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Bolt-ons deliver 11% revenue growth for Imerys

2015· article· en· W2883709555 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Laura Syrett

Bibliographic record

VenueIndustrial Minerals · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicGlobal Energy Security and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRevenueLiberian dollarEarningsQuarter (Canadian coin)BusinessMonetary economicsEconomyFinanceEconomicsGeographyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Imerys attributed the current, inclusive revenue increase partly to group structure effect, referring to the integration since 1 March 2015 of Greek miner S&B and bolt-on acquisitions in monolithic refractories and carbonates, which it said added around EUR 238.3m to its sales. A positive exchange rate effect of EUR 188.1m, related to the decline of the euro against the US dollar in particular, also boosted revenue. The performances achieved to the end of September show that external growth is earnings-enhancing and that S&B's integration has started to deliver the expected synergies, [Gilles Michel] said. Revenue for Imerys' energy solutions and specialities segment, which includes its proppants business, dropped by 6% on a like-for-like basis so far this year to EUR 950.2m, from EUR 963.1m last year. For Q3, the decline was even sharper, at 9.7%, to EUR 314.1m from EUR 338.9m a year ago. High resistance materials, which covers products Imerys sells mainly into steel, glass, foundry and aluminium markets, recorded a 7.2% drop in like-for-like revenue and a 0.6% rise in current revenue for the first three quarters of 2015 to EUR 486.2m, from EUR 483.1m last year. Third quarter revenue fell 3.4% like-for-like but increased 1.1% on a current basis to EUR 156m from EUR 154.2m a year ago.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.046
Threshold uncertainty score0.155

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0060.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0460.064

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.137
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.166 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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