Ann: Half Year Results, page-24

On cat's pyjamas and RCR's maintenance services, compared to engineering construction contracts, maintenance services contracts tend to be long (e.g., five years), they allow for steady employment patterns, they are less risky, and they require less CAPEX. On the negative side, they tend to be less profitable, but all things considered, maintenance services business is better in the long run. A Samsung-sized disaster would not happen in a maintenance services contract, because disputes would arise before the dollars at risk are huge, and hence walking away would be less painful.

Read madamswer's post 3507756 of 21/08/18 in the MND subforum for a lucid treatment of MND's shift of emphasis from engineering construction towards maintenance services. The RCR acquisition now allows NWH to increase the proportion of its maintenance services business. You can be sure that both companies watch each other like hawks, and adopt and adapt from each other what is useful.