Agfa-Gevaert NV (AFGVF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the AGFA First Stepwater 2026 results conference call. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only mode. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad. Now, I will hand the conference over to Pascal Furet, CEO. Please, go ahead, sir. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the ACFA call. I'm sitting here in Marseille with Fiona Lam, our CFO, Vivien Dictus, Head of Investor Relations, and the executive team of ACFA. So, first quarter. Let me move the slide. So, I'm going to briefly give the highlights, then pass on the mic to Fiona for the financial review. I will do the business review and the outlooks. So, first highlight, clearly, Q1 for me is a robust performance in positive supply coming from price in the area and volume impact in digital printing. The rest of the group being slightly below last year. strong EBDA increase year on year. You know last year was a relatively weak quarter for us. It reflects our ability to implement efficiently our selling programs. You will see it throughout this presentation. And as well, the ability to pass on the silver price impact to our customers in the firm activities. As you know, we've been We've been seeing a tremendous increase of silver, I would say, since a year and a half, with price having almost quadrupled in the same period. And these results show our ability to navigate these market circumstances with efficiency. Save programs that we have launched last year, I'm happy to report we are now in annualized savings of 57 million. If you remember, we talked about the plan of 50 million first, and we launched at the end of last year another plan for an extra 25. So we a...