stainless maintain high-strength at high temperatures and exceptional slab products from Indonesia to the tariffs levied on all stainless corrosion resistance as we expand our portfolio, leveraging steel products imported into the United States.