Ashland Inc. (ASH) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello, and welcome to Ashland's second quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask the question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear an automatic message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. I would now like to turn the conference over to William Whitaker. Sir, you may begin. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ashland's second quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings conference call and webcast. My name is William Whitaker, Ashland Investor Relations. Joining me on the call today are Guillermo Novo, Ashland Chair and CEO, Kevin Willis, Ashland CFO, and our business unit leaders, Alessandro Piscine, Jim Minacucci, and Dago Caceres. During today's call, we'll reference slides being webcast on our website, Ashland.com, under the Investor Relations section. We encourage you to follow along. Please turn to slide two. We'll be discussing forward-looking statements on several matters, including our fiscal 2025 outlook, which involve risks and uncertainties as detailed on slide two, and in our Form 10-K. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from today's projections. We believe any such statements are based on reasonable assumptions. They cannot assure that such expectations will be achieved. We'll also discuss certain adjusted financial metrics, both actual and projected, which are non-GAAP measures. We refer to these measures as adjusted and present them to supplement your understanding and assessment of our ongoing business. GAAP recon...