Kemira Oyj Ord (KOYJF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning everyone and welcome to Kemira's Q2 result webcast. My name is Kiira Froberg and I'm the head of investor relations at Kemira. We published our half-year financial report today. While revenue remained stable year on year, our profitability was burdened by cost inflation. Here with me today I have our president and CEO Antti Salminen and our CFO Tuomas Makipeska. Before we start the actual presentation, I would just like to kindly remind you that our presentation today contains forward-looking statements. We have our usual agenda for the day and Antti will start by covering the Q2 highlights and he will also discuss the group level performance. After that, Tuomas will discuss the financials in a bit more detail, and his part of the presentation includes also the business unit performance. In the end, we will have Q&A, as always, and questions can be asked either in the webcast chat function or by phone. But with that, it's now time to give the stage to Antti. Please go ahead with the presentation. Thank you, Kiira, and good morning to everybody. On my behalf as well, it's my great pleasure to present Kemera's Q2 26 results, even if the results themselves are not that pleasant. Let's start with the market environment. The market continues to be extremely soft and weak and that we of course witnessed already last year. So basically the geopolitical turmoil in the world is causing the great uncertainty and unpredictability Thank you very much. When the customers' processes are running with low utilization, there's less demand for our product, and that we have now witnessed already for quite some time, and that these conditions seem to be continuing and continued well into the quarter two of this year. and that is then visible in the weak top line performance...