AEI Corporation Ltd. provided group earnings guidance for the half year ended June 30, 2015. For the period, the group expects to report an operating loss for this period. The losses were mainly due to lower sales achieved during the period as the worldwide demand from the HDD markets has weakened further and competition from overseas suppliers has become more intensified.

The high raw material and operating cost during the period contributed further to the loss. Furthermore, the company has to write down the cost of the inventory as worldwide aluminium price and its premium starts to soften from the beginning of the second half of the year.