Andritz Ag Graz Akt (ADRZF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning from Andritz this morning and welcome to our full year 24 earnings call with analysts and investors. I'm Matthias Pfeifenberger, the head of investor relations, and I have a big pleasure to introduce our hosts today. It's our CEO, Dr. Joachim Schönbeck, our CFO, Mr. Nettesheim, and our new executive board member, Vanessa Helving. What is the agenda today? We'll run you through the full results, including the divisions, then we'll switch over to outlook and medium-term targets, followed by Q&A. And before we start, I'd like to pass over to Vanessa Helving for introductory remarks. Vanessa, please. Thank you, Matthias. Thanks for the intro and also a sincere thanks to Joachim and my dear board colleagues for the great welcome at the Board of Hundreds. So maybe a few words from my side. Good morning to all. My name is Vanessa Helving, and I'm part of the Android team since January. I'm very excited to take over the new CFO role from April, following a very smooth and professional handover from Lovett Nettersheim. I have already been in CFO positions since the age of 29 and have been working with companies like Siemens, ThyssenKrupp and Fisman Climate Solutions, which was recently sold to Carrier Global. I'm bringing along quite significant experience in the large cap sector. Many fields of my professional expertise actually imply a broad overlap with hundreds focus areas. like plant engineering in general or large project business in specific. But also the focus on sustainable solutions, a strong service offering and also my favorite, digitalization. In my previous roles, I was driving large restructuring programs and portfolio optimizations. I have headed large-scale M&A processes with intense post-merger integration and also special projects like shared s...