Alzchem Group Ag (ALZCF) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and a warm welcome to the earnings call of Alchem Group AG. I would like to introduce the company's CEO Andreas Niedermayer and CFO Andreas Lutzler, who will guide us through the presentation in a moment, followed by a Q&A session via audio line and chat. And with that, I hand over to you, Mr. Niedermayer. Yes, thank you for the very warm introduction. Good morning together and thank you for joining us today. And welcome to our quarter four and the year-end analyst call. As always, we will go through the presentation first and then we are available for questions at the end. Let's skip the first slides and go directly to page five. So how do we see the financial year 2025 here? The chemical environment is very challenging, at least here in Europe. There are really difficult conditions in Europe, but nevertheless, 2025 was again the most successful financial year for us. We are broadly positioned and yes, we also make basic chemicals which yield little profit, but we urgently need for the supply of... We cannot hear you right now, unfortunately. Okay, I'm very sorry. Now it's better. Thank you. You're still gone. We cannot hear you. Sorry. So now we should be back. Yes, you're back. Thank you so much. Yeah, okay. So then I go back a little bit to make sure that we have all information in our broadcast. Yeah, so we think that we are really broadly positioned, and yes, we also make basic and intermediate chemicals, which yield little profit, but we really urgently need that for our supply chain and for the raw materials. So this broad market, the product tree and the focus on our niche markets has allowed us to grow against the industry trend. So with consolidated sales of 562 million, the corridor for the sales forecast of approximately 580 million was larg...