CROPPER (JAMES) PLC (CRPR) — Results for the year ended 28 March 2026

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Good morning, and welcome to the James Cropper PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you hand you over to David Sterling, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you very much. I'm joined here by Andy Goody, our CFO on the other screen to present to you the results for our year end 2026. So quick introduction to James Cropper PLC. We have two divisions. The the business started off as a paper maker and paper packaging is still a large business. About two thirds of the turnover comes from the paper packaging business. And we supply very many markets globally, UK, Europe, North America, some markets in Asia, and best known for color papers and the the the quality of our products in a range of markets including craft papers, graphics, specialty packaging, etcetera. The other part of the business is advanced materials. Most of that business, we create paper like materials from other raw materials like carbon fiber, polymer, glass, etcetera. And these are used in a very wide variety of mainly industrial applications, but also including things like sports and leisure. The range includes things like galat things like medical, aircraft, defense, construction, etcetera. So and we also have a metal coatings business that primarily supplies into ...