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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022

or
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


Commission file number 001-34362
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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

New York 16-0547600
(State of Incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

205 Crosspoint Parkway
Buffalo, New York 14068
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(716) 689-5400
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
_________________

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per shareCMCONasdaq Global Select Market

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.   Yes     No    
 
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act.   Yes     No  
 
Indicate by checkmark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes   No
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes   No
 
Indicate by checkmark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See definition of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
   
Accelerated filerNon-accelerated filerSmaller reporting companyEmerging Growth Company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o   
     
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).        Yes    No
 
The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant as of September 30, 2021 (the second fiscal quarter in which this Form 10-K relates) was approximately $1.4 billion, based upon the closing price of the Company’s common shares as quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Market on such date. The number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding as of May 23, 2022 was 28,550,590 shares.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the Registrant’s proxy statement for its 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") pursuant to Regulation 14A not later than 120 days after the end of the Registrant’s fiscal year ended March 31, 2022 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report.


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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION
 
2022 Annual Report on Form 10-K
 
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by such statements, including general economic and business conditions, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, conditions affecting the industries served by us and our subsidiaries, conditions affecting our customers and suppliers, competitor responses to our products and services, the overall market acceptance of such products and services, the integration of acquisitions and other factors set forth herein under “Risk Factors” and our other publicly available SEC filings. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary factors and to others contained throughout this report. Some of these statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “will,” “may,” “should,” “plan,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “future” and other similar expressions to identify forward looking statements. These forward looking statements speak only as of their respective dates and are based on our current expectations. Except as required by applicable law, we do not undertake and specifically decline any obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect any future events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated changes. Actual events or our actual operating results could differ materially from those predicted, anticipated, or implied in these forward-looking statements, and any other events anticipated in the forward-looking statements may not actually occur.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I 
    
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PART I

Item 1.        Business
 
General

Columbus McKinnon Corporation ("Columbus McKinnon" or the "Company") is a leading worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions that move the world forward and improve lives by efficiently and ergonomically moving, lifting, positioning and securing materials. Key products include hoists, crane components, precision conveyor systems, rigging tools, light rail workstations and digital power and motion control systems. These are highly relevant, professional-grade solutions that solve customers’ critical material handling requirements.

The Company is focused on commercial and industrial applications that require the safety, reliability and quality provided by its superior design and engineering know-how. Our products are used for mission critical applications where we have established, trusted brands with significant customer retention. Our targeted market verticals include general industries, transportation, energy and utilities, process industries, industrial automation, construction and infrastructure, food and beverage, entertainment, life sciences, consumer packaged goods and e-commerce/supply chain/warehousing.

On April 7, 2021, the Company completed its acquisition of Dorner Mfg. Corp. ("Dorner"). Dorner, headquartered in Hartland, Wisconsin, is a leading automation solutions company providing unique, patented technologies in the design, application, manufacturing and integration of high-precision conveying systems. The acquisition of Dorner accelerates the Company’s shift to intelligent motion and serves as a platform to expand capabilities in advanced, higher technology automation solutions. Dorner is a leading supplier to the stable life sciences, food processing, and consumer packaged goods markets as well as the high growth industrial automation and e-commerce sectors. The addition of Dorner provides attractive complementary adjacencies including sortation and asynchronous conveyance systems. Dorner offers a broad range of precision conveying systems to our product offerings, which include low profile, flexible chain, large scale, sanitary and vertical elevation conveyor systems, as well as pallet system conveyors.

In addition, on December 1, 2021, the Company completed its acquisition of Garvey Corporation ("Garvey"), which further expanded its precision conveyance offerings. Garvey is a leading accumulation systems solutions company providing unique, patented systems for the automation of production processes whose products complement those of Dorner. The acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey accelerate the Company’s shift to intelligent motion and serves as a platform to expand capabilities in advanced, higher technology automation solutions.

In the United States, we are the market leader for hoists, material handling digital power control systems and precision conveyors, our principal lines of products, and have strong market positions with certain chain, forged fittings, and actuator products. Additionally, in Europe, we believe we are the market leader for manual hoists and a market leader in the heavy load, rail and niche custom applications for actuation. We have achieved this leadership position through strategic acquisitions, our extensive, diverse, and well-established distribution channels and our commitment to product innovation and quality. We believe the substantial breadth of our product offering and broad distribution channels in the United States and Europe provide us a strategic advantage in our markets. The acquisition of STAHL CraneSystems ("STAHL") in fiscal 2017, which is well renowned for its custom engineering lifting solutions and hoisting technology, advanced our position as a global leader in the production of explosion-protected hoists. STAHL serves independent crane builders and Engineering Procurement and Construction ("EPC") firms, providing products to a variety of end markets including automotive, general manufacturing, oil and gas, steel and concrete, power generation, as well as process industries such as chemical and pharmaceuticals.

We initiated our Blueprint for Growth strategy in early fiscal 2018. It originally had three phases. In Phase 1, which was completed during fiscal 2018, we focused on instilling a performance-based culture to drive results, which included reorganizing the business into three product groups. Phase II, which began in the latter half of fiscal 2018, included simplifying the business with our 80/20 process, improving our operational excellence, and ramping the growth engine by investing in new product development and a digital platform to grow profitably. Through the simplification process, we identified three businesses in our portfolio that were not a fit with our product offerings and strategy that represented approximately $38 million in revenue in fiscal 2018. By the end of fiscal 2019, we divested these three businesses and completed the closure of one manufacturing facility in Ohio, which provided $2 million in cost savings in fiscal 2020. During fiscal 2020, the Company began to further reduce its manufacturing footprint by initiating the closure and consolidation of our remaining facility in Ohio into other U.S. facilities, which was completed in fiscal 2021. Similarly, one of our manufacturing facilities in China was closed during fiscal 2020 and its operations were consolidated into our other manufacturing facility in China. A small operation in France was closed during fiscal 2021. The annual savings from these factory consolidations is approximately $8.3 million. Simplification with the 80/20 process and other operational efficiencies implemented enabled the consolidations without reducing our ability to serve our customers and address demand. Phase III of the strategy was centered on evolving the business


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model including optimizing our current product portfolio as well as pursuing acquisitions to advance our transformation into a leading intelligent motion solutions company. The Dorner and Garvey transactions are examples of these types of acquisitions.

We have since evolved our Blueprint for Growth strategy to version 2.0 in order to accelerate our pivot to growth with an emphasis on broadening our expertise in intelligent motion solutions for material handling. Our Blueprint for Growth 2.0 strategy is focused on delivering above market growth through organic and inorganic initiatives as well as improved financial performance, which we believe drives shareholder value creation. The strategy is underpinned with the Columbus McKinnon Business System, ("CMBS") that provides the discipline, processes and core competencies necessary to scale our business. At the core of CMBS are our people and our values.

With CMBS as the foundation, we are well positioned to execute the Core Growth Framework of our Blueprint for Growth 2.0 strategy. The Framework defines four parallel paths for Columbus McKinnon’s growth and provides clear organic and strategic initiatives. Our Core Growth framework includes:

Strengthening the Core which is a foundational path focused on initiatives that will strengthen competencies and improve our competitive position within our existing share of our Serviceable Addressable Market (”SAM”). Initiatives include further developing commercial and product management competencies and improving our digital tools for a better, more efficient customer experience.

Growing the Core is a path that is focused on taking greater marker share, both organically and through acquisitions, within our SAM. We are making progress on this path with product localization, new product development and advancements in automation and aftermarket support for our distributors.

Expanding the Core is a path that is focused on improved channel access and geographic expansion. Here we expand beyond our SAM into the broader Total Addressable Market (“TAM”). This involves building out our presence both geographically and in new verticals with expanded offerings, which we expect we can accomplish organically as well as with acquisitions.

Reimagining the core is a more transformational path that rethinks our TAM and targets strategic expansion beyond our existing TAM. As we think more broadly about material handling and increasing trends in intelligent motion, not just lifting, but solutions for how materials move throughout customer environments, there are some compelling ideas that emerge. The Dorner and Garvey acquisitions are examples of reimagining Columbus McKinnon’s core, which added an additional $5 billion to our TAM, with the specialty conveying microsegment growing at an estimated 6% to 8% rate annually.

The strategy is geared toward investing in new products that solve our customers’ tough problems and expanding into new platforms that provide intelligent motion solutions for material handling, such as precision conveyance capabilities. We believe the acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey establish a platform for expansion supported by new product development, a fragmented competitive landscape and complementary adjacencies. It also allows Dorner and Garvey to expand geographically by having access to our global footprint and provides us with an entry point into a pipeline of additional acquisition opportunities in the fragmented precision conveying industry.

Our legacy Lifting business is cyclical in nature and sensitive to changes in general economic conditions, including changes in industrial capacity utilization, industrial production, and general economic activity indicators, like GDP growth. Both U.S. and Eurozone capacity utilization and the ISM Production Index are leading market indicators for our Company.

Business Description
 
We design, manufacture, and distribute a broad range of material handling products for various applications. Products include a wide variety of electric, air-powered, lever, and hand hoists, hoist trolleys, explosion-protected hoists, winches, and aluminum work stations; alloy and carbon steel chain; forged attachments, such as hooks, shackles, textile slings, clamps, and load binders; mechanical and electromechanical actuators and rotary unions; and below-the-hook special purpose lifters; power and motion control systems, such as AC and DC drive systems, radio remote controls, push button pendant stations, brakes, and collision avoidance and power delivery subsystems. The fiscal 2022 acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey expand our product offerings to include a broad range of highly engineered, precision conveying solutions. Our products are typically manufactured for stock or assembled to order from standard components, and are sold primarily through a variety of commercial distributors and, to a lesser extent, directly to end-users. Our STAHL subsidiary brings market leadership with independent crane builders and EPC firms. The diverse end-users of our products are in a variety of industries including manufacturing, power generation and distribution, utilities, wind power, warehouses, commercial construction, oil and gas exploration and refining, petrochemical, marine, ship building, transportation and heavy-duty trucking, agriculture, logging and mining. The acquisitions


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of Dorner and Garvey expand the Company's reach to include the stable life sciences, food processing and consumer packaged goods markets and high growth industrial automation and e-commerce sectors. We also serve a niche market for the entertainment industry, including permanent and traveling concerts, live theater, and sporting venues.

Products
 
Of our fiscal 2022 sales, $532,830,000, or 59%, were U.S. and $373,725,000 or 41% were non-U.S. The following table sets forth certain sales data for our products, expressed as a percentage of net sales for fiscal 2022 and 2021:
 
 Fiscal Years Ended March 31,
 20222021
Hoists48 %61 %
High-precision conveying systems16 — 
Digital power control and delivery systems11 12 
Actuators and rotary unions11 
Chain and rigging tools
Industrial cranes
Elevator application drive systems
 100 %100 %
 
Hoists - We manufacture a wide variety of electric chain hoists, electric wire rope hoists, hand-operated hoists, winches, lever tools, and air-powered hoists. Load capacities for our hoist product lines range from one-eighth of a ton to nearly 275 tons with the acquisition of STAHL. These products are sold under our Budgit, Chester, CM, Coffing, Little Mule, Pfaff, Shaw-Box, STAHL, Yale, and other recognized brands. Our hoists are sold for use in numerous general industrial applications, as well as for use in the construction, energy and utilities, steel and metals processing, mining, transportation, entertainment, and other markets. We also supply hoist trolleys, driven manually or by electric motors, which are used in conjunction with hoists.

We also offer several lines of standard and custom-designed, below-the-hook tooling, clamps, and textile strappings. Below-the-hook tooling, textile, and chain slings and associated forgings, and clamps are specialized lifting apparatus used in a variety of lifting activities performed in conjunction with hoisting or lifting applications.

We also manufacture explosion-protected hoists and custom engineered hoists, including wire rope and manual and electric chain hoists. Our STAHL branded products are sold to a variety of end markets including automotive, general manufacturing, oil and gas, steel and concrete, power generation as well as process industries such as chemical and pharmaceuticals.

High-precision conveying systems – Our fiscal 2022 acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey expanded our product offerings to include high-precision, specialty conveyor system solutions. These conveyor systems range from build to order modular standard systems to highly engineered customer solutions. These products offer customers high quality and reliable solutions that enhance productivity and profitability.

Digital Power Control and Delivery Systems - Through our Magnetek brand, we are a leading provider of innovative power control and delivery systems and solutions for overhead material handling applications used in a number of diverse industries, including aerospace, automotive, steel, aluminum, paper, logging, mining, ship loading, nuclear power plants, and heavy movable structures. We are a major supplier in North America of power and motion control systems, which include AC and DC drive systems, radio remote controls, push button pendant stations, brakes, and collision avoidance and power delivery subsystems. While we sell primarily to OEMs of overhead cranes and hoists, we spend a great deal of effort understanding the needs of end users to gain specification. We can combine our products with engineered services to provide complete customer-specific system solutions.

We are also a leading independent supplier of AC and DC digital motion control systems for underground coal mining equipment. Our systems are used in coal hauling vehicles, shuttle cars, scoops, and other heavy mining equipment.

Actuators and Rotary Unions - Through our Duff-Norton and Pfaff brands, we design and manufacture industrial components such as mechanical and electromechanical actuators and rotary unions. Actuators are linear motion devices used in a variety of industries, including the transportation, paper, steel, energy, aerospace, and many other commercial industries. Rotary unions are devices that transfer a liquid or gas from a fixed pipe or hose to a rotating drum, cylinder or other device. Rotary unions are used in a variety of industries including pulp and paper, printing, textile and fabric manufacturing, rubber, and plastic.


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Chain and Rigging Tools - We manufacture alloy and carbon steel chain for various industrial and consumer applications. U.S. federal regulations require the use of alloy chain for overhead lifting applications because of its strength and wear characteristics. A line of our alloy chain is sold under the Herc-AlloyTM brand name for use in overhead lifting, pulling, and restraining applications. In addition, we also sell specialized load chain for use in hoists, as well as three grades and multiple sizes of carbon steel welded-link chain for various load securing and other non-overhead lifting applications.
We produce a broad line of alloy and carbon steel closed-die forged chain attachments, including hooks, shackles, HammerloksTM, and master links. These forged attachments are used in chain, wire rope, and textile rigging applications in a variety of industries, including transportation, mining, construction, marine, logging, petrochemical, and agriculture.

In addition, we manufacture carbon steel forged and stamped products, such as load binders, logging tools, and other securing devices, for sale to the industrial and logging markets through industrial distributors, hardware distributors, mass merchandiser outlets, and original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs").
Industrial Cranes - We manufacture and market under our Unified Industries brand overhead aluminum light rail workstations primarily used in automotive and other industrial applications. We also manufacture crane components and crane kits through our STAHL branded products.

Elevator Application Drive Systems - Through our Magnetek brand we also design, build, sell, and support elevator application-specific drive products that efficiently deliver power used to control motion, primarily in high-rise, high-speed elevator applications. We are recognized as an industry leader for DC high-performance elevator drives, as well as for AC drives used with low- and high-performance traction elevators, due to our extensive application expertise and product reliability. Our elevator product offerings are comprised of highly integrated subsystems and drives, sold mainly to elevator OEMs. In addition, our product options include a number of regenerative controls for both new building installations and elevator modernization projects that help building owners save energy.
 
Distribution and Markets
 
We sell our products and solutions through various distribution channels and direct to certain end users. The following describes our global distribution channels:
 
General Distribution Channels -  Our global general distribution channels consist of:

    —     Industrial distributors that serve local or regional industrial markets and sell a variety of products for maintenance repair, operating, and production, or MROP, applications through their own direct sales force.
 
—     Rigging shops that are distributors with expertise in rigging, lifting, positioning, and load securing. Most rigging shops assemble and distribute chain, wire rope and synthetic slings, and distribute manual hoists and attachments, chain slings, and other products.
 
—     Independent crane builders that design, build, install, and service overhead crane and light-rail systems for general industry and also distribute a wide variety of hoists and crane components. We sell electric wire rope hoists and chain hoists as well as crane components, such as end trucks, trolleys, drives, and electrification systems to crane builders.
 
Specialty Distribution Channels -  Our global specialty distribution channels consist of:

—     National and regional distributors that market a variety of MROP supplies, including material handling products, either exclusively through large, nationally distributed catalogs, or through a combination of catalog, internet, and branch sales and a field sales force.

—     Material handling specialists and integrators that design and assemble systems incorporating hoists, overhead rail systems, trolleys, scissor lift tables, manipulators, air balancers, jib arms, and other material handling products to provide end-users with solutions to their material handling problems.

—     Entertainment equipment distributors that design, supply, and install a variety of material handling and rigging equipment for concerts, theaters, ice shows, sporting events, convention centers, and night clubs.



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Service-After-Sale Distribution Channel - Service-after-sale distributors include our authorized network of 23 chain repair service stations and over 229 certified hoist service and repair stations globally. This service network is designed for easy parts and service access for our large installed base of hoists and related equipment in that region.
 
OEM/Government Distribution Channels - This channel consists of:
 
—     OEMs that supply various component parts directly to other industrial manufacturers as well as private branding and packaging of our traditional products for material handling, lifting, positioning, and special purpose applications.

—     Government agencies, including the U.S. and Canadian Navies and Coast Guards, that primarily purchase load securing chain and forged attachments. We also provide our products to the U.S. and other governments for a variety of military applications.

Independent Crane Builders and Engineering Procurement and Construction ("EPC") firms - In addition to the Distribution Channels mentioned above, we sell explosion-protected hoists and custom engineered non-standard hoists to independent crane builders and EPC firms. Independent crane builders are lifting solution developers and final crane assemblers that source hoists as components. EPC firms are responsible for project management or construction management of production facilities that purchase lifting solutions from crane and hoist builders.

Backlog
 
Our backlog of orders at March 31, 2022 was approximately $309,052,000, including $60,223,000 of backlog related to the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions, compared to approximately $171,698,000 at March 31, 2021. The increase is a result of growing order rates as markets recover from COVID-19, backlog related to the acquired businesses, as well as higher than normal backlog due to supply chain challenges. Our orders for standard products are generally shipped within one week. Orders for products that are manufactured to customer specifications are generally shipped within four to twelve weeks. Given the short product lead times, we do not believe that the amount of our backlog of orders is a reliable indication of our future sales. Fluctuations in backlog can reflect the project-oriented nature of certain aspects of our business.

Competitive Conditions
 
The material handling and precision conveyance industries remains fragmented. We face competition from a wide range of regional, national, and international manufacturers globally. In addition, we often compete with individual operating units of larger, highly diversified companies.

The principal competitive factors affecting our business include customer service and support as well as product availability, performance, functionality, brand reputation, reliability, and price. Other important factors include distributor relationships and territory coverage as well as the robustness of our digital tools which impacts the customer experience.

We believe we have leading U.S. market share in various products categories including hoists, trolleys and components, AC and DC material handling drives, screw jacks, and elevator DC drives. These product categories represented 53% of our U.S. net sales for fiscal 2022.

Major competitors for hoists are Konecranes, and Kito (and its U.S. subsidiary Harrington); for chain are Campbell Chain, Peerless Chain Company (acquired by Kito), and American Chain and Cable Company; for digital power control systems are Konecranes, Power Electronics International, Inc., Cattron Holdings (a division of Harbour Group), Conductix-Wampfler (a division of Delachaux Group), Control Techniques (a division of Nidec Corporation), OMRON Corporation, KEB GmbH, and Fujitec; for forged attachments are The Crosby Group, Brewer Tichner Company and Chicago Hardware and Fixture Company; for actuators and rotary unions are Deublin, Joyce-Dayton, and Nook Industries, a division of Altra Industrial Motion Corp.; and for precision conveyors and accumulators are FlexLink, Bosch Rexroth AG, MK North America, Inc., Duravant, Nercon Eng. & Mfg. Inc and Arrowhead Systems.
 
Human Capital Management
Headquartered in Buffalo, New York, Columbus McKinnon’s global footprint includes offices and manufacturing facilities in more than 24 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. At March 31, 2022, we had 3,224 employees globally. Approximately 6% of our employees are represented under two separate U.S. collective bargaining agreements that expire in May 2024 and September 2024. We also have various labor agreements with our non-U.S. employees that we negotiate from time to time. We have good relationships with our employees and positive, productive


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relationships with our unions. We believe the risk of employee or union led disruption in production is remote. The acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey in fiscal 2022 added approximately 596 employees to our global workforce and five primary manufacturing facilities.

Successful execution of our strategy is dependent on attracting, developing, and retaining key employees and members of
our management team, which we achieve through the following:

We always begin with people and values at the center of all that we do and at the heart of our corporate social responsibility efforts. The Company’s people and the behaviors they display define our success, including integrity, respect and teamwork. Many of our material social factors, including Employee Health and Safety, Training and Development, Talent Recruitment and Retention, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Community Involvement, are directly connected to our commitment to people and values. Our people enable us to grow, and our values ensure we grow responsibly and sustainably.
The Company places the highest priority on workplace safety. We feel it is critical to ensure our most valuable assets, our employees, have a safe environment to work in every day. “Connect safety to everything you do” highlights the importance of safety to our culture. As a permanent agenda item at all management meetings, safety comes first. For fiscal 2022, the Company had an overall safety incident rate of 0.70 (number of injuries and illnesses multiplied by 200,000, divided by hours worked). This figure excludes our fiscal 2022 acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey which will be incorporated in Fiscal 2023.
We are committed to embracing diversity, equity and inclusion and making it a part of everything we do. We know the positive impact diverse and inclusive teams have on our business, employees, customers, and communities around the world. We are dedicated to building a company that future generations can be proud of and a team that embraces diversity and appreciates differences across the enterprise. We have embedded diversity, equity and inclusion into the People and Values framework of the Columbus McKinnon Business System. We are working to create an environment of inclusion. We launched a series of virtual training modules around diversity, inclusion and unconscious bias. We have updated our core value “Win as a team” to specifically address embracing diversity.

As part of our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we implemented strict safety protocols at our sites, as recommended by medical and public health experts. We continue to have regular communication with employees to keep them abreast of the corporate-wide expectations and posted signage throughout our facilities reminds our associates of the new heightened safety protocols, including frequent cleaning and increased sanitization efforts to keep our employees safe. Associates where possible are being brought back to the office in a hybrid working model, increasing site collaboration while maintaining flexibility.

We also recognize our corporate responsibility to advance our Environmental Social and Governance (“ESG”) efforts and to be held accountable for making progress. We are making significant investments in our people and systems to enable meaningful progress in areas including, but not limited to, environmental stewardship, safety for our employees, workplace diversity and inclusion, connecting with our communities, and strong governance and risk management. We are taking deliberate steps to fully integrate ESG into our enterprise strategy, our business system, and our daily actions.

In fiscal 2022, we made it a priority to articulate our Purpose - Together we create intelligent motion solutions that move the world forward and improve lives.

In addition, we also set the following objectives for fiscal 2022:
Make significant investments in forward advancement of ESG (People & Technology enablers);
Perform extensive data collection and analysis to identify areas for improvement;
Build upon our baseline year ESG metrics;
Build upon our legacy products and commitment to customers, while also growing through acquisitions;
Launch our CMCO Cares platform, a more formal and centralized process for corporate giving and community involvement; and
Be more transparent with internal and external stakeholders through communications and public disclosures.

As we look forward to fiscal 2023 and beyond, we have additional plans that will continue to move our ESG initiatives forward. We continue to collect and analyze data to set realistic, yet challenging goals. We expect to publish several of these goals in our next Corporate Social Responsibility Report.

Raw Materials and Components
 
Our principal raw material and component purchases aggregated to approximately $368 million in fiscal 2022 (or 62% of Cost of product sold in fiscal 2022) and included steel, consisting of rod, wire, bar, structural, and other forms of steel; electric motors; bearings; gear reducers; castings; steel and aluminum enclosures and wire harnesses; electro-mechanical components;


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conveyors; accumulators and standard variable drives. We purchase most of these raw materials and components from a limited number of strategic and preferred suppliers under agreements that are negotiated on a Company-wide basis through our global purchasing group. Generally, as we experience fluctuations in our costs, we reflect these increases in costs as price increases to our customers with the goal of being margin neutral. Currently, as a result of global supply chain challenges, we are experiencing higher raw material costs. To date, we have successfully raised prices several times globally to our customers to cover these increased raw material costs and protect gross margins. 
 
Environmental and Other Governmental Regulation
 
Like most manufacturing companies, we are subject to various federal, state, and local laws relating to the protection of the environment. To address the requirements of such laws, we have adopted a corporate environmental protection policy which provides that all of our owned or leased facilities must comply, and all of our employees have the duty to comply, with all applicable environmental regulatory standards, and we have initiated an environmental auditing program for our facilities to ensure compliance with such regulatory standards. We have also established managerial responsibilities and internal communication channels for dealing with environmental compliance issues that may arise in the course of our business. We have made, and could be required to continue to make, significant expenditures to comply with environmental requirements. Because of the complexity and changing nature of environmental regulatory standards, it is possible that situations will arise from time to time requiring us to incur additional expenditures to ensure environmental regulatory compliance. However, we are not aware of any environmental condition or any operation at any of our facilities, either individually or in the aggregate, which would cause expenditures having a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition or cash flows.
Our operations are also governed by many other laws and regulations, including those relating to workplace safety and worker health, principally OSHA in the U.S. and others outside the U.S. and regulations thereunder. We believe that we are in substantial compliance with these laws and regulations and do not believe that future compliance with such laws and regulations will have a material adverse effect on our operating results, financial condition, or liquidity.

See Note 16 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K for more information on our matters involving litigation.

Available Information

Our internet address is www.columbusmckinnon.com. We make available free of charge through our website our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as soon as reasonably practicable after such documents are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The content on any website referred to in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Form 10-K”) is not incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K, unless expressly noted otherwise.



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Item 1A.    Risk Factors
 
Columbus McKinnon is subject to a number of risks that could negatively affect our business, financial condition or results from business operations or cause our actual results to differ materially from those projected or indicated in any forward-looking statement. You should carefully consider the risks described below, as well as the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K in evaluating your investment in us. The risks and uncertainties described below are those that we have identified as material, but are not the only risks and uncertainties facing Columbus McKinnon. This list is not all-inclusive or necessarily in order of importance. Our business could also be affected by additional risks that are not presently known to us or that we currently consider to be immaterial.
 
Business Risks

Our business is cyclical and is affected by industrial economic and macroeconomic conditions.

Many of the end-users of our products are in highly cyclical industries, such as manufacturing, power generation and distribution, commercial construction, oil and gas exploration and refining, transportation, agriculture, logging, and mining that are sensitive to changes in general economic conditions. Their demand for our products, and thus our results of operations, is directly related to the level of production in their facilities, which changes as a result of changes in general macroeconomic conditions, including, among others, movements in interest rates, inflation, changes in currency exchange rates and higher fuel and other energy costs, and other factors beyond our control, and is vulnerable to economic downturns. Decreased capital and maintenance spending by these customers could have a material adverse effect on the demand for our products and our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In particular, higher interest rates could result in decreased demand for our products from end-users, which would have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations, and concurrently result in higher interest expense related to borrowings under our credit facilities. In addition, inflation can also result in higher interest rates and negatively impact our results of operation. With inflation, the costs of capital increases, and the purchasing power of our and our end users’ cash resources declines, which can negatively affect demand from our customers. Current or future efforts by the government to stimulate the economy may increase the risk of significant inflation, which could have a direct and indirect adverse impact on our business and results of operations. If there is deterioration in the general economy or in the industries we serve, our business, results of operations, and financial condition could be materially adversely affected. Furthermore, even if demand for our products improves, it is difficult to predict whether any improvement represents a long-term improving trend or the extent or timing of improvement. There can be no assurance that historically improving cycles are representative of actual future demand. In addition, the cyclical nature of our business could at times also adversely affect our liquidity and ability to borrow under our revolving credit facility.

Our business, particularly with respect to our material handling and precision conveyance products, is highly competitive and subject to consolidation of competitors. Increased competition could reduce our sales, earnings, and profitability.

The principal markets that we serve within the material handling and precision conveyance industries are fragmented and highly competitive. Competition is based primarily on customer service and support as well as product availability, performance, functionality, brand reputation, reliability, and price. Our competition in the markets in which we participate comes from companies of various sizes, some of which have greater financial and other resources than we do. Increased competition could force us to lower our prices or to offer additional services at a higher cost to us, which could reduce our gross margins and net income.

The greater financial resources or the lower amount of debt of certain of our competitors may enable them to commit larger amounts of capital in response to changing market conditions. Certain competitors may also have the ability to develop product or service innovations that could put us at a disadvantage. In addition, through consolidation, some of our competitors have achieved substantially greater market penetration in certain of the markets in which we operate than we have been able to achieve. If we are unable to compete successfully against other manufacturers of material handling equipment and precision conveyors, we could lose customers and our revenues may decline. There can also be no assurance that customers will continue to regard our products favorably, that we will be able to develop new products or product developments that appeal to customers, that we will be able to improve or maintain our profit margins on sales to our customers or that we will be able to continue to compete successfully in our core markets.

Our growth strategy depends on successful integration of acquisitions.

Acquisitions are a key part of our growth strategy. Our historical growth has depended, and our future growth is likely to depend, on our ability to successfully execute our acquisition strategy, and the successful integration of acquired businesses, including Dorner and Garvey, into our existing business. Such a strategy involves the potential risks inherent in assessing the value, strengths, weaknesses, contingent or other liabilities, and potential profitability of acquisition candidates and in


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integrating the operations of acquired companies. In addition, any acquisitions of businesses with foreign operations or sales may increase our exposure to risks inherent in doing business outside the United States.

We intend to continue to seek additional acquisition opportunities in accordance with our acquisition strategy, both to expand into new markets and to enhance our position in existing markets throughout the world. If we are unable to successfully integrate acquired businesses, including Dorner and Garvey, into our existing business or expand into new markets, our sales and earnings growth could be reduced. Furthermore, the failure to achieve the anticipated synergies of our recent significant acquisitions or recognize the anticipated market opportunities or integration from our recent acquisitions, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has, and may in the future continue to, adversely affect our business.

We have been, and may continue in future periods to be, materially and adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to global macroeconomic effects, the COVID-19 pandemic and any other related adverse public health developments have caused, and are expected to continue to cause, disruption to both our domestic and international operations and sales activities. The continued operation of our facilities is subject to local laws and regulations. While all of our facilities have been deemed essential under applicable law, there is no guarantee this will continue. Although we have thus far had no significant operating disruptions due to the pandemic, like all companies, the apparent increased contagiousness of the Omicron variant poses risk to the availability of our workforce. Our third-party manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been, and may in the future continue to be, disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on their employees’ ability to work, office and factory closures, disruptions to ports and other shipping infrastructure, border closures, and other travel or health-related restrictions. Depending on the magnitude of such effects on our manufacturing operations or the operations of our suppliers, third-party distributors, or sub-contractors, our supply chain, manufacturing and product shipments have been, and in the future may continue to be, delayed, which could adversely affect our business, operations, and customer relationships. In addition, COVID-19 or other disease outbreaks have in the short-run and may over the longer term adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries and have caused inflationary pressures in the U.S. and elsewhere, which could result in an economic downturn that could affect demand for our products and impact our operating results. There can be no assurance that any decrease in sales resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will be offset by increased sales in subsequent periods. Although the magnitude of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations remains uncertain, the continued spread of the COVID-19 or the occurrence of other epidemics and the imposition of related public health measures and travel and business restrictions has, and may in the future continue to, adversely impact our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.

Our future operating results may be affected by price fluctuations and trade tariffs on steel, aluminum, and other raw materials purchased to manufacture our products. We may not be able to pass on increases in raw material costs to our customers.

The primary raw materials used in our chain, forging and crane building operations are steel, aluminum, and other raw materials such as motors, electrical and electronic components, castings and machined parts and components. The industries that produce these critical components and materials are also themselves highly cyclical and at times pricing and availability can be volatile due to a number of factors beyond our control, including general economic conditions, labor costs, competition, import duties, tariffs, and currency exchange rates. This volatility can significantly affect our raw material costs. In an environment of increasing raw material prices and trade tariffs, competitive conditions will determine how much of the price increases we can pass on to our customers. In the future, to the extent we are unable to pass on any steel, aluminum, or other raw material price increases to our customers, our profitability could be adversely affected.

If critical components or raw materials used to manufacture our products become scarce or unavailable, then we may incur delays in manufacturing and delivery of our products, which has damaged, and could continue to damage, our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Due to increased demand across a range of industries, the global supply chain for certain critical components and raw materials used in the manufacture of our products has experienced significant constraints in recent periods. Particularly, the markets for motors, computer chips, and other components are experiencing increased demand, creating substantial uncertainty regarding the availability of key components and raw materials used to manufacture our products. The COVID-19 pandemic has also contributed to and exacerbated these constraints. This constrained supply environment has adversely affected, and could further affect, availability, lead times and cost of components and raw material, and has impacted, and could continue to impact, our ability to respond to accelerated or quick-turn delivery requests from customers, or meet customer demand and product delivery dates for our end customers where we cannot timely secure adequate supply of these components and raw materials. Moreover, if any of our suppliers become financially unstable, or otherwise unable or unwilling to provide us with raw materials or components, we may have to find new suppliers. It may take several months to locate alternative suppliers, if required, or to


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redesign our products to accommodate components from different suppliers. We cannot predict if we will be able to obtain replacement components within the timeframes that we require at an acceptable cost, if at all. In addition, we have experienced, and may continue to experience, significant delays in receiving shipments of key component and raw materials and in shipping our completed products to customers. We have incurred, and may continue to incur, additional shipping and delivery costs to seek to expedite the delivery of critical components and raw materials.

In an effort to mitigate these risks, in some cases, we have incurred higher costs to secure available inventory, or have extended or placed non-cancellable purchase commitments with suppliers, which introduces inventory risk if our forecasts and assumptions prove inaccurate. While we may attempt to recover the increased costs through price increases to our customers, we may be unable to mitigate the effect on our results of operations. We have also multi-sourced and pre-ordered components and raw materials inventory in some cases in an effort to reduce the impact of the adverse supply chain conditions we have experienced. Despite our attempts to mitigate the impact on our business, these constrained supply conditions are expected to adversely impact our costs of goods sold. Limits on manufacturing availability or capacity or delays in production or delivery of components or raw materials due to COVID-related restrictions could further delay or inhibit our ability to obtain supply of components and raw materials and produce finished goods. There can be no assurance that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the supply chain will not continue, or worsen, in the future. These supply chain constraints and their related challenges could result in shortages, increased material costs or use of cash, engineering design changes, and delays in new product introductions, each of which could adversely impact our growth, gross margin and financial results. These types of negative financial impacts on our business may become more acute as supply chain pressures increase.
We rely in large part on independent distributors for sales of our products.
For the most part, we depend on independent distributors to sell our products and provide service and aftermarket support to our end-user customers. Distributors play a significant role in determining which of our products are stocked at their locations, and hence are most readily accessible to aftermarket buyers, and the price at which these products are sold. Almost all of the distributors with whom we transact business offer competitive products and services to our end-user customers. For the most part, we do not have written agreements with our distributors. The loss of a substantial number of these distributors or an increase in the distributors' sales of our competitors' products to our ultimate customers could materially reduce our sales and profits.

The future results of our Company will suffer if we do not effectively manage our expanded operations following the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions.

Since the completion of the acquisition of Dorner and Garvey, the size of our business has increased significantly beyond its pre-acquisition size. Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to manage the Dorner and Garvey businesses, which will pose substantial challenges for management, including challenges related to the management and monitoring of our operations and associated increased costs and complexity. There can be no assurances that the Dorner business or the Garvey business will be successful or that we will realize the benefits anticipated from the acquisition of those businesses.

We are currently integrating the operations of Dorner and Garvey into the Company. As part of the integration plan for Dorner and Garvey, we have incurred, and anticipate that we will continue to incur, certain non-recurring charges in connection with this integration, including costs for:

employee retention, redeployment, relocation or severance; and
integration, including of people, technology, operations, marketing, and systems and processes;

however, we cannot identify the exact timing, nature and amount of all such charges. These integration costs will be charged as an expense in the period incurred. Although we believe that the elimination of duplicative costs, as well as the realization of other efficiencies related to the integration of the businesses, will offset incremental transaction and acquisition-related costs over time, this net benefit may not be achieved in the near term, or at all.

Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to continue to attract, develop, engage and retain qualified employees.

Because of the complex nature of many of our products and services, we are generally dependent on an educated and highly skilled workforce, including our engineering talent and our sales professionals. Failure to attract, develop, engage and retain qualified employees, whether as a result of an insufficient number of qualified applicants, difficulty in recruiting new employees, or inadequate resources to train, integrate and retain qualified employees, could impair our ability to execute our business strategy, and could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. The importance of recruiting and retaining qualified employees has only become more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic as


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labor shortages have occurred in many of the regions in which we have operations. Low rates of unemployment in key geographic areas in which we operate may lead to high rates of turnover and loss of critical talent, which could in turn lead to higher labor costs.

Financial Risks

Changes in the method of determining the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR"), or the replacement of LIBOR with an alternative reference rate, may adversely affect interest rates.

On July 27, 2017, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates LIBOR, announced that it intends to phase out LIBOR by the end of 2021, although on November 30, 2020 it announced that it had extended the period in which it will continue to publish certain LIBOR tenors, including three-month LIBOR, to June 30, 2023. It is unclear if at that time LIBOR will cease to exist or if new methods of calculating LIBOR will be established such that it continues to exist after June 30, 2023, or whether different benchmark rates used to price indebtedness will develop. The Alternative Reference Rates Committee, a group of market participants convened by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has recommended the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), a rate calculated based on repurchase agreements backed by treasury securities, as its recommended alternative benchmark rate to replace LIBOR. At this time, it is not known whether or when SOFR or other alternative reference rates will attain market traction as replacements for LIBOR. Any new benchmark rate will likely not replicate LIBOR exactly. The interest rate on the Company’s Term Loan B and revolving credit facility have a variable component that is based on LIBOR. The phase-out of LIBOR may negatively impact the terms of our outstanding indebtedness. In addition, the overall financial market may be disrupted as a result of the phase-out or replacement of LIBOR. Disruption in the financial market could have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity.

In connection with the completion of the acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey, our indebtedness has increased significantly. Our indebtedness could limit our cash flow available for operations and our flexibility.

In connection with the completion of the acquisition of Dorner and Garvey, our indebtedness has increased significantly. In connection with the Dorner acquisition, we incurred debt of $450,000,000 under the Term Loan B, following our equity offering of $207,000,000 in May 2021. Additionally, in connection with the completion of the Garvey acquisition, the Company incurred another $75,000,000 of Term Loan B indebtedness through the exercise of an accordion feature under the terms of our existing credit agreement. As of March 31, 2022, we had approximately $100,000,000 available for borrowing under the revolving credit facility (after deducting approximately $17,151,000 of letters of credit outstanding as of March 31, 2022).

The degree to which we are leveraged could have important consequences to our shareholders, including the following:

we may have greater difficulty satisfying our obligations with respect to our indebtedness;
we must dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to the payment of principal and interest on our indebtedness, reducing the funds available for our operations;
our ability to obtain additional financing in the future for working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions or other purposes may be impaired;
we may be limited in our ability to make additional acquisitions or pay dividends on our common stock;
our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in the markets in which we compete may be limited;
we may be at a competitive disadvantage relative to our competitors with less indebtedness;
we may be rendered more vulnerable to general adverse economic and industry conditions;
our credit ratings may be downgraded; and
we are exposed to increased interest rate risk given that a portion of our indebtedness obligations are at variable interest rates.

Dorner and Garvey were each previously a private company and were not required to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (“Sarbanes-Oxley”).

Sarbanes-Oxley requires public companies to have and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and preparation of financial statements and to have management report on the effectiveness of those controls on an annual basis (and have its independent public accountants attest annually to the effectiveness of such internal controls). As private companies, Dorner and Garvey were not required to comply with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley.



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In connection with the completed acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey, we have been implementing our Sarbanes-Oxley procedures regarding internal controls over financial reporting. This process has required a significant amount of time from our management and other personnel, and has required, and will continue to require, us to expend a significant amount of financial resources, which is likely to increase our compliance costs. We will be required to assess Dorner's and Garvey's internal controls over financial reporting beginning one year after the date of the acquisition.

Our operations outside the U.S. pose certain risks that may adversely impact sales and earnings.
We have operations and assets located outside of the United States, primarily in China, Mexico, Germany, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Malaysia and Russia. In addition, we import a portion of our hoist product line from Asia and sell our products to distributors located in approximately 50 countries. In our fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, approximately 41% of our net sales were derived from non-U.S. markets. These non-U.S. operations are subject to a number of special risks, in addition to the risks of our U.S. business, differing protections of intellectual property, trade barriers, labor unrest, exchange controls, regional economic uncertainty, differing (and possibly more stringent) labor regulation, risk of governmental expropriation, U.S. and foreign customs and tariffs, current and changing regulatory environments, difficulty in obtaining distribution support, difficulty in staffing and managing widespread operations, differences in the availability, and terms of financing, political instability and risks of increases in taxes. Also, in some foreign jurisdictions we may be subject to laws limiting the right and ability of entities organized or operating therein to pay dividends or remit earnings to affiliated companies unless specified conditions are met. These factors may adversely affect our future profits.
Part of our strategy is to expand our worldwide market share and reduce costs by strengthening our international distribution capabilities and sourcing components in lower cost countries, such as China, Mexico, Hungary and Malaysia. Implementation of this strategy may increase the impact of the risks described above, and we cannot assure you that such risks will not have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations or financial condition.

Other risks of doing business in international markets include the increased risks and burdens of complying with different legal and regulatory standards, difficulties in managing and staffing foreign operations, recruiting and retaining talented direct sales personnel, limitations on the repatriation of funds and fluctuations of foreign exchange rates, varying levels of internet technology adoption and infrastructure and our ability to enforce contracts and our intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions. Additionally, there are risks associated with fundamental changes to international markets, such as those that may occur as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In addition, in connection with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. has imposed, and is likely to impose material additional, financial and economic sanctions and export controls against Russia and certain Russian organizations and individuals, with similar actions either implemented or planned by the European Union and the U.K. and other jurisdictions. While the Company’s business operations relating to Russia constitute an immaterial part of the Company’s overall business, we may decide to, or be required to, exit from our operations in Russia in their entirety, which could result in a loss of revenues currently earned from our Russian operations (approximately $2,174,000 for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022) or may necessitate the need to incur a bad debt reserve or an asset write-off related to our Russian operations. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the current Russian invasion of Ukraine will not draw military intervention from other countries or further retaliation from Russia, which, in turn, could lead to a much larger conflict. If such escalation should occur, supply chain, trade routes and markets currently served by the Company could be adversely affected. In addition, a further escalation could disrupt the supply of oil and natural gas in Europe, impacting our ability to operate our European manufacturing facilities, which, in turn, could materially adversely affect the Company’s business operations and financial performance.

In addition, our success in international expansion could be limited by barriers to international expansion such as adverse tax consequences and export controls. If we cannot manage these risks effectively, the costs of doing business in some international markets may be prohibitive or our costs may increase disproportionately to our revenue.

We are subject to currency fluctuations from our sales outside the U.S.
Our products are sold in many countries around the world. Thus, a portion of our revenues (approximately $373,725,000 in our fiscal year ended March 31, 2022) are generated in foreign currencies, including principally the Euro, the British Pound, the Canadian Dollar, the South African Rand, the Brazilian Real, the Mexican Peso, and the Chinese Yuan, and while much of the costs incurred to generate those revenues are incurred in the same currency, a portion is incurred in other currencies. Since our financial statements are denominated in U.S. dollars, changes in currency exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies have had, and will continue to have, a currency translation impact on our earnings. Currency fluctuations may impact our financial performance in the future.




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We are subject to debt covenant restrictions.
Our Term Loan B Facility and revolving credit facility contain a financial leverage covenant, which will only be tested if any extensions of credit (other than letters of credit) are outstanding under the revolving credit facility at the end of any fiscal quarter, and other restrictive covenants. A significant decline in our operating income or cash generating ability could cause us to violate our leverage covenant in our bank credit facilities. Other material adverse changes in our business could also cause us to be in default of our debt covenants. Any breach of any such covenants or restrictions would result in a default under such agreement that could result in our being unable to borrow under our bank credit facilities and would permit the lenders to declare all borrowings under such agreement to be immediately due and payable and, through cross-default provisions, could entitle other lenders to accelerate their loans to us. In such an event, the Company would need to modify or restructure all or a portion of its indebtedness. Depending on prevailing economic conditions at the time, the Company might find it difficult to modify or restructure the debt on attractive terms, or at all.
Legal Risks

Our products involve risks of personal injury and property damage, which exposes us to potential liability.
Our business exposes us to possible claims for personal injury or death and property damage resulting from the products that we sell and to potential warranty, contractual or other claims. These product liability risks are inherent in the design, manufacture and sale of our products. Our products are complex and may contain defects, errors, or experience failures or unsatisfactory performance, due to any number of issues, including issues in materials, design, fabrication, packaging and/or use within a system or item of equipment. Further, because of the complexity of our products, defects or errors might only be detected when the products are in use. Development of new products increases complexity and adds risk to manufacturing reliability, and increases the likelihood of product defects or errors. In addition, defects in our products could result in failure to achieve market acceptance, a shifting of business to our competitors, and litigation or regulatory action against us, and could harm our reputation or the reputation of the various brands under which we sell our products, our relationships with customers and our ability to attract new customers, as well as the perceptions of our brands. Other potential adverse impacts of product defects include shipment delays, write-offs of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets, and losses on unfavorable purchase commitments.

We maintain insurance through a combination of self-insurance retentions and excess insurance coverage. We monitor claims and potential claims of which we become aware and establish accrued liability reserves for the self-insurance amounts based on our liability estimates for such claims. We cannot give any assurance that existing or future claims will not exceed our estimates for self-insurance or the amount of our excess insurance coverage. In addition, we cannot give any assurance that insurance will continue to be available to us on economically reasonable terms or that our insurers would not require us to increase our self-insurance amounts. Claims brought against us that are not covered by insurance or that are in excess of insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our results, financial condition, or liquidity.

In addition, like many industrial manufacturers, we are also involved in asbestos-related litigation. In continually evaluating costs relating to our estimated asbestos-related liability, we review, among other things, the incidence of past and recent claims, the historical case dismissal rate, the mix of the claimed illnesses and occupations of the plaintiffs, our recent and historical resolution of the cases, the number of cases pending against us, the status and results of broad-based settlement discussions, and the number of years such activity might continue. Based on this review, we estimate our share of liability to defend and resolve probable asbestos related personal injury claims. This estimate is highly uncertain due to the limitations of the available data and the difficulty of forecasting with any certainty the numerous variables that can affect the range of the liability. We continue to study the variables in light of additional information in order to identify trends that may become evident and to assess their impact on the range of liability that is probable and estimable. We believe that the potential additional costs for claims will not have a material effect on the financial condition of the Company or its liquidity, although the effect of any future liabilities recorded could be material to earnings in a future period. See Note 16 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.
As indicated above, our self-insurance coverage is provided through our captive insurance subsidiary. The reserves of our captive insurance subsidiary are subject to periodic adjustments based upon actuarial evaluations, which adjustments impact our overall results of operations and financial condition. These periodic adjustments can be favorable or unfavorable.

We are subject to various environmental laws, which may require us to expend significant capital and incur substantial cost.
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disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, and the cleanup of contaminated sites. We have made, and will continue to make, expenditures to comply with such requirements. Violations of, or liabilities under, environmental laws and regulations, or changes in such laws and regulations (such as the imposition of more stringent standards for discharges into the environment), could result in substantial costs to us, including operating costs and capital expenditures, fines and civil and criminal sanctions, third party claims for property damage or personal injury, clean-up costs, or costs relating to the temporary or permanent discontinuance of operations. Certain of our facilities have been in operation for many years, and we have remediated contamination at some of our facilities. Over time, we and other predecessor operators of such facilities have generated, used, handled, and disposed of hazardous and other regulated wastes. Additional environmental liabilities could exist, including clean-up obligations at these locations or other sites at which materials from our operations were disposed, which could result in substantial future expenditures that cannot be currently quantified and which could reduce our profits or have an adverse effect on our financial condition, operations, or liquidity.
We may face claims of infringement on the intellectual property of others, or others may infringe upon our intellectual property.

Our future success depends in part on our ability to prevent others from infringing on our proprietary rights, as well as our ability to operate without infringing upon the proprietary rights of others. We may be required at times to take legal action to protect our proprietary rights and, despite our best efforts, we may be sued for infringing on the intellectual property rights of others. Intellectual property-related litigation is costly and, even if we prevail, the cost of such litigation could adversely affect our financial condition. In addition, we could be adversely affected financially should we be judged to have infringed upon the intellectual property of others.

We rely on subcontractors or suppliers to perform their contractual obligations.
Some of our contracts involve subcontracts with other companies upon which we rely to perform a portion of the services we must provide to our customers. There is a risk that we may have disputes with our subcontractors, including disputes regarding the quality and timeliness of work performed by our subcontractor or customer concerns about the subcontractor. Failure by our subcontractors to satisfactorily provide on a timely basis the agreed-upon supplies or perform the agreed upon services may materially and adversely impact our ability to perform our obligations as the prime contractor. A delay in our ability to obtain components and equipment parts from our suppliers may affect our ability to meet our customers' needs and may have an adverse effect upon our profitability.
General Risks

Adverse changes in global economic conditions may negatively affect our industry, business, and results of operations.
Our industry is affected by changes in economic conditions outside our control, which can result in a general decrease in product demand from our customers. Such economic developments, like inflationary pressures in the U.S. and elsewhere, the China trade wars and the war in Ukraine may affect our business in a number of ways. Reduced demand may drive us and our competitors to offer products at promotional prices, which would have a negative impact on our profitability. In addition, the tightening of credit in financial markets may adversely affect the ability of our customers and suppliers to obtain financing for significant purchases and operations and could result in a decrease in, or cancellation of, orders for our products. If demand for our products slows down or decreases, we will not be able to maintain our revenue and we may run the risk of failing to satisfy the financial and other restrictive covenants to which we are subject under our existing indebtedness. Reduced revenue as a result of decreased demand may also reduce our planned growth and otherwise hinder our ability to improve our performance in connection with our long-term strategy.

Climate change, or legal, regulatory or market measures to address climate change, may materially adversely affect our financial condition and business operations.

Climate change resulting from increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could present risks to our future operations from natural disasters and extreme weather conditions, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, droughts or flooding. Such extreme weather conditions could pose physical risks to our facilities and disrupt operation of our supply chain and may impact operational costs. The impacts of climate change on global water resources may result in water scarcity, which could in the future impact our ability to access sufficient quantities of water in certain locations and result in increased costs.

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reduction or other environmental standards and requirements. As a result, we may experience increased compliance burdens and operational costs and raw material sourcing, manufacturing operations and the distribution of our products may be adversely affected. Moreover, we may not be able to timely meet these requirements due to the required level of capital investment or technological advancement. While we have been committed to continuous improvements to meet anticipated regulations and preferences, there can be no assurance that our commitments will be successful, that our products will be accepted by the market, that proposed regulations will not have a negative competitive impact or that economic returns will reflect our investments in new product development. There also continues to be a lack of consistent climate legislation, which creates economic and regulatory uncertainty. These factors may impact the demand for our products, obsolescence of certain products and adversely affect our results of operations.

Our business operations may be adversely affected by information technology systems interruptions or intrusion.

We depend on various information technology systems throughout our Company to administer, store, and support multiple business activities, including to process the data we collect, store and use in connection with our business. If these systems are damaged, cease to function properly, or are subject to cyber-security attacks, such as those involving unauthorized access, malicious software and/or other intrusions, we could experience production downtimes, operational delays, other detrimental impacts on our operations or ability to provide products and services to our customers, the compromising of confidential or otherwise protected information, destruction or corruption of data, security breaches, other manipulation or improper use of our systems or networks, financial losses from remedial actions, loss of business or potential liability, and/or damage to our reputation. Our information technology systems may be damaged or cease to function properly due to any number of causes, such as catastrophic events, power outages and security breaches (including destructive malware such as ransomware) resulting in unauthorized access or cyber-attacks. As the breadth and complexity of our information technology systems continue to grow, including as a result of the increasing reliance on, and use of, mobile technologies and cloud-based services, and as more of our employees are working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of security incidents and cyberattacks has increased. While we attempt to mitigate these risks by employing a number of measures, including employee training, technical security controls, and maintenance of backup and protective systems, our systems, networks, products, and services remain potentially vulnerable to known or unknown cybersecurity threats, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Furthermore, cybersecurity threats are constantly expanding and evolving, becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex, increasing the difficulty of detecting and defending against them and maintaining effective security measures and protocols.

We are also subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States, Europe and around the world, as well as contractual obligations, regarding data privacy, security and protection. These laws and regulations continue to evolve, are increasing in complexity and number and increasingly conflict among the various countries in which we operate, which has resulted in greater compliance risk and cost for us. Any failure or perceived failure by us, or any third parties with which we do business, to comply with our posted privacy policies, changing consumer expectations, evolving laws, rules and regulations, industry standards, or contractual obligations to which we or such third parties are or may become subject, may result in actions or other claims against us by governmental entities or private actors, the expenditure of substantial costs, time and other resources or the incurrence of significant fines, penalties or other liabilities. In addition, any such action, particularly to the extent we were found to be guilty of violations or otherwise liable for damages, could damage our reputation and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. In addition, our liability insurance, which includes cyber insurance, might not be sufficient in type or amount to cover us against claims related to security incidents, cyberattacks and other related incidents.

We depend on our management team and the loss of any member could adversely affect our operations.
Our success is dependent on the management and leadership skills of our management team, including our senior team. The loss of any of these individuals or an inability to attract, retain, and maintain additional personnel, especially in a post-COVID job market, could prevent us from implementing our business strategy. We cannot assure you that we will be able to retain our existing management personnel or to attract additional qualified personnel when needed.



Item 1B.    Unresolved Staff Comments 

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Item 2.        Properties
 
We maintain our corporate headquarters in Buffalo, New York (an owned property) and, as of March 31, 2022, conducted our principal manufacturing at the following facilities:
LocationProducts/OperationsSquare
Footage
Owned or
Leased
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Künzelsau, Germany
Hoists345,000 Leased
2Wadesboro, NCHoists180,000 Owned
3Lexington, TNChain164,000 Owned
4Charlotte, NCActuators and Rotary Unions146,000 Leased
5Menomonee Falls, WIPower control systems144,000 Leased
Tennessee forging operation:
6Chattanooga, TNForged attachments81,000 Owned
7Chattanooga, TNForged attachments59,000 Owned
8Hartland, WIPrecision Conveyors125,000 Leased
9Wuppertal, GermanyHoists124,000 Leased
10Kissing, GermanyHoists, winches, and actuators107,000 Leased
11Damascus, VAHoists97,000 Owned
12Hangzhou, ChinaHoists82,000 Owned
13Brighton, MIOverhead light rail workstations71,000 Leased
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Hammonton, NJ
Accumulation Tables58,000 Leased
15Chester, EnglandPlate clamps56,000 Owned
16Santiago Tianguistenco, MexicoHoists54,000 Owned
17Bayan Lepas, MalaysiaPrecision Conveyors40,000 Leased
18Jülich, GermanyPrecision Conveyors29,000 Owned
19Szekesfehervar, HungaryTextiles and textile strappings24,000 Leased
20Zapopan, MexicoPrecision Conveyors20,000 Leased

In addition, we have a total of 48 sales offices, distribution centers, and warehouses.  We believe that our properties have been adequately maintained, are in generally good condition and are suitable for our business as presently conducted. We also believe our existing facilities provide sufficient production capacity for our present needs and for our anticipated needs in the foreseeable future. Upon the expiration of our current leases, we believe that either we will be able to secure renewal terms or enter into leases for alternative locations at market terms.




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Item 3.        Legal Proceedings
 
From time to time, we are named a defendant in legal actions arising out of the normal course of business. We are not a party to any pending legal proceeding other than ordinary, routine litigation incidental to our business. We do not believe that any of our pending litigation will have a material impact on our business. We maintain comprehensive general product liability insurance against risks arising out of the use of our products sold to customers through our wholly owned New York State captive insurance subsidiary of which we are the sole policy holder.  The per occurrence limits on the self-insurance for general and product liability coverage were $2,000,000 from inception through fiscal 2003 and $3,000,000 for fiscal 2004 and thereafter. In addition to the per occurrence limits, our coverage is also subject to an annual aggregate limit, applicable to losses only. These limits range from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 for each policy year from inception through fiscal 2022. We obtain additional insurance coverage from independent insurers to cover potential losses in excess of these limits.

Like many industrial manufacturers, we are also involved in asbestos-related litigation. In continually evaluating costs relating to our estimated asbestos-related liability, we review, among other things, the incidence of past and recent claims, the historical case dismissal rate, the mix of the claimed illnesses and occupations of the plaintiffs, our recent and historical resolution of the cases, the number of cases pending against us, the status and results of broad-based settlement discussions, and the number of years such activity might continue. Because this liability is likely to extend over many years, management believes that the potential additional costs for claims will not have a material effect on the financial condition of the Company or its liquidity, although the effect of any future liabilities recorded could be material to earnings in a future period. 

See Note 16 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K for more information on our matters involving litigation.


Item 4.        Mine Safety Disclosures.

Not Applicable.    
 



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PART II


Item 5.        Market for the Company’s Common Stock and Related Security Holder Matters

Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ‘‘CMCO.” As of April 30, 2022, there were 329 holders of record of our common stock.

During fiscal 2022, the Company declared quarterly cash dividends totaling $7,119,000. On March 21, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.07 per common share. The dividend was paid on May 16, 2022 to shareholders of record as of May 6, 2022 and totaled approximately $2,000,000.

Our current credit agreement allows for the declaration and payment of dividends, subject to specified limitation as set forth in our credit agreement. 


PERFORMANCE GRAPH

The Performance Graph shown below compares the cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock based on its market price, with the total return of the S&P SmallCap 600 Index, and the Dow Jones U.S. Diversified Industrials Index.  The comparison of total return assumes that a fixed investment of $100 was invested on March 31, 2017 in our common stock and in each of the foregoing indices and further assumes the reinvestment of dividends.  The stock price performance shown on the graph is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.


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Item 6.        Reserved.





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Item 7.        Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and Financial Condition

This section should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW

The Company is a leading worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of intelligent motion solutions, including motion control products, technologies, automated systems and services, that efficiently and ergonomically move, lift, position and secure materials. Our key products include hoists, crane components, precision conveyors, actuators, rigging tools, light rail workstations, and digital power and motion control systems. These are highly relevant, professional-grade solutions that solve customers’ critical material handling requirements.

Founded in 1875, we have grown to our current size and leadership position through organic growth and acquisitions. We developed our leading market position over our 147-year history by emphasizing technological innovation, manufacturing excellence and superior customer service. In addition, acquisitions significantly broadened our product lines and services and expanded our geographic reach, end-user markets and customer base. In accordance with our Blueprint for Growth 2.0 Strategy, we are simplifying the business utilizing our 80/20 process, improving our operational excellence, and ramping the growth engine by investing in new product development and a digital platform to grow profitably. We believe shareholder value will be enhanced by expanding EBITDA margins and return on invested capital ("ROIC").

Our revenue base is geographically diverse with approximately 41% derived from customers outside the U.S. for the year ended March 31, 2022. We believe this diversity balances the impact of changes that occur in local economies, as well as benefits the Company by providing access to growing emerging markets. We monitor both U.S. and Eurozone Industrial Capacity Utilization statistics as well as the ISM Production Index as indicators of anticipated demand for our products. In addition, we continue to monitor the potential impact of other global and U.S. trends including, industrial production, trade tariffs, raw material cost inflation, interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, and activity of end-user markets around the globe.

From a strategic perspective, we are investing in new products as we focus on our greatest opportunities for growth. We maintain a strong North American market share with significant leading market positions in hoists, lifting and sling chain, forged attachments, actuators, and digital power and motion control systems for the material handling industry. We seek to maintain and enhance our market share by focusing our sales and marketing activities toward select North American and global market sectors including general industrial, energy, automotive, heavy OEM, entertainment, and construction and infrastructure.

In March 2021, the Company announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dorner. The acquisition of Dorner closed on April 7, 2021. Dorner, headquartered in Hartland, Wisconsin, is a leading automation solutions company providing unique, patented technologies in the design, application, manufacturing and integration of high-precision conveying systems. Dorner is a leading supplier to the stable life sciences, food processing, and consumer packaged goods markets as well as the high growth industrial automation and e-commerce sectors. The addition of Dorner provides attractive complementary adjacencies including sortation and asynchronous conveyance systems.

Further, on December 1, 2021, the Company completed its acquisition of Garvey. Garvey is a leading accumulation systems solutions company providing unique, patented systems for the automation of production processes whose products complement those of Dorner. The acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey accelerate the Company’s shift to intelligent motion and serve as a platform to expand capabilities in advanced, higher technology automation solutions.

Regardless of the economic climate and point in the economic cycle, we constantly explore ways to increase operating margins as well as further improve our productivity and competitiveness. We have specific initiatives to reduce quote lead-times, improve on-time deliveries, reduce warranty costs, and improve material and factory productivity. The initiatives are being driven by the implementation of our business operating system, CMBS. We are working to achieve these strategic initiatives through business simplification, operational excellence, and profitable growth initiatives. We believe these initiatives will enhance future operating margins.

Our principal raw materials and components purchases were approximately $368 million in fiscal 2022 (or 62% of Cost of product sold) and include steel, consisting of rod, wire, bar, structural, and other forms of steel; electric motors; bearings; gear reducers; castings; steel and aluminum enclosures and wire harnesses; electro-mechanical components; and standard variable drives and controls. These commodities are all available from multiple sources. We purchase most of these raw materials and components from a limited number of strategic and preferred suppliers under agreements which are negotiated on a company-wide basis through our global purchasing group. Currently, as a result of global supply chain challenges, we are experiencing higher raw material costs and availability issues for select raw materials and components. To date, we have raised prices to our


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customers to cover these increased raw material costs and are working with our supply base to prioritize shipments and improve availability of key components.

We operate in a highly competitive and global business environment. The Company is moving from its past as an industrial company to a top-tier intelligent motion company. We have refocused our Company on faster growing markets as demonstrated by the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions. We are benefiting from increased trends for safety, industrial automation, manufacturing on-shoring and workforce productivity initiatives. Our long-term growth strategy is supported by our strong free cash flow as well as our liquidity position and flexible debt structure.

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion is a comparison between fiscal 2022 and fiscal 2021 results. For a discussion of our results of operations for fiscal 2021 compared to fiscal 2020, please refer to Item 7 of Part II, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on May 26, 2021.

Fiscal 2022 Compared to 2021

Fiscal 2022 sales were $906,555,000, an increase of 39.5%, or $256,913,000 compared with fiscal 2021 sales of $649,642,000. Sales for the fiscal year were positively impacted by $144,587,000 of incremental sales from the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions as well as increased sales volume of $89,955,000 and price increases of $20,002,000.  Favorable foreign currency translation also increased sales by $2,369,000.

Gross profit was $315,730,000 and $220,225,000 or 34.8% and 33.9% of net sales in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively.  The fiscal 2022 increase in gross profit of $95,505,000 or 43.4% is the result of the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions, which added $53,627,000 of gross profit net of acquisition related costs, $30,746,00 in higher sales volume, $10,551,000 in higher productivity net of other manufacturing cost increases, $5,953,000 of price increases net of material inflation and $2,671,000 in prior year factory closure costs which did not recur. These increases were offset by $3,045,000 in increased product liability costs, $2,627,000 in increased tariffs costs, $2,189,000 from a gain recorded in the prior year for a building sold in China classified as Cost of products sold that did not recur, and $776,000 in increased severance costs in fiscal 2022. The translation of foreign currencies had a $594,000 favorable impact on gross profit for the year ended March 31, 2022.

Selling expenses were $99,187,000 and $76,907,000, or 10.9% and 11.8% of net sales in fiscal years 2022 and 2021. Selling expense increased $15,161,000 as a result of the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions. The remaining increase is due to variable selling costs as the Company continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Foreign currency translation had a $304,000 unfavorable impact on selling expenses.
 
General and administrative expenses were $102,128,000 and $76,035,000 or 11.3% and 11.7% of net sales in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. The increase is primarily due to the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions adding $10,596,000 of ongoing general and administrative costs and $5,625,000 of acquisition deal costs. In addition, general and administrative costs increased $4,868,000 due to higher incentive compensation and stock based compensation expense. Foreign currency translation had a $238,000 unfavorable impact on general and administrative expenses.

Research and development expenses were $15,351,000 and $12,405,000 in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. As a percentage of consolidated net sales, research and development expenses were 1.7% and 1.9% in fiscal 2022 and 2021. The increase in research and development expenses is primarily due to $1,722,000 of acquisition and acquisition related costs and $456,000 in higher incentive compensation and stock based compensation expense. Foreign currency translation had a $15,000 unfavorable impact on research and development expenses.

Amortization of intangibles were $25,283,000 and $12,623,000 in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively, with the increase related to new intangible assets recorded from the Dorner and Garvey acquisition.
Interest and debt expense was $20,126,000 and $12,081,000 in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. The increase is related to higher interest rates as well as higher average borrowing outstanding as a result of the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions.

The Company incurred $14,803,000 in Cost of debt refinancing in fiscal 2022 as a result of the Dorner acquisition and related refinancing as described in Note 12 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements. There were no similar expenses incurred in fiscal 2021.


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Investment income of $46,000 and $1,693,000, in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively, related to earnings on marketable securities held in the Company’s wholly owned captive insurance subsidiary and the Company's equity method investment in EMC, described in Note 7 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements.

Foreign currency exchange resulted in a loss of $1,574,000 and $941,000 in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively, as a result of foreign currency volatility related to foreign currency denominated sales and purchases and intercompany debt.

Other income was $1,122,000 in fiscal 2022 and other expense was $20,850,000 in fiscal 2021. The decrease in expense is primarily related to a $19,038,000 settlement charge as a result of the termination of one of the Company's U.S. pension plans in fiscal 2021 as described in Note 13 to our March 31, 2022 consolidated financial statements.

Income tax expense as a percentage of income from continuing operations before income tax expense was 22.9% and 9.6% in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. Typically these percentages vary from the U.S. statutory rate of 21% due to varying effective tax rates at the Company's foreign subsidiaries and the jurisdictional mix of income for these subsidiaries. In fiscal 2021 the tax rate was primarily reduced by 6.9 percentage points primarily due to federal tax credits including research and development tax credits.


LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash totaled $115,640,000 and $202,377,000, at March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
 
Cash flow from operating activities

Net cash provided by operating activities was $48,881,000 and $98,890,000 in fiscal 2022, and 2021, respectively. In fiscal 2022, net income of $29,660,000 and non-cash adjustments to net income of $76,266,000 were the largest contributors. Of the non-cash adjustments, $41,924,000 was Depreciation and amortization and $14,803,000 was Cost of debt refinancing as a result of the Dorner acquisition. Net working capital increases reduced operating cash flows by $45,859,000, which included an increase of $40,201,000 in inventories as the Company increased inventory due to current supply chain constraints and an increase in trade accounts receivable of $18,988,000 attributable to strong fourth quarter sales. This was partially offset by an increase in trade accounts payable of $12,681,000. In addition non-current liabilities decreased by $11,211,000. The decrease in non-current liabilities primarily consists of $9,059,000 in cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of operating lease liabilities for fiscal 2022.

Cash flow from investing activities

Net cash used for investing activities was $554,311,000 and $5,548,000 in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. In fiscal 2022, the most significant use of cash in investing activities was $539,778,000 to purchase Dorner and Garvey, net of cash acquired, as well as $13,104,000 in capital expenditures.

Cash flow from by financing activities

Net cash provided by (used for) financing activities was $420,700,000 and $(10,189,000) in fiscal 2022 and 2021, respectively. In fiscal 2022, the most significant sources of cash were $725,000,000 in gross proceeds from the issuance of long term debt and $207,000,000 in gross proceeds from an equity offering, which were used to fund the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions. These sources of cash were offset by $477,846,000 in repayments of debt, $26,184,000 in fees related to the debt and equity offering, and dividends paid in the amount of $6,562,000. As noted in Note 8 of the financial statements, during the second quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company modified its cross currency swap and interest rate swap. As such, the associated cash flows from hedging activities are classified as financing activities in the Statement of Cash Flows, which resulted in a net cash outflow of $789,000.

We believe that our cash on hand, cash flows, and borrowing capacity under our new First Lien Facility will be sufficient to fund our ongoing operations and debt obligations, and capital expenditures for at least the next twelve months. This belief is dependent upon successful execution of our current business plan and effective working capital utilization. No material restrictions exist in accessing cash held by our non-U.S. subsidiaries. Additionally we expect to meet our U.S. funding needs without repatriating non-U.S. cash and incurring incremental U.S. taxes.  As of March 31, 2022, $75,284,000 of cash and cash equivalents were held by foreign subsidiaries.

On January 31, 2017 the Company entered into a Credit Agreement ("Credit Agreement") and $545,000,000 of debt facilities ("Facilities") in connection with the STAHL acquisition. The Facilities consist of a Revolving Facility ("Revolver") in the


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amount of $100,000,000 and a $445,000,000 1st Lien Term Loan ("Term Loan"). The Term Loan has a seven-year term maturing in 2024. On August 26, 2020, the Company entered into a Second Amendment to the Credit Agreement (as amended by the First Amended Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2018). The Second Amended Credit Agreement extended the $100,000,000 secured Revolver which was originally set to expire on January 31, 2022 to August 25, 2023.

As discussed in Note 3, the Company completed its acquisition of Dorner on April 7, 2021 and entered into a $750,000,000 First Lien Facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Capital Markets LLC, and Wells Fargo Securities LLC. The First Lien Facilities consist of a Revolving Facility in an aggregate amount of $100,000,000 and a $650,000,000 Bridge Facility. Proceeds from the Bridge Facility were used, among other things, to finance the purchase price for the Dorner acquisition, pay related fees, expenses and transaction costs, and refinance the Company's borrowings under its prior Term Loan and Revolver.

In addition to the debt borrowing described above, the Company commenced and completed an underwritten public offering of 4,312,500 shares of its common stock at a price of $48.00 per share for total gross proceeds of $207,000,000. The Company used all of the net proceeds from the equity offering to repay part of its outstanding borrowings under its Bridge Facility. The equity offering closed on May 4, 2021. Following the repayment of outstanding borrowings under the Bridge Facility, the Bridge Facility was refinanced with a syndicated Term Loan B facility on May 14, 2021.

The key terms of the Term Loan B facility are as follows:

1) Term Loan B: An aggregate $450,000,000 Term Loan B facility, which requires quarterly principal amortization of 0.25% with the remaining principal due at the maturity date. In addition, if the Company has Excess Cash Flow (ECF) as defined in the Credit Agreement for the First Lien Facility (the “Credit Agreement”), the ECF Percentage of the Excess Cash Flow for each fiscal year minus optional prepayments of the Loans (except prepayments of Revolving Loans that are not accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction of Revolving Commitments) pursuant to Section 2.10(a) of the Credit Agreement other than to the extent that any such prepayment is funded with the proceeds of Funded Debt, shall be applied toward the prepayment of the Term Loan B facility. The ECF Percentage is defined as 50% stepping down to 25% or 0% based on the achievement of specified Secured Leverage Ratios as of the last day of such fiscal year. Further, the Company may draw additional Incremental Facilities (referred to as an "Accordion") by executing and delivering to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. an Increased Facility Activation Notice specifying the amount of such increase requested. Lenders shall have no obligation to participate in any increase unless they agree to do so in their sole discretion.

2) Revolver: An aggregate $100,000,000 secured revolving facility which includes sublimits for the issuance of standby letters of credit, swingline loans and multi-currency borrowings in certain specified foreign currencies.

3) Fees and Interest Rates: Commitment fees and interest rates are determined on the basis of either a Eurocurrency rate or a Base rate plus an applicable margin, which is based upon the Company's Total Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement) in the case of Revolver loans.

4) Prepayments: Provisions permitting a Borrower to voluntarily prepay either the Term Loan B facility or Revolver in whole or in part at any time, and provisions requiring certain mandatory prepayments of the Term Loan B facility or Revolver on the occurrence of certain events which will permanently reduce the commitments under the Credit Agreement, each without premium or penalty, subject to reimbursement of certain costs of the Lenders.

5) Covenants: Provisions containing covenants required of the Company and its subsidiaries including various affirmative and negative financial and operational covenants. The key financial covenant is triggered only on any date when any Extension of Credit under the New Revolving Credit Facility is outstanding (excluding any Letters of Credit) (the “Covenant Trigger”), and prohibits the Total Leverage Ratio for the Reference Period ended on such date from exceeding (i) 6.75:1.00 as of any date of determination prior to June 30, 2021, (ii) 5.50:1.00 as of any date of determination on June 30, 2021 and thereafter but prior to June 30, 2022, (iii) 4.50:1.00 as of any date of determination on June 30, 2022 and thereafter but prior to June 30, 2023 and (iv) 3.50:1.00 as of any date of determination on June 30, 2023 and thereafter.

6) Collateral: Obligations under the First Lien Facilities are secured by liens on substantially all assets of the Company and its material domestic subsidiaries.

In fiscal 2022, the Company incurred $14,803,000 in debt extinguishment costs of which $5,946,000 relates to the Company's prior Term Loan, $326,000 relates to the Company's prior Revolver, and $8,531,000 relates to fees paid on the portion of the First Lien Facilities that were associated with the Bridge Facility, all of which were incurred in the first quarter of fiscal 2022. These costs are classified as Cost of debt refinancing in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.



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Further, in the first quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company recorded $5,432,000 in deferred financing costs on the First Lien Term Facility, which will be amortized over seven years. The Company recorded $4,027,000 in deferred financings costs on the New Revolving Credit Facility, of which $3,050,000 is related to the New Revolving Credit Facility and $977,000 is carried over from the Company's prior Revolver as certain Revolver lenders increased their borrowing capacity. These balances will be amortized over five years and are classified in Other assets since no funds were drawn on the New Revolving Credit Facility.

Also discussed in Note 3, the Company completed its acquisition of Garvey on November 30, 2021 and borrowed additional funds in accordance with the Accordion feature under its existing Term Loan B to increase the principal amount of the Term Loan B facility by $75,000,000. Proceeds from the Accordion were used, among other things, to finance the purchase price for the Garvey acquisition, pay related fees, expenses, and transaction costs. No material amendment to the terms of the Term Loan B facility or the First Lien Facility was necessary for the Company to exercise this Accordion feature.

In the third quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company recorded $892,000 in deferred financing costs on the Accordion, which will be amortized over the remaining life of the Term Loan B.

The outstanding principal balance of the Term Loan B facility was $502,560,000 as of March 31, 2022, which includes $75,000,000 in principal balance from the Accordion exercised in the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and the outstanding balance of the Term Loan was $254,900,000 as of March 31, 2021. The Company made $22,440,000 of principal payment on the Term Loan B during fiscal 2022 and $4,450,000 of principal payment on the Term Loan during fiscal 2021. The Company is obligated to make $5,260,000 of principal payments on the Term Loan B facility over the next 12 months plus applicable ECF payments, if required, however, plans to pay down approximately $40,000,000 in principal payments in total during such 12 month period. This amount has been recorded within the current portion of long term debt on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet with the remaining balance recorded as long term debt.

There were no outstanding borrowings and $17,151,000 outstanding letters of credit issued against the New Revolving Credit Facility as of March 31, 2022. The outstanding letters of credit at March 31, 2022 consisted of $849,000 in commercial letters of credit and $16,302,000 of standby letters of credit.

The gross balance of deferred financing costs on the Term Loan B facility was $6,323,000, which includes $892,000 from the Accordion exercise, as of March 31, 2022, and $14,690,000 on the prior Term Loan as of March 31, 2021, respectively. The accumulated amortization balances were $898,000 and $8,744,000 as of March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.

The gross balance of deferred financing costs associated with the New Revolving Credit Facility was $4,027,000 as of March 31, 2022 and the prior Revolver was $3,615,000 as of March 31, 2021, which are included in Other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. The accumulated amortization balance is $805,000 and $2,313,000 as of March 31, 2022 and March 31, 2021, respectively.  

In connection with Dorner acquisition, the Company recorded a finance lease for a manufacturing facility in Hartland, WI under a 23 year lease agreement which terminates in 2035. The outstanding balance on the finance lease obligation is $14,084,000 as of March 31, 2022 of which $544,000 has been recorded within the Current portion of long term debt and the remaining balance recorded within Term loan and finance lease obligations on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. See Note 18, Leases, for further details.

Non-U.S. Lines of Credit and Loans

Unsecured and uncommitted lines of credit are available to meet short-term working capital needs for certain of our subsidiaries operating outside of the U.S. The lines of credit are available on an offering basis, meaning that transactions under the line of credit will be on such terms and conditions, including interest rate, maturity, representations, covenants, and events of default, as mutually agreed between our subsidiaries and the local bank at the time of each specific transaction. As of March 31, 2022, unsecured credit lines totaled approximately $2,434,000, of which $0 was drawn. In addition, unsecured lines of $12,503,000 were available for bank guarantees issued in the normal course of business of which $9,135,000 was utilized.

CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

In addition to keeping our current equipment and plants properly maintained, we are committed to replacing, enhancing and upgrading our property, plant and equipment to support new product development, improve productivity and customer responsiveness, reduce production costs, increase flexibility to respond effectively to market fluctuations and changes, meet environmental requirements, enhance safety and promote ergonomically correct work stations. Our capital expenditures for fiscal 2022 and 2021 were $13,104,000 and $12,300,000, respectively. Excluded from fiscal 2022 capital expenditures is


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$329,000 and $730,000, in property, plant and equipment purchases included in accounts payable at March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. We expect capital expenditure spending in fiscal 2023 to range from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000.

INFLATION AND OTHER MARKET CONDITIONS

Our costs are affected by inflation in the U.S. economy and, to a lesser extent, in non-U.S. economies including those of Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Asia-Pacific. We do not believe that general inflation has had a material effect on our results of operations over the periods presented despite rising inflation due to our ability to pass on rising costs through price increases. We are currently experiencing higher raw material, freight, and logistics costs than we have seen in recent years, which we have been able to recover with pricing actions. In the future, we may not be able to pass on these cost increases to our customers.  

SEASONALITY AND QUARTERLY RESULTS

Quarterly results may be materially affected by the timing of large customer orders, periods of high vacation and holiday concentrations, legal settlements, gains or losses in our portfolio of marketable securities, restructuring charges, favorable or unfavorable foreign currency translation, divestitures and acquisitions. Therefore, the operating results for any particular fiscal quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any subsequent fiscal quarter or for the full fiscal year.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES AND ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes. We continually evaluate the estimates and their underlying assumptions, which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of our assets and liabilities. Actual results inevitably will differ from those estimates. If interpreted differently under different conditions or circumstances, changes in our estimates could result in material changes to our reported results.  We have identified below the accounting policies involving estimates that are critical to our financial statements. Other accounting policies are more fully described in Note 2 of our consolidated financial statements.

Insurance Reserves.  Our accrued general and product liability reserves as described in Note 16 to consolidated financial statements involve actuarial techniques including the methods selected to estimate ultimate claims, and assumptions including emergence patterns, payment patterns, initial expected losses, and increased limit factors. These actuarial estimates are subject to a high degree of uncertainty due to a variety of factors, including extended lag time in the reporting and resolution of claims, trends or changes in claim settlement patterns, insurance industry practices, and legal interpretations. Changes to these estimates could result in material changes to the amount of expense and liabilities recorded in our financial statements. Further, actual costs could differ significantly from the estimated amounts.  Adjustments to estimated reserves are recorded in the period in which the change in estimate occurs.  Other insurance reserves such as workers compensation and group health insurance are based on actual historical and current claim data provided by third party administrators or internally maintained.

Goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible asset impairment testing.  Our goodwill balance of $648,849,000 as of March 31, 2022 is subject to impairment testing. We test goodwill for impairment at least annually, as of the end of February, and more frequently whenever events occur or circumstances change that indicate there may be impairment. These events or circumstances could include a significant long-term adverse change in the business climate, poor indicators of operating performance, or a sale or disposition of a significant portion of a reporting unit.

We test goodwill at the reporting unit level, which is one level below our operating segment. We identify our reporting units by assessing whether the components of our operating segment constitute businesses for which discrete financial information is available and segment management regularly reviews the operating results of those components. We also aggregate components that have similar economic characteristics into single reporting units (for example, similar products and / or services, similar long-term financial results, product processes, classes of customers, or in circumstances where the components share assets or other resources and have other economic interdependencies). We have three reporting units, Duff-Norton, Rest of Products and Precision Conveyance, and have goodwill totaling $9,699,000, $310,793,000, and $328,357,000, respectively, at March 31, 2022. The Precision Conveyance group is new in fiscal 2022 with the acquisitions of Dorner and Garvey (refer to Note 3).

Annual Goodwill Impairment Test

When we evaluate the potential for goodwill impairment, we assess a range of qualitative factors including, but not limited to, macroeconomic conditions, industry conditions, the competitive environment, changes in the market for our products and services, regulatory and political developments, entity specific factors such as strategy, and changes in key personnel and


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overall financial performance. If, after completing this assessment, it is determined that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value, we proceed to a quantitative impairment test. We also proceed to the quantitative model when economic or other business factors indicate that the fair value of our reporting units may have declined since our last quantitative test. We performed the qualitative assessment as of February 28, 2022 and determined that it was not more likely than not that the fair value of each of our reporting units was less than that its applicable carrying value. Accordingly, we did not perform the quantitative goodwill impairment test for any of our reporting units during fiscal 2022.

We further test our indefinite-lived intangible asset balance of $46,721,000 consisting of trademarks for acquisitions prior to fiscal 2022. Similar to goodwill, we first assess various qualitative factors in the analysis. If, after completing this assessment, it is determined that it is more likely than not that the fair value of an indefinite-lived intangible asset is less than its carrying value, we proceed to a quantitative impairment test. We performed the qualitative assessment as of February 28, 2022 and determined that it was not more likely than not that the fair value of each of our indefinite-lived intangible assets was less than that its applicable carrying value.

Purchase Price Allocations for Business Combinations. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2022, we completed two business combination for a total purchase price of $548,743,000. Under purchase accounting, we recorded assets and liabilities at fair value as of the acquisition dates. We identified and assigned value to trademarks and trade names, customer relationships, favorable supply agreements, backlog, and technology. We estimated the useful lives over which these intangible assets would be amortized. Valuations of these assets were performed largely using discounted cash flow models and estimates of replacement cost. These valuations support the conclusion that identifiable intangible assets had a preliminary value of $211,350,000. The resulting goodwill was $328,357,000.

Assigning value to intangible assets requires estimates used in projecting relevant future cash flows and estimates of replacement costs, in addition to estimating useful lives of such assets. Further estimates include an attrition rate for customer relationships, royalty rates for technology, trademarks, and patents, and a weighted average cost of capital assumption.

Effects of New Accounting Pronouncements

Information regarding the effects of new accounting pronouncements is included in Note 21 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements included in Item 8 of this Form 10-K.


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Item 7A.    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
 
Market risk is the potential loss arising from adverse changes in market rates and prices, such as interest rates. We are exposed to various market risks, including commodity prices for raw materials, foreign currency exchange rates, and changes in interest rates. We may enter into financial instrument transactions, which attempt to manage and reduce the impact of such changes. We do not enter into derivatives or other financial instruments for trading or speculative purposes.

Our costs are affected by inflation in the U.S. economy and, to a lesser extent, in non-U.S. economies including those of Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Asia-Pacific. Generally, as we experience fluctuations in our costs, we reflect these increases in costs as price increases to our customers with the goal of being margin neutral. Currently, as a result of supply chain challenges, we are experiencing higher raw material costs. Further, increases in U.S. employee benefits costs such as health insurance and workers compensation insurance have exceeded general inflation levels. In the future, we may be further affected by inflation that we may not be able to pass these increased costs on as price increases to our customers. However, we have been successful in the past, and we expect to be successful in the future, in instituting price increases to pass on these material cost increases. The Company is exposed to trade tariffs with China. The Company monitors the impact of tariffs and actively works to mitigate this impact through material productivity actions and pricing strategies.

We have been, and may continue in future periods to be, materially and adversely impacted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to global macroeconomic effects, the COVID-19 pandemic and any other related adverse public health developments have caused, and are expected to continue to cause, disruption to both our domestic and international operations and sales activities. The continued operation of our facilities is subject to local laws and regulations. While all of our facilities have been deemed essential under applicable law, there is no guarantee this will continue. Although we have thus far had no significant operating disruptions due to the pandemic, like all companies, the apparent increased contagiousness of the Omicron variant and subsequent variants poses risk to the availability of our workforce. Our third-party manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, sub-contractors and customers have been, and may in the future continue to be, disrupted by worker absenteeism, quarantines and restrictions on their employees’ ability to work, office and factory closures, disruptions to ports and other shipping infrastructure, border closures, and other travel or health-related restrictions. Depending on the magnitude of such effects on our manufacturing operations or the operations of our suppliers, third-party distributors, or sub-contractors, our supply chain, manufacturing and product shipments have been, and in the future may continue to be, delayed, which could adversely affect our business, operations, and customer relationships. In addition, COVID-19 or other disease outbreaks have in the short-run and may over the longer term adversely affect the economies and financial markets of many countries and have caused inflationary pressures in the U.S. and elsewhere, which could result in an economic downturn that could affect demand for our products and impact our operating results. There can be no assurance that any decrease in sales resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic will be offset by increased sales in subsequent periods. Although the magnitude of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and operations remains uncertain, the continued spread of the COVID-19 or the occurrence of other epidemics and the imposition of related public health measures and travel and business restrictions has, and may in the future continue to, adversely impact our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.

In fiscal 2022, 41% of our net sales were from manufacturing plants and sales offices in foreign jurisdictions. We manufacture our products in the United States, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Hungary, Mexico, and Malaysia and sell our products in over 100 countries. Our results of operations could be affected by factors such as changes in foreign currency rates or weak economic conditions in foreign markets. With our fiscal year 2017 acquisition of STAHL, we have an increased presence in the United Arab Emirates, with total assets of approximately $4,800,000. Our operating results are exposed to fluctuations between the U.S. Dollar and the Canadian Dollar, European currencies, the South African Rand, the Mexican Peso, the Brazilian Real, and the Chinese Yuan. For example, when the U.S. dollar weakens against the Euro, the value of our net sales and net income denominated in Euros increases when translated into U.S. dollars for inclusion in our consolidated results. We are also exposed to foreign currency fluctuations in relation to purchases denominated in foreign currencies. Our foreign currency risk is mitigated since the majority of our foreign operations’ net sales and the related expense transactions are denominated in the same currency, which reduces the impact of a significant change in foreign exchange rates on net income.  For example, a 10% change in the value of the U.S. dollar in relation to our most significant foreign currency exposures would have had an impact of approximately $4,200,000 on our income from operations. In addition, the majority of our export sale transactions are denominated in U.S. dollars. We believe that our exposure to the Russia and Ukraine conflict is not significant, as our entity in Russia had income from operations of $400,000 in fiscal year 2022 and had total assets of approximately $1,000,000 as of March 31, 2022.

The Company has a cross currency swap agreement that is designated as a cash flow hedge to hedge changes in the value of an intercompany loan to a foreign subsidiary due to changes in foreign exchange rates. This intercompany loan is related to the acquisition of STAHL. As of March 31, 2022, the notional amount of this derivative was $137,650,000, and the contract matures on March 31, 2028. During fiscal 2022, the Company modified the cross currency swap by extending it to fiscal year 2028, matching the intercompany loan. The Company has concluded that the transaction to modify the cross currency swap, as


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well as the modified swap, maintained hedge accounting. The modified cross currency swap is considered to have an other than insignificant financing element. As such, its cash flows are classified within financing activities in the Statement of Cash Flows. From its March 31, 2022 balance of AOCL, the Company expects to reclassify approximately $128,000 out of AOCL, and into foreign currency exchange loss (gain), during the next 12 months based on the contractual payments due under this intercompany loan.

The Company has foreign currency forward agreements that are designated as cash flow hedges to hedge a portion of forecasted inventory purchases denominated in foreign currencies. As of March 31, 2022, the notional amount of these derivatives was $6,959,000, and all contracts mature by March 31, 2023. From its March 31, 2022 balance of AOCL, the Company expects to reclassify approximately $191,000 out of AOCL during the next 12 months based on the expected sales of the goods purchased.

The Company's policy is to maintain a capital structure that is comprised of 50-70% of fixed rate long-term debt and 30-50% of variable rate long-term debt. The Company has three interest rate swap agreements in which the Company receives interest at a variable rate and pays interest at a fixed rate. The third interest rate swap agreement was entered into in fiscal year 2022 as a result of the additional debt from the Dorner and Garvey acquisitions. These interest rate swap agreements are designated as cash flow hedges to hedge changes in interest expense due to changes in the variable interest rate of the senior secured term loan. The amortizing interest rate swaps mature by February 28, 2025 and had a total notional amount of $300,747,000 as of March 31, 2022. The effective portion of the changes in fair values of the interest rate swaps is reported in AOCL and will be reclassified to interest expense over the life of the swap agreements. From its March 31, 2022 balance of AOCL, the Company expects to reclassify approximately $389,000 out of AOCL, and into interest expense, during the next 12 months.


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Item 8.        Financial Statements and Supplemental Data.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
Columbus McKinnon Corporation

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements as of March 31, 2022:
 
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Columbus McKinnon Corporation

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Columbus McKinnon Corporation (the Company) as of March 31, 2022 and 2021, the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income, shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2022, and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(2) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at March 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended March 31, 2022, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of March 31, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated May 25, 2022, expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.










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Valuation of Goodwill
Description of the Matter
At March 31, 2022, the Company’s goodwill was $648.8 million. As discussed in Notes 2 and 9 of the consolidated financial statements, goodwill is qualitatively assessed and quantitatively tested, when necessary, for impairment at least annually at the reporting unit level. For its fiscal 2022 annual impairment test, the Company qualitatively tested goodwill impairment.

Auditing management's qualitative assessment for goodwill impairment was complex and highly judgmental due to the significant judgments required in evaluating whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount. In particular, the qualitative assessment requires management to assess the totality of events and circumstances such as macroeconomic conditions, industry and market conditions, overall financial performance, as well as other drivers of fair value and make judgments, on the basis of the weight of evidence, about the significance of all identified events and circumstances in the context of determining whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount.

How We Addressed the Matter in Our AuditWe obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s goodwill impairment review process. Our procedures included, among others, testing management’s review and assessment of the qualitative factors considered in its evaluation.

To test the Company’s qualitative assessment for goodwill impairment, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, inspecting the analysis prepared by management and evaluating the evidence gathered by management in support of its assessment of the events and circumstances discussed above. We considered the results of management’s most recent quantitative test as well as events that have occurred since that test was performed. We compared forecasts utilized by management in its most recent quantitative test to actual results. We inspected and analyzed other third-party evidence about, among other things, macroeconomic conditions and their expected trends, long-term growth rates, as well as industry and market conditions and their expected trends. We evaluated the evidence of these conditions and trends that had been gathered by management by agreeing the financial data presented by management to underlying financial records, as well as comparing market conditions and expected trends to economic and industry data. We also inspected evidence about other relevant entity-specific events such as changes in management, key personnel, strategy, or customers, or litigation and qualitatively assessed the impact of those events on the fair value of the Company’s reporting units.

In addition, we analyzed trends in the Company’s stock price to identify changes in the indicated fair value of the Company and compared the Company’s stock quotes to quoted market price from other independent sources, and we analyzed the Company’s weighted average cost of capital and compared it to the weighted average cost of capital used by management in its most recent quantitative test.
Product Liabilities and Related Legal Costs
Description of the Matter
At March 31, 2022 the Company’s liability for asbestos-related product liability claims and related legal costs was $7.8 million. As discussed in Note 16 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company is involved in asbestos-related litigation the cost of which is paid through a wholly-owned captive insurance company.

Auditing management's estimate of its reserves for asbestos-related product liabilities is complex and highly judgmental due to the significant estimation and judgment required in determining the ultimate outcomes of the cases asserted against the Company and in determining the ultimate costs for the Company to defend against such claims. In particular, the estimated product liability reserve is sensitive to significant assumptions such as case dismissal rates, the number of years case activity might continue, legal and other costs to defend claims. The cost to defend claims takes into consideration the extent to which insurance carriers, under pre-existing insurance policies and pursuant to a legal settlement, are covering future indemnity payments and sharing in payment of future legal defense costs.


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How We Addressed the Matter in Our AuditWe obtained an understanding, evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s product liability estimation process. Our procedures included, among others, testing management’s review of significant assumptions used for purposes of calculating the estimated liability.

To test the estimated liability for asbestos-related product liability claims, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, testing the completeness and accuracy of the asbestos-related claims data underlying the estimated liability. We compared forecasts of legal defense costs and dismissal ratios utilized by management in prior year reserve estimates to actual defense costs incurred and the actual ratios of asbestos claims asserted to claims dismissed. We inspected analyses prepared by the Company to support the current forecasts of defense costs and dismissal ratios. We inspected correspondence from the Company’s internal counsel as to the number and status of outstanding claims asserted and correspondence from external counsel to evaluate the information provided by management. We involved a specialist to assist with our procedures and to develop an independent range of asbestos-related product liability reserves, which we compared to the Company’s recorded amount.
Accounting for Acquisitions
Description of the Matter
As discussed in Note 3 of the consolidated financial statements, during fiscal year 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of Dorner Mfg. Corp. (“Dorner”), for which the consideration was $481.0 million. The purchase price has been allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the date of acquisition. The excess consideration of $287.1 million has been recorded as goodwill as of March 31, 2022. The identifiable intangible assets acquired include customer relationships of $137.0 million, technology of $45.0 million, and trade names of $8.0 million.

Auditing the Company’s accounting for the acquisition involved subjective auditor judgement due to the significant estimation uncertainty in the Company’s determination of the fair values of the acquired intangible assets. The Company used discounted cash flow methods to estimate the fair value of acquired intangible assets. The significant assumptions used to estimate the value of the intangible assets included royalty rate, revenue growth rate, customer attrition rate, and discount rate. The significant assumptions related to estimating the fair value of the acquired intangible assets above are forward looking and could be affected by future economic market conditions.
How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit

We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over the Company’s accounting for the acquisition. Our audit procedures included, among others, testing controls over the valuation of acquired intangible assets, including the valuation models and underlying assumptions used to develop such estimates.

To test the fair value of the acquired intangible assets, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, evaluating the appropriateness of valuation methodologies, and testing the significant assumptions used in the models, as described above, including the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data. We compared the significant assumptions to current industry, market, and economic trends, to the historical results of the acquired business and to other guidelines companies within the same industry. We involved our valuation specialists to assist in our evaluation of the methodology and certain significant assumptions used by the Company.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since at least 1917, but we are unable to determine the specific year.
 
Buffalo, New York
May 25, 2022


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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
 
 March 31,
 20222021
 (In thousands, except share data)
ASSETS  
Current assets:  
Cash and cash equivalents$115,390 $202,127 
Trade accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts ($5,717 and $5,686, respectively)
147,515 105,464 
Inventories172,139 111,488 
Prepaid expenses and other31,545 22,763 
Total current assets466,589 441,842 
Net property, plant, and equipment97,926 74,753 
Goodwill648,849 331,176 
Other intangibles, net390,788 213,362 
Marketable securities10,294 7,968 
Deferred taxes on income2,313 20,080 
Other assets68,948 61,251 
Total assets$1,685,707 $1,150,432 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY 
Current liabilities: 
Trade accounts payable$90,881 $68,593 
Accrued liabilities118,187 110,816 
Current portion of long-term debt and finance lease obligations40,551 4,450 
Total current liabilities249,619 183,859 
Term loan and finance lease obligations470,675 244,504 
Other non-current liabilities192,610 191,920 
Total liabilities912,904 620,283 
Shareholders’ equity: 
Voting common stock: 50,000,000 shares authorized; 28,517,333 and 23,984,299 shares issued and outstanding
285 240 
Additional paid-in capital506,074 296,093 
Retained earnings316,343 293,802 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(49,899)(59,986)
Total shareholders’ equity772,803 530,149 
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity$1,685,707 $1,150,432 
 
See accompanying notes.


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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
 
 Year Ended March 31,
202220212020
 (In thousands, except per share data)
Net sales$906,555 $649,642 $809,162 
Cost of products sold590,825 429,417 525,976 
Gross profit315,730 220,225 283,186 
Selling expenses99,187 76,907 91,054 
General and administrative expenses102,128 76,035 77,880 
Research and development expenses15,351 12,405 11,310 
Net loss on sales of businesses, including impairment  176 
Amortization of intangibles25,283 12,623 12,942 
Income from operations73,781 42,255 89,824 
Interest and debt expense20,126 12,081 14,234 
Cost of debt refinancing14,803   
Investment (income) loss, net(46)(1,693)(891)
Foreign currency exchange loss (gain), net1,574 941 (1,514)
Other (income) expense, net(1,122)20,850 839 
Income before income tax expense38,446 10,076 77,156 
Income tax expense8,786 970 17,484 
Net income$29,660 $9,106 $59,672 
Average basic shares outstanding28,040 23,897 23,619 
Average diluted shares outstanding28,401 24,173 23,855 
Basic income per share$1.06 $0.38 $2.53 
Diluted income per share$1.04 $0.38 $2.50 
Dividends declared per common share$0.25 $0.24 $0.24 
 
See accompanying notes.


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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION
 
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
 March 31,
 202220212020
 (In thousands)
Net income$29,660 $9,106 $59,672 
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:  
Foreign currency translation adjustments(6,303)12,583 (9,004)
Pension liability adjustments, net of taxes of $(5,282), $(13,261) and $8,062
16,286 41,571 (24,051)
Other post retirement obligations adjustments, net of taxes of $48, $(12), and $(35)
(153)38 104 
Split-dollar life insurance arrangement adjustments, net of taxes of $(45), $(24), and $(17)
180 76 51 
Change in derivatives qualifying as hedges, net of taxes of $(39), $(8), and $(565)
77 96 1,602 
Total other comprehensive income (loss)10,087 54,364 (31,298)
Comprehensive income$39,747 $63,470 $28,374 
 
See accompanying notes.


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COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(In thousands, except share data)
 Common
Stock
($0.01 par value)
Additional
 Paid-in
Capital
Retained
Earnings
Accumulated
Other
 Comprehensive
 Loss
Total
Shareholders’
Equity
Balance at April 1, 2019$234 $277,518 $236,459 $(83,052)$431,159 
Net income 2020  59,672  59,672 
Dividends declared  (5,690) (5,690)
Change in foreign currency translation adjustment   (9,004)(9,004)
Change in derivatives qualifying as hedges, net of tax of $(565)
   1,602 1,602 
Change in pension liability and postretirement obligations, net of tax of $8,010
   (23,896)(23,896)
Stock compensation - directors 460   460 
Stock options exercised, 296,027 shares
3 5,997   6,000 
Stock compensation expense 4,047   4,047 
Restricted stock units released, 82,861 shares, net of shares withheld for minimum statutory tax obligation
1 (766)  (765)
Balance at March 31, 2020$238 $287,256 $290,441 $(114,350)$463,585 
Net income 2021  9,106  9,106 
Dividends declared  (5,745) (5,745)
Change in foreign currency translation adjustment   12,583 12,583 
Change in derivatives qualifying as hedges, net of tax of $(8)
   96 96 
Change in pension liability and postretirement obligations, net of tax of $(13,297)
   41,685 41,685 
Stock compensation - directors 540   540 
Stock options exercised, 97,398 shares
2 1,971   1,973 
Stock compensation expense 7,482   7,482 
Restricted stock units released, 115,281 shares, net of shares withheld for minimum statutory tax obligation
 (1,156)  (1,156)
Balance at March 31, 2021$240 $296,093 $293,802 $(59,986)$530,149 
Net income 2022  29,660  29,660 
Dividends declared  (7,119) (7,119)
Change in foreign currency translation adjustment   (6,302)(6,302)
Change in derivatives qualifying as hedges, net of tax of $(