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Related Parties
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2026
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Parties

Note 17 – Related Parties

Åkers TISCO Roll Co., Ltd. (“ATR”), a 59.88% indirectly owned joint venture of UES, has sales to and purchases from ATR’s minority shareholder and its affiliates and sales to a shareholder of one of the Corporation’s other joint ventures in China and its affiliates. These sales and purchases, which were in the ordinary course of business, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 were as follows:

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30,

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

2025

 

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

Purchases from related parties

 

$

3,248

 

 

 

21,989

 

 

$

2,657

 

 

 

19,066

 

Sales to related parties

 

$

5,359

 

 

 

36,124

 

 

$

4,261

 

 

 

30,491

 

 

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

2025

 

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

Purchases from related parties

 

$

7,292

 

 

 

49,775

 

 

$

6,669

 

 

 

48,136

 

Sales to related parties

 

$

15,569

 

 

 

106,278

 

 

$

13,471

 

 

 

97,231

 

 

Purchases from related parties are included in costs of products sold (excluding depreciation and amortization) and selling and administrative expense on the condensed consolidated statements of operations or inventories on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

Balances outstanding with ATR’s minority shareholder including its affiliates and the other joint venture’s shareholder and its affiliates as of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025 were as follows:

 

 

September 30, 2026

 

 

September 30, 2026

 

 

December 31, 2025

 

 

December 31, 2025

 

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

 

USD

 

 

RMB

 

Accounts receivable from related parties

 

$

3,530

 

 

 

23,668

 

 

$

2,390

 

 

 

16,723

 

Accounts payable to related parties

 

$

1,327

 

 

 

8,897

 

 

$

69

 

 

 

481

 

 

The manufacturing facilities of ATR are located on land leased by ATR from the other partner. The land lease commenced in 2007, the date the joint venture was formed, and continues through 2054, the expected end date of the joint venture, and includes variable lease payments based on the land standard price prevailing in Taiyuan, China, where the joint venture is located. Rent paid by ATR to the other partner approximated $33 (RMB 223) for each of the three months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025 and $100 (RMB 669) for each of the nine months ended September 30, 2026 and 2025, which is included in purchases from related parties.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2026, the Corporation had purchases from UES-UK to fulfill orders on existing customer contracts. No purchases occurred during the third quarter of 2026. These purchases, which were in the ordinary course of business and included in costs of products sold (excluding depreciation and amortization) on the condensed consolidated statement of operations, for the nine months ended September 30, 2026 were as follows:

 

 

Nine Months Ended September 30, 2026

 

Purchases from UES-UK

 

$

1,723

 

 

Balances outstanding with UES-UK were as follows:

 

 

September 30,
2026

 

 

December 31,
2025

 

Accounts payable to UES-UK

 

$

130

 

 

$

1,758