{"id":525028,"date":"2026-07-14T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525028\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:00:11","slug":"skellerup-lifts-profit-forecast-on-strong-us-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525028\/","title":{"rendered":"Skellerup lifts profit forecast on strong US demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe US market is our largest, with robust demand for our products into potable water, wastewater, dairy, footwear and marine applications in the fourth quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">The seasonal peak for sales of dairy consumables in the New Zealand market has also been higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have navigated a period of significant uncertainty on the availability of key materials and whilst challenges remain, the risks around security of supply have receded somewhat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Lower US tariff costs and the weaker NZ dollar also contributed to the higher-than-expected fourth quarter earnings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Skellerup will report its results for the full 2026 year on August 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gngXgPCjmfo\" style=\"display:none\">Jamie Gray is an Auckland-based journalist, covering the financial markets, the primary sector and energy. He joined the Herald in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe US market is our largest, with robust demand for our products into potable water, wastewater, dairy, footwear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4765,17517,138,4190,5616,144306,4493,25619,13106,111,139,69,90,3383,5340,154794,72082,73395,9939,18835,9938,3040],"class_list":["post-525028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-annual","tag-because","tag-business","tag-demand","tag-forecast","tag-higherthanexpected","tag-increased","tag-lifts","tag-maker","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-products","tag-profit","tag-rubber","tag-skellerup","tag-specialised","tag-states","tag-strong","tag-united","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}