Cnel30 Jun 2017 12:12
For the year ended 31 December 2016, the Group's total revenue was RMB78.6 million (c. £9.2million), an increase of 27.4% from RMB 61.7 million (c. £6.4million).
We are pleased to report that CNE has returned to profitability and that the business outlook is for continued and sustained growth.
The return to profitability is a direct result of our decision to diversify into new technologies and markets such as our contract with BioNeutra North America Inc for a isomaltooligosaccharide production line (RMB 11.2m), and contracts in China with existing customers such as the anhydrous ethanol EPC contract with Jilin Buoda alcohol group (RMB17 million), the implementation of our Shandong Hongda super grade alcohol project (RMB10.7) and several other small and medium-sized projects.
The gross profit for the year was RMB27 million (c. £3.2 million) up 252% from a gross profit of RMB7.7 million (c. £0.8 million).
For the year 2016, the company recorded a profit of RMB 3.6million (c. £0.4 million) reversing the previous net loss of RMB25.6 million (c. £2.7 million).
Sales Pipeline
We enter 2017 with a strong order book of RMB 292.7 million (c. £26.6 million) which we attribute to the implementation of a strategy to focus on international markets, the diversification of our products, and to renewed growth in the Chinese market that is driven by China's revised ethanol policy. The latter is the consequence of a relaxation of Chinese legislation to restrict the use of corn as a feedstock for ethanol production, which had been in place since 2006, and the resultant increase in corn-based ethanol projects in northern China. Notable contracts include: