Beijer Alma AB (publ) (BEIA_B) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this presentation of BEIA ALMA second quarter twenty twenty six. If you hear some strange noises around me, it's because I'm sitting in a sailboat in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It's a old way waves, but no wind. That's why there are some strange note noises. Together with me is Peter Forsloom, is the CFO of BEIALMA, who will present the financial figures. Good morning, everybody. On this agenda, I will talk a bit about highlights from q two, and then we'll talk about financial performance, then acquisitions, and finally q and a. And we increased our net revenue by 5% in this quarter, and we have adjusted EBITDA of 14%. If we look at the market and we are working in many areas of the world, and we start in United States where we are with the components. It's been a good quarter and we see a strong market in United States and we are as we are manufacturing springs, we are in many many different customer segments, but it seems like in the first half year there's been a strong market in United States and it seems to continue that way. If you go to Europe, that means Europe excluding Nordic, it's been a much weaker market. It's been stable, but really no no no increase in the market. And we have also still some problems to solve from our commx that we work with and and will be not solved probably before end of this year. In the Nordic region, we have seen a smaller growth, stable market and also a slight growth (publ) general for for the components and actually a nice growth organically for Beijer in order. If we go to Asia where we have the spring business, it's been a stable (publ) business over the period. Then we took specifically, we talked about Beijer it has been a very good quarter where we have made acquisitions, have had...