Montreal-based metal powder producer and plasma torch specialistPyroGenesis预测，在第4季度的2020年第4季度财务业绩中，其年收入将大幅增长。
在截至2020年12月31日的三个月中，该公司预计将产生3-500万美元的收入，增长了180％至367％，而2019年第四季度报告的107万美元。
热原的强烈财务预测紧随其后application to be listed on the NASDAQexchange, and the firm’s CEO P. Peter Pascali said at the time that the company is beginning to enter “a heightened growth phase.”
尽管该公司的纳斯达克请求正在处理，但其股份仍仅在多伦多证券交易所（TSX）上列出，自从其初步结果发布以来，它们的股份已上涨了7％，从3.57美元（CAD）到3.81美元（CAD）（CAD）。
The Q4 and FY 2020 guidance
Based on its preliminary financial data, PyroGenesis anticipates that over the course of FY 2020, it has generated total revenue of between $14 million and $16 million. This figure represents an increase of 192% to 233% over the $4.8 million in revenue reported during Q4 2019, and its shareholders will now receive minor dividends.
In terms of Earnings Per Share (EPS), the company expects its Q4 2020 figure to be in the range of $0.10 – $0.12, and it’s FY 2020 result to be between $0.22 and $0.24. Compared to the losses of $0.04 reported in Q4 2019 and $0.07 in FY 2019, these numbers represent a turnaround for PyroGenesis during a challenging year.
当然，这些数字仍然受到关闭调整的约束，因此该公司尚未完成详细的审核，因此，目前很难确定公司收入增长的因素或评估其盈利能力。
但是，根据Pyrogenesation的IR-Comms和战略BD Rodayna Kafal的说法，该公司现在寻求通过“吸引机构和散户投资者”来推动进一步的增长。预计该公司在纳斯达克股票上的上市也已开始通过NCIB计划回购股票，这意味着它预计其估值会有所提高。
| Q4 2019 | 指南2020 | FY 2019 | Guidance FY 2020 | |
| Revenue | 107万美元 | $3-5m | $4.8m | $ 14- $ 1600万美元 |
| EPS Basic | （$ 0.04） | $0.10-$0.12 | ($0.07) | $ 0.22- $ 0.24 |
Within the buyback scheme, PyroGenesis will be able to purchase up to 5 million of its shares over 12 months, although it won’t necessarily buy them all, as was the case last October when it purchased just 1.3 million shares in a similar program.
该公司董事会在与NCIB一起发表的声明中说：“公司普通股的市场价格可能会不时反映出公司的基本价值，特别是其增长机会。”
他们补充说：“拟议购买其普通股符合公司的最大利益，代表了适当使用公司资金。”“预计公司进行的任何购买也可以提高其股东的价值和流动性。”
PyroGenesis’ 3D printing technology
Established in 1991, PyroGenesis uses itspatented Plasma Atomization Processfor both the disposing of industrial waste and creating fine metal powders for 3D printing. The company has been steadily ramping up the R&D spending on its plasma process in recent years, and this has yielded a number of technical developments.
PyroGenesis managed toeliminate tungsten contamination从2018年3月的3D打印粉末开始，随后推出NexGen Plasma Atomization System。这台新机器能产生金属powders at a rate of over 25kg/h, something the firm views as critical to itsindustrialization plan。
In the long-term, Pyrogenesis seeks to achieve ‘round-the-clock’ production, but it has already received several sizable contracts in the last two years. In 2018, the firmreceived orders worth $32 million， 包括其专业粉末的首次政府发货, and an MoU with metal processing firmAlbert & Duval。
此外，在其最新的全第3季度2020年财务上，Pyrogenesis报告了3640万美元的订单积压，该订单纳入了1,150万美元美国海军deal, and a contract worth over $20 million fromDrosrite International。Halfway through 2019, PyroGenesis alsoraised $3 millionthrough non-brokered private placement financing, to fund its continued expansion.
等离子体雾化竞争
等离子体雾化产生具有均匀粒径的材料，使其非常适合3D打印，并且少数加拿大公司使用与热原相似的技术来创建竞争对手的加法制造粉末。
AP&C, the metal 3D printing powder production arm ofGE添加剂, also uses plasma atomization to produce专有金属粉。The process is well-suited to creating additive manufacturing materials, but it can also be deployed in the production of coating, injection molding and pressing powders.
Teknais another one of the very few companies that produce3D printing powders via gas plasma atomization。该公司与钢铁专家签署了谅解备忘录Aperamin 2018, through which it agreed to co-develop a spherical metal powdered feedstock for use within the additive manufacturing industry.
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Featured image shows inside the crucible of PyroGenesis’ plasma atomization process for metal powders. Photo via PyroGenesis.
