Quaker Houghton (KWR) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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of Investor Relations. Mr. Schnell, you may begin. Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to our second quarter 2025 earnings conference call. On the call today are Joe Berquist, our President and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Kohler, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Robert Traub, our General Counsel. Our comments relate to the financial information released after the close of the U.S. markets yesterday, July 31st, 2025. Our press release and accompanying slides can be found on our investor relations website. Both the prepared commentary and discussion during this call may contain forward-looking statements reflecting the company's current view of future events and their potential effect on Quaker Houghton's operating performance. These statements involve uncertainties and risks, which may cause actual results to differ. The company is under no obligation to provide subsequent updates to these forward-looking statements. This presentation also contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, and the company has provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure in the appendix of the presentation materials, which are available on our website. For additional information, please refer to our filings with the SEC. Now it is my pleasure to hand the call over to Joe. Thank you, Jeff, and good morning, everyone. In the second quarter, we delivered organic volume growth of 2% year over year, led by another strong performance in Asia Pacific. Importantly, all segments delivered organic volume growth on a sequential basis, mitigating sustained macroeconomic pressures. We are gaining traction with our key objectives, refocusing and strengthening the organization around the customer, which ...