Bulten AB (publ) (BULTEN) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone and welcome to this presentation with Bulte. Axel Bernsson, President and CEO, and Anna Åkerblad, CFO, will present the Q2 report for 2025 and answer questions during the Q&A. If you're calling in, please press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to mute yourself when you get the word. You can also use the form located to the right. And with that said, please go ahead with your presentation. Thank you. Welcome to our Q2 presentation. We have a fairly short agenda for today, so we give you a summary of Q2, a quick view of the market development, and then we go through our financial results and then we sum up and talk about the future in the end. So with that said, we move on. If we sum up our second quarter, I would say that it was broadly in line with both the prior year and previous quarter. I think this is quite good given that we saw softening volumes from the automotive sector, while at the same time we did see a strong improvement in our medical technology and consumer electronics segments. So it's nice to see that we are able to maintain margins even though volumes are lower. During the quarter, we've spent quite a lot of time with our strategic review and we have launched a more detailed process and program around that, where we are focusing on our footprint, on our organization, and how we allocate our resources for the future. If we look quickly about the markets, we usually show a few slides on the automotive sector, but I do foresee a soft market with zero or slightly positive growth globally, which is a little bit driven by Asia, while European and North American markets will be very low on growth. However, we do have other areas that we focus on and will focus more on for the future. So if you look at medical technology and consumer elect...