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TAICHUNG CITY, Taiwan, Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- J-Star Holding Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: YMAT) (“J-Star” or the “Company”), a leading provider of innovative carbon fiber and composite solutions across a wide range of applications including personal sports equipment, healthcare products, automobile parts, resin systems, and research and development services, today announced its unaudited financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2025 (“First Half 2025”). Financial and Business Highlights Revenue increased 30.7% to $10.6 million compared to $8.1 million for the same period last year Gross margin of 26.9% compared to 30.2% for the same period last year Delivered net operating profit of $154,000 and profit after income tax of $5,000 as the Company focused on launching its branded products and preparation for its Nasdaq Initial Public Offering Significantly expanded in rackets, including launching YMA’s first company-owned pickleball brand Successfully completed Initial Public Offering in July 2025, raising $5.0 million in gross proceeds Comments from Sam Van, Chief Executive Officer of J-Star “We are proud to have become a leading provider of innovative carbon fiber and composite solutions with products that have been endorsed by major brands and embraced by champions for over six decades. Our strong first half 2025 results are indicative of our ability to innovate toward high growth markets such as rackets, adapt to evolving market conditions in bikes, and execute with discipline. As a public company, we believe we are still in the early stages of a compelling growth journey.” “Revenue of $10.6 million grew more than 30% in 1H 2025, including approximately 500% growth in both our rackets and technical services businesses. This performance reflects successful evolution of our business model toward becoming a solutions provider rather than a traditional OEM. Notably, we were able to more than offset the deliberate reduction in bicycle volumes to focus on maintaining margins, as well as a decline in crank revenue following the acquisition of our customer by a third party.” “In the first half of 2025 we prepared for YMA’s launch of a line of in-house pickleball paddles as part of our direct-to-consumer strategy as we seek to capture our share of the world’s fastest growing sport, and we have since introduced the first two paddles – Horizon and Supernova...