Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Continued
OVERVIEW
During the three-month period ended June 30, 2023, significant factors that impacted our results of operations were the:
| ● | Significant improvement in gross margin at both Hy-Tech and Florida Pneumatic. |
| ● | Decline in Florida Pneumatic’s Retail revenue. |
OUR BUSINESS
Florida Pneumatic
Florida Pneumatic directly, and through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Exhaust Technologies Inc. (“ETI”), Universal Air Tool Company Limited (“UAT”), and Jiffy Air Tool, Inc. (“Jiffy”) imports, manufactures, and markets pneumatic hand tools and related products of its own design, primarily to the retail, industrial, automotive, and aerospace markets. Its products include sanders, grinders, drills, saws, and impact wrenches. These tools are similar in appearance and function to electric hand tools, but are powered by compressed air, rather than by electricity or a battery. Air tools, as they are more commonly referred to, generally offer better performance, and weigh less than their electrical counterparts. Florida Pneumatic imports and/or manufactures approximately 75 types of pneumatic hand tools, most of which are sold at prices ranging from $50 to $1,000, under the names “Florida Pneumatic,” “Universal Tool”, “Jiffy Air Tool”, AIRCAT, NITROCAT, as well as under the trade names or trademarks of several private label customers. These products are sold to retailers, distributors, manufacturers and private label customers through in-house sales personnel and manufacturers’ representatives. The AIRCAT and NITROCAT brands of pneumatic tools are sold primarily to the automotive service and repair market (“automotive market”). Users of Florida Pneumatic’s hand tools include industrial maintenance and production personnel, do-it-yourself mechanics, professional automobile mechanics and auto body personnel. Jiffy manufactures and distributes pneumatic tools and components primarily to aerospace manufacturers.
Hy-Tech
Hy-Tech designs, manufactures, and markets industrial tools, systems, gearing, accessories and a wide variety of replacement parts under various brands including ATP, NUMATX, and Thaxton. Hy-Tech produces and sells heavy-duty pneumatic impact tools, grinders, air motors, hydro-pneumatic riveters, hydrostatic test plugs, impact sockets and custom gears, with prices ranging from $300 to $62,000.
Hy-Tech’s “Engineered Solutions” products are sold directly to Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEM”), and industrial branded products are sold through a broad network of specialized industrial distributors serving the power generation, petrochemical, aerospace, construction, railroad, mining, ship building and fabricated metals industries. Hy-Tech works directly with its industrial customers, designing and manufacturing products from finished components to complete turnkey systems to be sold under their own brand names.
Hy-Tech’s Power Transmission Group, or PTG, is a custom gear, gearbox and power transmission system manufacturer located in Punxsutawney, PA. In addition to manufacturing a broad range of standard and custom gears for manufacturers in a wide variety of industries, PTG reverse engineers existing gears as well as designs new gears, utilizing state-of-the-art technologies, including 3D imaging and Gleason Gear modeling software.
Effective January 15, 2022, through a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hy-Tech, we acquired substantially all the non-real estate assets comprising the business of Jackson Gear Company (“JGC”), a Pennsylvania-based corporation that manufactures and distributes custom gears and power transmission gear products. This business was consolidated into PTG and provides added market exposure into the larger gears market.