Frank Bozich

“I'd like to begin by sharing some information on trade flows in our chemistries, as we believe this is instructive for understanding how the end markets we serve have reacted to tariff uncertainties.”

“The seasonally higher volumes that we normally see in the second quarter were dampened by trade uncertainty after the April tariff announcements in the U.S. We experienced high order cancellations early in the quarter, which we believe was linked to increased geopolitical and trade uncertainty, but saw the magnitude…”

“Core business results in the first quarter were in line with expectations and sequentially higher due to seasonality and prior quarter customer destocking.”

“Before we get into our financial results, I'd like to highlight some of our outstanding safety achievements as we've had one of the safest summers in the history of the company this past year I'm proud to announce that 19 production and recycling facilities all of our global R&D teams and two site service teams…”