Evonik Industries Ag (EVKIF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.171 -- 00:00:06.052 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Q22026 earnings conference call. 00:00:06.052 -- 00:00:11.253 I am Shari, the chorus call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants 00:00:11.253 -- 00:00:14.934 will be in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. 00:00:14.934 -- 00:00:18.494 The presentation will be followed by Q&A session. 00:00:18.494 -- 00:00:23.855 You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. 00:00:23.855 -- 00:00:27.358 For operator assistance, please press star and 0. 00:00:27.358 -- 00:00:31.919 The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. 00:00:31.919 -- 00:00:36.059 At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Christian Kullmann, CEO. 00:00:36.059 -- 00:00:38.440 Please go ahead. 00:00:38.920 -- 00:00:44.041 Thanks a lot and a very warm welcome to our Q2 audience conference 00:00:44.041 -- 00:00:49.162 call and thanks to everybody for joining us this morning. 00:00:49.162 -- 00:00:54.503 An especially warm welcome goes again to our new CFO, Michael Rauch, 00:00:54.503 -- 00:00:59.661 who's sitting here next to me. Michael. I am really glad that you did good 00:00:59.661 -- 00:01:04.584 stuff with us in the last month and that you are taking an active role for the first 00:01:04.584 -- 00:01:09.806 time on this call today. As usual, I will 00:01:09.806 -- 00:01:15.169 start with selected strategic highlights, Michael then will comment on our strong 00:01:15.169 -- 00:01:21.232 Q2 results, before I will take over again to discuss our upgraded outlook. 00:01:21.232 -- 00:01:26.782 As you know, From our pre-release, we recorded a second quarter above expectations. 00:01:26.782 -- 00:01:32.206 Actually, this was the best quarterly r...