ANSA McAL Group has re­port­ed con­tin­ued rev­enue growth for the first nine months of 2026, with earn­ings boost­ed by strate­gic as­set sales even as the con­glom­er­ate faced high­er en­er­gy costs, for­eign ex­change con­straints and tem­po­rary pro­duc­tion dis­rup­tions across parts of its op­er­a­tions.

In its unau­dit­ed re­sults for the pe­ri­od end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2026, the group re­port­ed rev­enue of TT$5.777 bil­lion, up two per cent com­pared to the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2025. The group’s af­ter-tax prof­it for the pe­ri­od Jan­u­ary 1 to Sep­tem­ber 30, 2026, amount­ed to $413.87 mil­lion, a 4.4 per cent in­crease over the same pe­ri­od in 2025.

De­spite the im­proved bot­tom line, Ad­just­ed EBIT­DA from con­tin­u­ing op­er­a­tions de­clined by two per cent to $1.11 bil­lion from $1.14 bil­lion in 2025.

“The group’s earn­ings ben­e­fit­ed from non-re­cur­ring gains from the sale of a prop­er­ty in the Unit­ed States and the par­tial dis­pos­al of the group’s in­vest­ment in Roberts Man­u­fac­tur­ing in Bar­ba­dos.

“These gains were par­tial­ly off­set by one-off write-offs of cap­i­talised ex­pens­es re­lat­ed to re­fi­nanc­ing ac­tiv­i­ties,” the com­pa­ny al­so not­ed.

ANSA McAL said op­er­a­tions in T&T con­tin­ued to face chal­lenges from el­e­vat­ed nat­ur­al gas prices and on­go­ing for­eign ex­change con­straints.

The com­pa­ny al­so not­ed that planned rein­vest­ment ini­tia­tives tem­porar­i­ly af­fect­ed out­put in the group’s pack­ag­ing and chem­i­cals seg­ments, but were nec­es­sary to sup­port fu­ture growth.

“Planned rein­vest­ment in the group’s plants tem­porar­i­ly re­duced out­put in our pack­ag­ing and chem­i­cals op­er­a­tions.

The Carib Glass­works fur­nace re­build, now com­plete ahead of sched­ule and on bud­get, has re­stored crit­i­cal pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty and cre­at­ed head­room for fu­ture growth. The planned re­pairs and main­te­nance at Bleachtech in the Unit­ed States have sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­ened the com­pa­ny’s abil­i­ty to sup­port cus­tomers’ on­go­ing re­quire­ments,” ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of ANSA McAL Nor­man Sab­ga said in his state­ment.

The con­glom­er­ate al­so un­der­took re­fi­nanc­ing ac­tiv­i­ties dur­ing the pe­ri­od, ex­tend­ing its prin­ci­pal T&T dol­lar and US dol­lar term fa­cil­i­ties to ten years on an un­se­cured ba­sis.

The move con­tributed to im­proved fi­nan­cial flex­i­bil­i­ty and helped re­duce the group’s gear­ing ra­tio to 20.3 per cent from 23.9 per cent at the end of De­cem­ber 2025. The com­pa­ny said it re­mained ful­ly com­pli­ant with all debt covenants.

Guyana re­mained a ma­jor dri­ver of growth, with group rev­enue in that mar­ket in­creas­ing by 22.9 per cent dur­ing the re­port­ing pe­ri­od.

Sab­ga said the com­pa­ny re­mained fo­cused on strength­en­ing its core busi­ness­es, pur­su­ing se­lec­tive ex­pan­sion op­por­tu­ni­ties and dri­ving in­no­va­tion across its op­er­a­tions.

“We look ahead with con­fi­dence as we pur­sue our am­bi­tion to grow ANSA McAL’s scale, reach and im­pact,” he said, adding that dis­ci­plined ex­e­cu­tion and strate­gic in­vest­ment would sup­port sus­tained growth and long-term share­hold­er val­ue.