Barnes Group Inc. (NYSE:B) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

Julie Streich: Yes. And just to build on what Tom said, from a finer point, in addition to the proactive productivity we’re getting throughout the commercial dialogues, expected improvements in productivity as our labor force in certain facilities comes up to speed, will have the natural benefit of absorption of overhead via enhanced productivity via enhanced production output, which also helps on that front.

Myles Walton: Okay. Alright, well thanks so much.

Operator: We will take our next question from Michael Ciarmoli with Truist Securities. Your line is open.

Michael Ciarmoli: Hey good morning guys. Thanks for taking the question. Maybe Julie, just to put a finer point on Matt’s question on the run rate savings. Just I guess for modeling purposes this year, $43 million run rate on top of — I guess, looking into next year, and kind of the trajectory of margins and assuming you’re capturing some of that savings this year, but I mean it seems like there’s going to be a pretty big step-up in margins, just with that kind of savings, not even accounting for maybe incremental volumes in Aerospace. But is that how we should be kind of looking at this kind of maybe some significant margin expansion as we move into next year?

Thomas Hook: It’s project-based, Michael, is if we step back and think of the phases we’ve announced Phase 1 and 2 and 3 in that we’ve communicated pretty large-scale products. Closure of facilities we’ve had globally in Barnes Industrial that are in a way in reaching your completion in 2023. So as we exit 2023, we’ll be getting more of a full year effect of those savings facilities we had in Switzerland facilities, we had Sterling, Virginia, Bristol, Connecticut, as well as in Germany or [indiscernible] operations. Each one of those will end up coming to completion and drive savings on a full year basis as we get into 2024. And I’ll let kind of Julie kind of go down a little bit more detail on the timing effects of those.

But a lot of the savings are driving 2024 products that are being executed to 2022, and 2023. We’re just getting full years effects of the savings to drive the margin effects. Of course, as you know, there’s projects that are starting execution in 2023, they’ve been executing in 2024 for savings in 2025, but is — Julie can give you a little bit more and quantitative feel on how that looks as the quarters progress.

Julie Streich: So I think, Mike, from a modeling perspective, it’s fair coming out of 2023 to model in that $22-ish million number that I mentioned earlier. And then throughout 2024, we would ramp to exit the year, so enter 2025 with the $43 million and then ramp up to the $53 million in 2025. We are not giving quarterly estimates for 2024 yet for obvious reasons. But to date, things have been tracking as we mentioned. And we’ve all heard about or been involved in these projects before, but they’re being managed effectively and we intend to keep total transparency about how they’re progressing. So at this point in time, as Tom mentioned, things are progressing to plan. And you should be okay modeling those effects in.

Michael Ciarmoli: Okay. And then just back to Aerospace. What — I guess we’ve been sort of in recovery mode here. There have been bottlenecks around engines presumably your volumes have been elevated. Did anything sort of happen recently for this to manifest now with the labor and productivity? And then we’ve heard recently from Boeing and Airbus, where they want to take rates. I mean do you have the labor in place to keep up with the OEM production and presumably a strong aftermarket as well?