Century Aluminum Company (CENX) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello everyone, thank you for joining us and welcome to the Century Aluminum Company second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one to raise your hand. To withdraw your question, press star one again. I will now hand the conference over to Chad Rigg, Vice President, Finance and Treasurer. Please go ahead. Thank you, Operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the second quarter conference call. I'm joined here today by Jesse Gary, Century's President and Chief Executive Officer, and Peter Trpkovski, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. After our prepared comments, we will take your questions. As a reminder, today's presentation is available on our website at www.centuryaluminum.com. We use our website as a means of disclosing material information about the company and for complying with Regulation SD. Turning to slide two, please take a moment to review the cautionary statements with respect to forward-looking statements and non-GAAP financial measures in today's discussion. And with that, I'll hand the call to Jesse. Thank you, Chad, and thanks to everyone for joining. I'll start today by reviewing our second quarter operational performance, including the completion of the Mount Holly expansion and the restart of Potline 2 at Grundertangi, before turning to the continued strong market conditions we are operating in today. Pete will then walk you through our Q2 results and Q3 outlook before I conclude the call with the latest on our new Oklahoma smelter project and on President Trump's important new executive order incentivizing companies like Sentry that are building new American aluminum capacity. Before w...