Bulten AB (publ) (BULTEN) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to today's Finwire broadcast presentation with Bulten. After the presentation there will be a question and answer session, so if you have any questions you can submit them in English using the form on the right. With that said, I'll hand the floor to you. Please go ahead. Thank you. Welcome to our Q1 presentation at Bulten. We have a short agenda for you today and then we open up for questions afterwards. We will start with going through some key items for Q1, talk about some momentum that we have in our C-parts business. We have some comments on our financial position, and then we speak a bit about our order intake reporting before I hand it over to Anna to talk about our Q1 financials. And then we wrap it up with some focus items that we have going forward. All right. So I think looking at the first quarter, I think what we can see is that the volume is down a little bit. Half of it is currency, half of it is kind of volume driven. But we can see that even with volume decline, we have done quite a lot of improvements during the year on our cost position, which creates a lot of resilience. And therefore, we can deliver a pretty decent margin anyhow. So we're pretty happy with that. That's a good step in the right direction. We can also see that we have improved our gross margin. It's actually the best margin that we have reported in a couple of years. So that is a very important metric that we monitor tightly and we keep pushing for. It obviously creates a good upside if we get more volume into the business, if we have a strong GP. So happy about that. You might have read in earlier communications here that we have changed our business model in the US. So in the past, we have had a factory in Ohio, Cleveland, that we are now turning over to become ...