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Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

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2021
ANNUAL
REPORT

“WE OPERATE WITH 
STRONG MARKET 
POSITIONS 

and improving financial results coupled 
with a healthy balance sheet, and we 
are building on this foundation to deliver 
differentiated performance in the next 
phase of our journey.”

- PAUL STERNLIEB, PRESIDENT & CEO  

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ENERPAC TOOL GROUP
is a global leader in high-precision tools, 
controlled force products and solutions for 
precise heavy lifting.

100+
Countries 
sold into

~2,100

Employees

110
Years of 
history 

100+
Years of 
leadership 
team 
experience

VERTICAL MARKETS 

Civil Construction

Industrial MRO

Aerospace

Power Gen. & Renewables

Manufacturing Tools

Oil & Gas

Steel & Metal

Off-Highway Vehicle Repair

On-Highway Vehicle Repair

Mining

Rescue

Military

Paper/Wood

Enerpac Tool Group

Products
Cylinders/jacks, pumps, 
bolting tools, presses, 
pullers, tools, and 
heavy lifting technology

Service and 
Rental
Bolting, machining 
and joint integrity

Extensive Global 
Distribution
1,500+ long-standing
distribution 
relationships

3,500+ distributor
locations 

Diversified 
Customer Base
Customers include 
specialty dealers, 
national distribution, 
and large OEM’s

STRONG BRAND RECOGNITION 

Premium Industrial Tools  |  
Heavy Lifting

Service  |  Rental  |  Training

Medical  |  Industrial Ropes

 
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INNOVATION
FY 2021 New Products

We believe it takes advanced technical expertise 
and ingenuity to develop the industry’s most 
trusted solutions. It all starts with a thorough 
understanding of our customer needs, the 
environments they work in and the ideas of 
tomorrow that help get jobs done safer, faster, 
and easier. Our relentless pursuit to deliver the 
highest standard of excellence means never 
compromising on quality. 

HMT Series Interchangeable 
Hydraulic Torque Wrenches
make it possible to enhance your 
bolting inventory in a cost-effective 
way–and without compromising on 
quality.

ZE2 & ZW2-Series Electric Pumps 
are the ideal solution for workholding 
and shop applications that require 
reliable performance, productive flow 
rates, quiet operation, and low-cost 
maintenance.

Upgraded RC-Trio Series 
Hydraulic Cylinders include a new 
‘Trio’ bearing system for enhanced 
durability, and a new hybrid spring-
return system for fast retraction and 
greater productivity.

Portable Safe T™ Torque Checker
provides simple and accurate 
measurement of torque output 
within +/-1% in order to fasten bolts 
accurately the first time.

Split-Flow Manifolds are for 
complex and large construction 
projects, eliminate manual 
intervention, provide warnings, 
and deliver accuracy of up to 1mm 
across all lifting points.

Line Stop Actuators offer a safe 
and reliable choice for pipeline 
maintenance, including easier 
plugging, and offer longer-term 
durability along with industry-
standard features.

ML40 Mini-Lift Gantry has built-in 
synchronization and safety features 
so all an operator needs for nearly 
any 40-ton lifting job is a standard 
power supply and basic training.

Turbine Engine Digital Turning 
Tool provides an advanced 
and simple solution for rotating 
turbine engines during borescope 
inspections.

RP70 Rail Stressor is designed for 
railway maintenance engineers to 
be able to stress, weld, repair and 
service railways, and can be carried 
and assembled by one person.

Enerpac Tool Group

NEVER COMPROMISE.

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ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL 
AND GOVERNANCE 
Our local and global responsibility  

PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Striving to run efficient operations that minimize our impact on the environment, all of our facilities, 
including manufacturing operations, and 2,100 employees embrace continuous improvement as part of our 
culture of pursuing efficiencies and delivering cost-effective products for our customers.  

We are committed to safeguarding natural resources and protecting the environment as part of our daily 
responsibilities and operations. Our commitment to compliance, conservation, good citizenship and 
continuous improvement fosters a culture of environmental excellence and responsibility throughout our 
business.

COMMUNITY GIVING

Our company is committed to being 
a positive contributor to and enhance 
the quality of life of the communities 
where our employees work and live.  
Our Enerpac Lifts Up Community Giving 
Program goals are as follows:

Ensure that each Enerpac Tool 
Group location supports at 
least one community project or 
organization.

Increase employee awareness and 
participation in local and national 
volunteer opportunities.

Encourage employee giving and 
support their contributions through 
a company participation bonus for 
each site.  

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives 
aim to implement actions that support diversity 
through the full employee life-cycle, including 
recruiting, DEI-focused talent development, 
company-wide initiatives focused on equitable 
inclusion, and benchmarking and reporting our 
progress. We know that aligning resources in 
these key areas will drive change faster. Our top 
priorities are:

Establish a Culture of Belonging
where all employees can thrive

Improve Our Recruiting Practices
to attract more diverse employees

Support Education for 
Disadvantaged Groups
in our communities

Enerpac Tool Group

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DELIVERING LONG-TERM GROWTH 

Sustainable business model
built on well-recognized brands, robust global distribution and 
broad reach of end markets 

Clear strategy
to drive core growth above market and expand margins

Disciplined capital deployment
powered by strong balance sheet and free cash flow conversion

Experienced leadership team
capable of executing to win

DEPLOYING CAPITAL 

DELIVERING 
LONG-TERM
GROWTH

Invest in 
ourselves to drive 
organic growth

Reduce debt and 
maintain a strong 
balance sheet

Execute selective, 
disciplined M&A 
within tool space

Conduct 
opportunistic 
share buybacks

2021 REVENUE BY CATEGORY

2021 REVENUE BY GEOGRAPHY

Services (Manpower/
Rental) ~25%

100% = 
$528.7m

Australia 5%

S. America 3%

Mexico/Canada 5%

All Others

Asia 10%

Top Ten

Middle East 12%

U.S. 36%

100% = 
$528.7m

Products ~75%

Enerpac Tool Group

All Others

Europe 29%

Top Ten

 
CEO LETTER 
Paul Sternlieb 
President and Chief Executive Officer

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Dear Shareholders:

Enerpac Tool Group is a premier industrial tools and services company serving a 
broad and diverse set of customers in more than 100 countries. The Company’s 
businesses are global leaders in several products and solutions for precise 
positioning of heavy loads that help customers safely and reliably tackle some 
of the most challenging jobs around the world. We operate with strong market 
positions and improving financial results coupled with a healthy balance sheet, 
and we are building on this foundation to deliver differentiated performance in the 
next phase of our journey.

I am delighted to have the opportunity to lead Enerpac Tool Group. My background and 
experience corresponds well with our objectives of driving growth in sales and profit margins, 
delivering sustainable benefits through operational excellence, and effectively allocating capital, 
while creating value for our customers and our shareholders. Over the course of my career, I have 
had the privilege of leading several world-class, global industrial and manufacturing organizations. 
As I make my way around our business, I have been very impressed by Enerpac’s strong market 
position, global breadth, rich history, and outstanding reputation with our customers. We enjoy an 
excellent foundation built on a broad portfolio of leading products and services, with a team that 
is ready to meet tomorrow’s challenges. We have many exciting opportunities ahead to deliver 
further shareholder value, such as our commercial growth initiatives, new product developments, 
digital and IoT innovations, and further improvements in productivity and efficiency. Moreover, 
with much of the heavy lifting of our portfolio repositioning now complete, Enerpac is a pure-play 
industrial tools and services company that is poised for growth.

Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results
The company achieved net sales of $529 million, 7% higher than the prior year 
sales, despite the continued challenges posed by the global pandemic. I am 
encouraged by the strong growth that we saw in the Americas and Europe, 
especially in the second half of our fiscal year. However, there were still portions 
of our business, particularly in our Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, that 
remained challenged by reduced demand conditions due to pandemic-related 
lockdowns and the lingering economic effects of the pandemic throughout the 
year. As we exited the fiscal year, our sales were also modestly impacted by the 
supply chain challenges impacting the broader global market. Our sourcing and 

REVENUE 
GROWTH

7%

Enerpac Tool Group

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CEO LETTER

procurement teams continue to work through these challenges to mitigate the impact they could 
have on our ongoing results.

SECOND-HALF 
ADJUSTED 
INCREMENTAL 
EBITDA MARGIN

46%

Operating profit from continuing operations was $51million or roughly 10% 
of net sales, an increase of $27 million or 53% compared to the prior year. 
The improved profitability was driven from the increased sales volume, 
a 200 basis point gross profit improvement from higher absorption of 
our overhead costs and improved product and service mix, and lower 
selling, general and administrative expenses. Consistent with sales, our 
second half profitability improved significantly as the economic effects 
of the global pandemic subsided in our larger regions and resulted in 
incremental adjusted EBITDA margins of roughly 46%, excluding the 
impact of currency, exceeding the high end of our targeted range.

Consolidated net income and diluted EPS from continuing operations for Fiscal 2021 were 
$40.2 million and $0.67, respectively, compared to net income and diluted EPS from continuing 
operations of $5.6 million and $0.09, respectively, in Fiscal 2020.

We generated over $69 million of free cash flow in Fiscal 2021, and our 
free cash flow conversion for the year was well in excess of 100%. We 
paid down $80 million in debt largely from the cash flows generated in 
the fiscal year and ended the year with $140 million in cash on hand. Our 
debt leverage (defined as net debt divided by adjusted EBITDA) was at 
0.6 times down from 1.8 in the prior year. We expect our leverage to further 
improve as we continue to have year-over-year growth and lapse our 
COVID-impacted quarters from our trailing twelve-month EBITDA.

182%

FREE CASH 
FLOW 
CONVERSION

A Vision for an Exciting Future
As I joined the company, I have taken the opportunity to meet with many key stakeholders to 
learn about our history, our current performance, and our future potential. Our long-term goal is to 
create shareholder value and best-in-class returns through growth of our core businesses, driving 
efficiency and profitability, generating strong cash flow, and being disciplined in the deployment 
of our capital. As we work towards that goal, we are also currently updating our strategy and 
underlying initiatives that will enable us to consistently deliver on those objectives, and we look 
forward to sharing our perspectives with you in the coming months. With that said, there are 
several overarching objectives that I believe are important to the long-term success of Enerpac:

•  Maintain a relentless focus on a strong safety culture and operating environment; 
•  Continue and accelerate our pure-play tools strategy, and further enhance Enerpac’s  

leading position in the market by executing thoughtful and impactful growth initiatives and 
innovation programs; 

•  Pursue additional opportunities for overhead cost reduction and operational productivity 

that allow us to be more nimble, responsive, and efficient; 

•  Explore selective acquisition opportunities to complement our product and service 

portfolio, while maintaining appropriate discipline and commitment to strong returns; 

•  Maintain a balanced capital allocation framework, always through the lens of the 

shareholder; 

•  Continue to focus on sustainable operational improvements and margin expansion; 

Enerpac Tool Group

 
 
 
 
 
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2021 Annual Report    7

•  Drive further simplification in our business to remove unnecessary complexity and enable 

us to better serve our customers; and

•  Further enhance our culture through the application of more standard business 

processes, a deeper connection with our end users, and our continued focus on Diversity, 
Equity, and Inclusion (“DE&I”).

These objectives will form the foundation for our strategy and the work we undertake to deliver on 
that strategy.

One step that we successfully completed in Fiscal 2021 in line with these objectives was the 
consolidation of our Morpeth and Cramlington sites in the UK, establishing our world-class center 
of excellence for Enerpac’s torque and tension business. Leveraging our recent acquisition of 
HTL Group, the re-imagined Cramlington site is 
now home to Enerpac’s global engineering and 
manufacturing activities that are responsible 
for the continued development of our line of 
industry-leading torque and tension tools used 
across multiple vertical markets such as power 
generation, wind, oil and gas, and general 
industrial applications. Our investments in state-
of-the-art manufacturing capabilities and the 
latest tools to help our team innovate will enable 
us continue to provide our customers with the 
very highest quality tools and know-how to help 
them work safer and smarter in their toughest 
applications.

Site consolidation and investing in manufacturing 
capabilities make our Cramlington, UK facility a Center of 
Excellence for our torque and tension products.

Positive Prospects for the Long-Term
At Enerpac we serve customers across a robust mix of end markets, geographies, and 
applications, many of which we believe are situated for long-term growth and investment. Markets 
such as civil construction, industrial MRO, aerospace, power generation and renewables, and 
steel are already seeing favorable macro-trends that we believe will provide beneficial tailwinds 
to Enerpac. In addition, Enerpac is well positioned to take advantage of increased infrastructure 
spending. We actively participate in many aspects of infrastructure applications including roads 
and bridges, rail, commercial construction, electrical distribution, water, airports, and port facilities.

Add to that our competitive advantages of an extensive global distribution network with over 1,500 
long-standing distribution relationships, application experts with the ability to provide extensive 
product information and demonstrations to our customers, global reach to support our customers’ 
needs for tools and services, and sales and rental capabilities in all major markets served, and we 
believe we have a very bright future.

One way we’ll be expanding our long-term capabilities in the coming months will be with our new 
and much larger Enerpac Tool Center in Deer Park, Texas. The 52,000 square foot facility will 
have capacity to house extensive rental inventory and host hands-on trainings for both Enerpac 
and Hydratight customers. It will also include a torque calibration lab and a product showroom. 
The facility will serve as a model for future Enerpac Tool Centers around the globe.

Enerpac Tool Group

 
 
 
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CEO LETTER

Positioned to Achieve Differentiated Performance
Enerpac Tool Group has significant potential based on a strong foundation for profitable growth. 
We have a dedicated team of 2,100 employees who share a clear vision and are engaged in 
solving our customers’ problems every day. Having successfully navigated through the global 
pandemic, we remain steadfastly focused on continuing to invest in highly differentiated new 
product developments, building deeper connections with our customers, and leveraging digital 
technologies to help reach and support new customers. In addition, our current liquidity provides 
us with ample capacity between our cash on hand, existing credit facilities, and access to debt 
markets to invest appropriately for organic and inorganic growth.

Moreover, we have continued building on our DE&I efforts 
across Enerpac to ensure that we create a stronger 
company where everyone on the team feels a true sense 
of belonging. Over the past year we have significantly 
enhanced our focus on DE&I and have incorporated 
several DE&I-related objectives into our core strategy, 
including: (i) a focus on our culture to ensure all feel 
they belong, (ii) broadening our recruiting efforts to 
reach, attract and retain more diverse employees, and 
(iii) supporting education for disadvantaged groups in our 
communities.

Our first employee resource group, Women 
of Enerpac is committed to empowering and 
supporting  women employees to develop 
professionally in their careers. 

In Fiscal 2021, Enerpac achieved several significant accomplishments, none of which would have 
been possible without the strong efforts of our dedicated employees around the world. I would like 
to thank our team for these results and for their commitment to serving our customers, especially 
in light of the challenges presented by the global pandemic.

In addition, I would like to thank the Board of Directors for this opportunity, and Enerpac Tool 
Group’s former President and CEO, Randy Baker, for his support in helping to ensure a very 
smooth leadership transition. Randy’s work in transforming the company has set us on the right 
path of a pure-play industrial tools and services company. This is a very exciting time to be part of 
the Enerpac Tool Group, and I am looking forward to the next steps in our journey together, which 
I believe will be truly energizing and rewarding.

Sincerely,

Paul Sternlieb
President and Chief Executive Officer
Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

Enerpac Tool Group

CORPORATE INFORMATION 
Company Leadership

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INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS
Alfredo Altavilla
Executive Chairman of Italia Transporto Aereo, S.p.A.

CORPORATE OFFICE
N86 W12500 Westbrook Crossing
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051

Judy L. Altmaier 
Former President, Exmark Manufacturing Co.

J. Palmer Clarkson
President and CEO, Bridgestone HosePower, LLC

Danny L. Cunningham
Former Chief Risk Officer and Retired Partner of 
Deloitte & Touche, LLP

E. James Ferland
Former Chairman and CEO of Babcock & Wilcox 
Enterprises, Inc.

Richard D. Holder 
CEO of HZO, Inc. 

Sidney S. Simmons, II 
Founder and Principal at Simmons Law

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Paul E. Sternlieb
President and Chief Executive Officer

Barbara G. Bolens
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Rick T. Dillon
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

EXCHANGE
New York Stock Exchange
Ticker Symbol: EPAC

TRANSFER AGENT
Equiniti 
Shareowner Services
PO Box 64874
St. Paul, MN 55164
800.468.9716

INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT
Ernst & Young
833 East Michigan St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202

INVESTOR RELATIONS
Financial analysts & investors 
should direct inquires to:

Bobbi Belstner 
Senior Director of Investor Relations & Strategy
bobbi.belstner@enerpac.com

Certain comments in this Annual Report represent forward-looking statements made pursuant to the provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Management cau-
tions that these statements are based on current estimates of future performance and are highly dependent upon a variety of factors, which could cause actual results to differ from these 
estimates. Among other risks and uncertainties, Enerpac Tool Group’s results are subject to risks and uncertainties arising from general economic conditions, supply chain risk, material 
and labor cost increases, the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact of the pandemic or related government responses on the Company’s business, the businesses of the Company’s 
customers and vendors, and employee mobility, and whether site-specific health and safety concerns related to COVID-19 might require operations to be halted for some period of time, 
volatile oil pricing, variation in demand from customers, the impact of geopolitical activity on the economy, continued market acceptance of the Company’s new product introductions, the 
successful integration of acquisitions, the impact of restructurings, operating margin risk due to competitive pricing and operating efficiencies, tax law changes, foreign currency fluctua-
tions and interest rate risk. See the Company’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for further information regarding 
risk factors. Enerpac Tool Group disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or any other reason.

Enerpac Tool Group

N86 W12500 Westbrook Crossing
Menomonee Falls, WI 53051
262.293.1500
www.enerpactoolgroup.com