Investment Highlights

• Manufacturer of transport and infrastructure equipment for underground mining (main product: monorail/single-rail monorail system) and for tunnel construction sites
• Niche world market leader and technology leader: High market shares in all target markets,
  34 % of the monorails installed worldwide are from SMT Scharf
• Main product group is rail-bound monorail systems; used primarily in underground coal and ore mines for transporting materials and personnel with payloads of up to 48 t and inclines of up to 35 degrees
• Strong position in emerging markets such as China, Russia and South Africa
• Stable business in the cyclical mining market due to 50 % service share of total sales
• Globally active specialist company with more than 75 years of experience
• Sustainable financing structure thanks to low debt and an equity ratio of over 60 %
• Strong medium-term growth potential (especially in a positive mining cycle)
• Localization strategy: competence expansion in target markets

SMT Scharf AG continues to consistently pursue sustainable corporate governance. With this Sustainability Statement 2024, we are taking an important step in the further development of our reporting: for the first time, we have based the preparation of the report on the requirements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) in order to prepare for the new legal requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). As a continuation of our previous sustainability reports, it underscores our ongoing commitment to transparent, comprehensible and comparable communication. Even though it is currently still unclear whether our company will formally fall under the reporting requirement under the CSRD in the future and the national implementation of the directive is still pending, we have decided to act early and proactively.

Changes being reserved.