ALUMASC GROUP PLC (ALU) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon. Welcome to the ALUMASC GROUP PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Paul Hooper, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you very much, Lily, and thank you all for attending the ALUMASC interim present results presentation for the half year to December 2025. Introductions. My name is Paul Hooper. I'm the chief executive of the group, and I'm joined today by Simon Dre, the group finance director. This is my fiftieth and last results presentation for the ALUMASC Group. So if we may, I suggest that we go on to page four, and this is really an overview of our divisions. Sustainability drives our future growth. We have three divisions, and I'll give you a quick description of each of those. And we start with the water management division, which is involved in water and storm water management. Many of our systems are specified. We manufacture circa 70% of our products, and 70% are sold to merchants with 30% direct to contractors. Our second division shown in the middle here is the building envelope division, which consists of our roofing systems company, which gives technical advice, for instance, by taking core samples from current roofs and then advising what the solution is. We supply premium roofing systems from Durbogum, Hyd...