Shanghai Nar Industrial Co LtdNet profit dropped 60.4% due to absence of prior investment income, exchange losses, and higher costs.

NAR Shares has released its 2026 half-year report, with net profit attributable to the parent company at 45.49 million yuan, down 60.4% year-on-year. The company noted that in the first half of 2025 it booked investment income of over 33 million yuan from selling equity in an associate, and the absence of such income in 2026 was the most direct reason for the sharp profit decline. In addition, the appreciation of the yuan against the US dollar led to exchange losses, and rising upstream raw material prices pushed up costs. Gross margins in the company's traditional main businesses of digital printing materials and automotive functional films both fell, with the digital printing materials gross margin at 14.84%, down 1.02 percentage points year-on-year, and the automotive functional films gross margin down 2.14 percentage points year-on-year. To seek new growth drivers, the company invested in Shanghai LithPho Technology and established a controlled joint venture, Jiangxi NAR Lithium Battery Materials, focusing on the research, development, production and sales of porous carbon, a precursor for silicon-carbon anode materials. It is currently in trial production, with product samples being tested and validated by multiple customers. The company aims for new energy and other materials segments to account for over 20% of sales revenue by 2028.
Shanghai Nar Industrial Co LtdNet profit dropped 60.4% due to absence of prior investment income, exchange losses, and higher costs.
Controlled JV focusing on porous carbon for silicon-carbon anodes, in trial production.
Invested company developing porous carbon precursor for silicon-carbon anodes.