June 9, 2016, Elekta -- At a Capital Markets Day in Stockholm, Elekta presented how it will scale its businesses and capitalize on innovation leadership. The ongoing transformation of the Company continues to be on track, senior leaders said.


Elekta’s new President and CEO from June 10, Richard Hausmann, introduced himself and said that he was “very much looking forward to leading this innovative company through the transformation and beyond.” He expressed his strong belief in the MR-linac project, which he called “impressive and very well engineered.”


Tomas Puusepp, President and CEO until June 9, stated how the first year of Elekta’s transformation program has strengthened the company’s competitiveness: “We are quickly becoming a leaner company with an improved financial performance and a clear focus on high growth areas: service, software and image guided radiation therapy.”

Ian Alexander, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), spoke of the potential made possible by scaling Elekta’s service business: offering stable recurring revenues at limited capital investment and improved profitability. “Service continues to offer good growth potential in many markets, including mature markets. In emerging markets, the service share of total revenues is about 15 percent. Our ambition is to grasp these opportunities as part of Elekta’s transformational process.”

Håkan Bergström, Chief Financial Officer, stated that the transformation process is on track. He reconfirmed the target to reach an EBITA margin of 20 percent by fiscal year 2017/18. Cost reductions of SEK 700* million, with full effect in fiscal year 2017/18, are expected to be met as planned. Net working capital to sales ratio is already below the five percent target. For the first half of fiscal year 2016/17, the company expects a one-off negative revenue effect of SEK 500 million due to the change to producing to order, and therefore a weak result for the first half of the year.

Elekta’s recently appointed Chief Technology Officer, John Lapré, focused on capitalizing on the company’s innovation leadership, while setting the strategic portfolio priorities and driving customer satisfaction. “Already today, Elekta offers the most precise solutions in our industry, which is essential to achieving good patient outcome when treating cancer. With MR-linac, the precision will be significantly enhanced, enabling the start of a new era of treating cancer. This research project, developed with a consortium and other partners, is on track for commercial launch in 2017.”

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