Ecolab Inc. (ECL) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Greetings. Welcome to the Ecolab second quarter 2025 earnings release conference call. At this time, all participants are in listening mode. The question and answer session will follow today's formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during today's conference, please press star zero from your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. At this time, it is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Andy Hedberg, Vice President, Investor Relations. Andy, you may now begin the presentation. Thank you, and hello, everyone, and welcome to Ecolab's second quarter conference call. With me today are Christoph Beck, Ecolab's chairman and CEO, and Scott Kirkland, our CFO. A discussion over our results, along with our earnings release and the slides referencing the quarter results, are available on Ecolab's website at ecolab.com slash investor. Please take a moment to read the cautionary statements in these materials, which state that this teleconference and the associated supplemental materials include estimates of future performance. These are forward-looking statements, and actual results could differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause actual results to differ are described under the risk factors section in our most recent Form 10-K and our posted materials. We also refer you to the supplemental diluted earnings per share information in the release. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Christophe for his comments. Thank you so much, Andy, and welcome to everyone joining us today. the Ecolab team delivered another very strong quarter. Once again, very consistent with our guidance. Our team's relentless focus on execution and delivering exceptional value to customers enabled us to achieve double-digit...