First tranche delivered, larger tranches en route: the same engine that just produced has visibly more already scheduled
The model's full reasoning — Q4 2015 call → NOWe need answer YES/NO. Need analyze transcript. Need identify one identifiable engine of new business with first tranche landed and larger tranches in motion. Let's parse. Management discusses several: Mexico petrochemical complex (cracker/polyethylene) startup. It is new business/facility. First tranche? At time of call, complex 99% completed, utilities operational, feedstocks ready, cracker not yet started? They say "to ensure to start off the cracker at the beginning of polyethylene production." In Q&A: "U.S. posted it's first quarter of the year reported [ph] plants to the cracker and the polyethylene lines are not running at this point. We do expect to have the cracker and the three polyethylene lines running at some point between now and at the end of this quarter over the next 40 days." So no production yet delivered. So first tranche not landed. NO. Another engine: new five-year petrochemical naphtha contract supply with Petrobras signed Dec 23, 2015. Is that a contract, but first tranche? It's a supply contract, not business delivered? It is an input contract, not engine of new business? It reduces uncertainty. Not a new business engine with delivered portion. NO. Cost reduction program: savings BRL156 million in 2015, expected BRL100 million recurring by 2017. Is that an engine? It's cost savings, not new business. First tranche landed? They had savings. Larger tranches? They expect more. But question asks engine of new business such as contract, program, product, facility, customer relationship, market, expansion. Cost reduction program could be program, but not "new business" engine? It is cost savings, not business contribution. Also management says savings in 2015 BRL156 million? Actually "initiated generated recurring gains on a $156 million" maybe BRL? They expect BRL100 million per year fully achieved in 2017. But is it larger tranches? They say savings for 2015 BRL109 million? Wait transcript: "It has reached a level of roughly BRL150 million for the year at the end of 2015, it's base is increasing, it has crossed the money phase in 2015 exactly 190 to be precise but what's the difference between the two numbers? ... The savings for 2015 were BRL109 million. The pace at which we finish 2016 was at a pace of BRL150 million of saving on an annualized basis.
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