Dürr Aktiengesellschaft (DURYY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the Dürr conference call followed by a Q&A session. The conference will be recorded. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode. The floor will be open for questions following the presentation. Let me now turn the floor over to our host Björn Voss, Head of Investor Relations, Dürr AG. Yes, hi, it's Bjorn speaking. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to today's call. Please apologize that we scheduled this call on short notice and outside business hours, but we think it's important to inform you about our Q2 prelims and optimization plans for BBS automation instantly and before stock market opening tomorrow. The presentation for the call can be found on our website and we assume you have it already in front of you. I would now like to hand over to our CEO, Jochen, who was joined by our CFO, Dietmar. Jochen, please go ahead. Thank you, Björn, and good evening to all participants on this call. And especially many thanks for your availability at short notice. Please, let's go straight to page three. As indicated in our Q1 call in mid-May, we've prepared a comprehensive efficiency program for BBS Automation in order to shape the company according to the changed market environment to strengthen its operating excellence and to position it to make full use of market opportunities in the future. Our measures also reflect that demand in the first half of the year was weaker than for Siebel last year. I'm going to make you familiar with the details of the program in a minute. Before, I would like to run you through our Q2 numbers which were quite solid in our two largest divisions. Group order intake was up 13% in Q2, mainly based on year-over-year growth in automotive. Within industrial automation, measuring and process systems, balancing techno...