HEXPOL AB (publ) (HPOL_B) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the HexBall Q3 presentation. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to the CEO, Klaus Dahlberg, and CFO, Peter Rawson. Please go ahead. Thank you, operator, and hello to you all, and thank you for joining this call, and welcome to the HexBall Q3 presentation. This is Claes Dahlberg speaking and I'm here together with our CFO, Peter Rosen. If you please turn to page two. I will start with a business update. Peter will take you through the financials and I will summarize the quarter. After that, we are happy to answer your questions. If we then go to page four, please. I will start by going through the Q3 performance. We see that most markets continue to be affected by the geopolitical uncertainty, but it's pleasing to see that the European market continues to be rather stable, while the North American market is still challenging. We had only minor direct impact from tariffs, whereas the indirect impact on end customers affected the overall demand, especially north america it's also pleasing to see that including acquisitions volumes were actually higher than last year and excluding acquisitions they were in line with last year but with an unfavorable mix looking at our main segments we saw that the automotive and customer segment continued to be slow primarily in north america That was partly compensated for by increased demand in building and construction and also in wire and cable. Our most recent acquisition Piedmont in the US and Capcom in Turkey contributed positively to the quarter. Sales prices as well as prices on major raw materials were stable both versus last year but also sequentially. High uncertainty continues, trigge...