
利得丁晴手套專利案‧美上訴庭維持原判
• 大馬財經
2010-01-01 11:51
(吉隆坡)利得股份(LATEXX,7064,主板工業產品組)宣佈,美國上訴庭維持Tillotson公司丁晴手套專利無效的判決。
這間公司文告說,美國國際貿易委員會已於12月24日,停止調查這間公司被指在丁晴手套侵犯專利權的指控。
美國聯邦巡迴法院(Federal Circuit)之前裁決,美國公司Tillotson公司指利得股份侵犯其丁晴手套專利權(專利號碼35616)的說法不能成立。美國上訴庭也維持Tillotson公司丁晴手套專利無效的判決。
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拜流感所賜 膠手套需求料續強勁
(吉隆坡2日訊)由於美元走強和歐美需求量持續成長,在09年1月至3月,大馬膠手套的出口達到17億令吉,按年增長12.4%,分析員認為膠手套的需求將繼續強勁,主要因為擔憂A(H1N1)型流感再爆發,料增加膠手套的需求。
在大馬膠手套的出口方面,美國成為最大的單一買家,佔了總膠手套出口的39.3%。
拉昔胡申研究分析員預測,流感或許在將來繼續爆發,成為了膠手套需求量的催化劑,因為膠手套是醫療領域最基本和最能負荷的病菌隔離工具。
「再加上印度和中國對衛生標準要求加倍關注,更是刺激了醫療手套未來的需求量。」
正當需求量日益增加,分析員也指出,乳膠價格飆升,成為膠手套發展的負面因素。
無論如何,基於多數膠手套業者實行有效的價格體制,那就是以前一個月的乳膠平均價格,為這個月的手套售價定價,讓分析員相信膠手套業者可以在最短的時間內,將費用轉嫁至消費者身上。
美元波動影響不大
「至於美元兌令吉的波動,過去的趨勢顯示業者有能力在1至2個月後調整售價。任何延遲轉嫁的費用,將帶來負面影響,但是並不顯著。」
分析員維持該領域「增持」評級,並給予頂級手套(TOPGLOV,7113,主板工業股)、高產尼品(KOSSAN,7153,主板工業股)和穩大有限公司(ADVENTA,7191,主板工業股)「超越大市」評級;卻將立佳手套(HARTA,5168,主板工業股)的評級降至「與大市同步」。
另一方面,僑豐投行分析員也選出了3大心頭好手套公司,分別是頂級手套、高產尼品和速伯瑪。
該分析員表示,他喜歡頂級手套是因為該公司在全球的手套市場有著領先的地位,佔了22%的市場比重。
「至於速伯瑪,該公司目前正積極地擴充其產量,希望在2011年之前可將產量擴大額外的50%。」他也補充說,目前上述2家公司都將發展目標放在發展中國家,因為該些國家對手套的需求量將是未來5年最強勁的。
「總結來說,我相信上述3家公司的成長仍然是良好的,因為未來12個月的需求量是穩定的。」
有鑑於此,該分析員也給予膠手套領域「增持」評級。
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Supermax Corporation
Target RM5.30
Previous RM4.68
Price RM3.60
Supermax shed more light on the glove industry outlook and its earnings going forward. We gather that demand still outpaces supply, mainly due to the lack of new capacity since mid-2008. Supermax has started on a capacity expansion programme that will ramp up total annual capacity to 21.7bn pieces by 2010 from 14.5bn pieces currently. Management has also guided for more dividends in tandem with its fine performance. We have upgraded our FY10 earnings by another 13% in line with guidance and hence raise our target price to RM5.30 (previously RM4.68).
Global demand growing by about 10bn pieces a year. According to Supermax’s management, global rubber glove demand for 2009 is at 135bn pieces p.a. (Top Glove has estimated 140bn pieces p.a.) and should increase by 10bn pieces a year. On top of this, the H1N1 pandemic is also envisaged to boost demand by another 8bn pieces p.a., which brings total demand to more than 150bn pieces of gloves by 2010. With glove makers holding back on capacity expansion from mid-2008 to mid-2009 owing to uncertainties over
the health of the global economy, the industry believes the new capacity in the global market was less than 5bn pieces p.a, which gives rise to the current global scarcity of rubber gloves. In the shorter term, most rubber glove manufacturers also expect the shortfall in rubber glove supply to prolong as the industry has not obtained new natural gas supply. Hence, any expansion would mostly be limited to the scrapping of old production lines and adding new lines to their existing facilities to utilize the available natural gas. Also, we understand that a biomass boiler – should glove makers opt to use one – would take about 12-15 months to be ready for use.
Capacity expansion in motion. Currently, Supermax’s total annual capacity is at 14.5bn pieces p.a, which management expects to increase by 3.1bn and 4.1bn pieces p.a. by 2009 and 2010 through organic growth. Total annual capacity will hit 21.7bn pieces by end-2010.
Ready for production cost increase in the future. Latex price has been on a rising trend in tandem with the rise in crude oil price. Apart from passing on the cost increase to its customers, we believe Supermax is prepared for higher latex prices as the company’s efforts to enhance production efficiency is bearing fruit, whereby: 1) natural gas cost has been cut by 4% YTD, and 2) electricity cost is down 6.4% YTD, even as output has climbed
12% from 10.8bn pieces in FY08 to 12.1bn pieces in FY09.
Analyst: Jason Yap
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