Todd Gleason
Analyst · Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Your line is open.
Yeah. Look, it's -- energy writ large is, has some cyclicality to it. There is -- things get going really fast for a three, six, nine month period and then they do slow down. LNG is an example of that where there is still good investment, but it does ebb and flow quite a bit. There is going to consistently be those things. We believe that the key for us is to continue to just diversify and control a little bit more of our destiny with respect to that aftermarket that Peter mentioned. So, us adding our largest aftermarket order in the third quarter of last year of $9 million, which is a two-year order, so it'll turn to $4.5 million of revenue, obviously, give or take each of those two years, that's a -- we believe that is a multi-decade renewed aftermarket order. So, we continue to just move into those spaces and where we -- the acquisition of Transcend, we believe, also gives us a lot more consistent aftermarket application with respect to separation media. And so, again, it's really just continuing to diversify. We have done a really nice job of moving into areas like carbon capture and other, we would say, sort of newer investments in energy infrastructure and energy solutions. So -- and frankly, our teams continue to do a great job of positioning for what we think are some continued themes that we serve from our energy businesses but are maybe even outside of the traditional energy like as we provide solutions for naval destroyers with respect to separation and filtration on air intake and other solutions for their turbine-powered propulsion. And there is also areas like nuclear that are starting to see a little bit more investment, and that could have a very positive impact on 2024 and 2025. So again, our key theme, and we're just probably a -- like a broken record for us, is diversification globally, diversification across end markets, we're just far less reliant on two or three or four themes like we were three or four years ago, where we would say, just you wait for refining to come back and our fluid bed cyclone business will bounce back. That's been steady or when we used to say, just you wait for the power gen market to come back and our emissions will come back, that's been steady or we would say just you wait for natural gas infrastructure, and that has been steady. So, we like steady and we still like legacy energy, but now we're just so much more diverse across that energy to go after the new sort of global emerging themes that we believe that there's still a lot of growth.