AKM Industrial Company Limited provided earnings guidance for the six months ended June 30, 2015. For the period, the group expects to record a significant decrease in profit compared with that reported for the corresponding period in 2014. Such decrease in profit was mainly attributable to the incurrence of substantial operating costs for Phase II of Suzhou Factory of the Group in the People's Republic of China (PRC) which commenced trial production of flexible packaging substrates in the first quarter of 2015 and had not yet achieved the benefit of economy of scale at its initialization and the significant increase in research and development (R&D) expenses incurred for additional and/or relatively complicated R&D projects; and testing of newly constructed production lines and trial production of flexible packaging substrates in Phase II of Suzhou Factory.