Company: PLPC
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-012640
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Company: PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 Labor shortages or increased labor-related costs could also directly affect our financial condition. Additionally, the health of the Company's employees is critical, and workplace safety is the Company's top priority.

The Company continues to develop and invest in human capital through continuing education, work-related certifications, and talent and performance management systems. These efforts directly impact the Company’s ability to deliver its growth objectives and execute its strategy, though the Company is susceptible to interruptions in the workforce that could affect the Company’s operating results and financial condition.

A material disruption or unforeseen difficulties with any of our manufacturing facilities could negatively impact our operating results and financial condition.

The Company operates 25 manufacturing facilities domestically and internationally to strategically serve its worldwide markets. Equipment failures, operational interruptions, natural disasters and other unanticipated disruptions may decrease our ability to manufacture our products in a timely manner at our anticipated cost. Interruptions in our production due to such a disruption may lead to decreasing sales and necessitating capital expenditures, therefore negatively impacting our operating results and financial condition. 

The Company may also face unforeseen difficulties if we decide to build, lease, expand, redesign, relocate or consolidate facilities. Despite planning, a real estate project may entail uncertainties regarding cost, timeliness, personnel and materials, and any of these variables may negatively impact the Company’s operating results and financial condition.

The Company’s stock price is subject to volatility.

The stock market in general is highly volatile. As a result, the market price of the Company’s common shares is similarly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a number of factors, some of which may be beyond the Company’s control. These factors include actual or anticipated fluctuations in the Company’s operating results; changes in, or the inability to, achieve estimates of, its operating results by analysts, investors or management; analysts’ recommendations regarding its stock or its competitors’ stock; sales of substantial amounts of its common shares by shareholders; actions or announcements by the Company or its competitors; the maintenance and growth of the value of the Company’s brands; litigation; legislation or other regulatory developments affecting the Company or its industry; widespread illness or pandemics; natural disasters; cyber-attacks; terrorist acts; war or other calamities and changes in general market and economic conditions.

Legal, Tax and Regulatory Risks

The Company may be adversely impacted by laws, regulations, and litigation.

The Company is subject to various laws and regulations in the many jurisdictions in which it operates. For example, extensive environmental regulations related to air and water quality, the discharge of pollutants,