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Plexus still in pain

Life remains tough for Plexus, but the wellhead engineer expects orders to recover in the next financial year
March 30, 2017

Since we last covered Plexus Holdings (POS), there has been good news and bad. The oil and gas engineer received a vote of confidence in its POS-GRIP wellhead technology from Nexen, a subsidiary of China's state oil company, CNOOC, which placed a new well order. Unfortunately, that contract is unlikely to be recognised until after the current financial year, interim figures for which were predictably dire.

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The one salvo was the £10.1m in net cash left on the balance sheet at the end of December. This, together with a £5m revolving credit facility with Bank of Scotland, leaves the group "well placed to see out the current downturn".