赫克 2024年度报告

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well–known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.Yes⌧No⌧ Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.Yes⌧No⌧ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the SecuritiesExchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports),and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.Yes⌧No⌧ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuantto Rule 405 of Regulation S–T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrantwas required to submit such files). Yes⌧No⌧ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non–accelerated filer, a smaller reportingcompany, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reportingcompany,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b–2 of the Exchange Act. ⌧Large accelerated filer⌧Accelerated filer⌧Non–accelerated filer⌧Smaller reporting company☐Emerging growthcompany If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period forcomplying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.⌧ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management’s assessment of the effectiveness ofits internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered publicaccounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report.⌧ If securities are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act, indicate by check mark whether the financial statements of the registrantincluded in the filing reflect the correction of an error to previously issued financial statements. ☐ Indicate by check mark whether any of those error corrections are restatements that required a recovery analysis of incentive-basedcompensation received by any of the registrant’s executive officers during the relevant recovery period pursuant to §240.10D-1(b). ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b–2 of the Act).Yes ☐ No⌧ The aggregate market value of the registrant’s voting stock held by non–affiliates as of April 30, 2024 (the last business day of our mostrecently completed second quarter) was $118,071,000. The number of shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2024 was 6,446,349. DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement for its 2025 Annual Meeting ofShareholders (Part III). Forward-Looking Statements This report contains certain statements that are forward-looking statements within the meaning of federalsecurities laws. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly tohistorical or current facts. When used in this report, the words “may”, “will”, “should”, “would”, “could”,“anticipate”, “expect”, “plan”, “seek”, “believe”, “predict”, “estimate”, “potential”, “project”, “target”,“forecast”, “intend”, “strategy”, “future”, “opportunity”, “assume”, “guide”, and similar expressions areintended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on currentexpectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results todiffer materially from such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, amongothers, the cyclical nature of the machine tool industry; uncertain economic conditions, which mayadversely affect overall demand, in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific markets; the risks of ourinternational operations; governmental actions, initiatives and regulations, including import and exportrestrictions, duties and tariffs and changes to tax laws; the effects of changes in currency exchange rates;competition with larger companies that have greater financial resources; our dependence on new productdevelopment; the need and/or ability to protect our intellectual property assets; the limited number of ourmanufacturing and supply chain sources; increases in the prices of raw materials, especially steel and ironproducts; the effect of the loss of members of senior management and key personnel; our ability tointegrate acquisitions; acquisitions that could disrupt our operations and affect operating results; failure tocomply with data privacy and security regulations; breaches of our network and system securitymeasures; possible obsolescence of our technology and the need to make t