MSA announced that net sales for the second quarter of 2013 were $300 million compared with $295 million for the second quarter of 2012, an increase of $5 million, or 2 percent.
Excluding the effect of weakening currencies and the company’s second quarter 2012 divestiture of its North American ballistic helmet business, net sales were a record, increasing $13 million, or 4.5 percent. Net income for the second quarter 2013 was $24 million, or $0.65 per basic share, a decrease of $4 million, or 14 percent, compared with $28 million, or $0.76 per basic share, for the same period last year.