ESSENTRA PLC (ESNT) — Annual General Meeting

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Welcome to the ESNTRA PLC Annual General Meeting Proceedings. Perhaps recorded meeting attendees will be in listen only mode. Questions can be submitted via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of the screen. Simply type in your question and press send. Company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. Have a group of your questions submitted today and published responses where appropriate to do so. I'd now like to hand over to the Board of ESSENTRA PLC. Good afternoon. Hello, and welcome to ESSENTRA's twenty twenty six Annual General Meeting. I am Steve Goode, Chairman of your Board. It's my pleasure to chair this Annual General Meeting. It's now 1PM. We have a quorum present, so I declare the meeting open. I'm joined by my board colleagues, Scott Fawcett, Rowan Baker, Mary Riley, Senior Independent Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, Kathy Rand, Chair of Remuneration Committee and Non Executive Directors, Adrian Peace and Claus Gouldenbott. Claus joined the Board in September 2025 and was recently appointed Chair of the ESG Committee. The format for today's meeting is that we'll first deal with the formal business, then our Chief Executive, Scott Fawcett will provide a business update. Once this meeting concludes, please join us for a buffet lunch. Before going any further, however, I have to hand over to my colleague, Chris Butler, our Operations Director, who will brief you on what we have to do in the event of a fire or the safety matter. Chris, over to you. Thank you, Steve. Welcome, everybody. So the most important thing today while you're on-site is your welfare and health and safety. So just a couple of things for you all. Hopefully everybody has a visitor's badge, so I can remind you all w...