SIGMAROC PLC (SRC) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the SIGMAROC PLC interim results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Max von Malkin. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you very much for joining our interim results call for the first half of twenty twenty five. We have 30 odd slides for you in five sections, which I will run you through highlights, performance finance, strategic delivery and an outlook at the end. Return to slide four now, some highlights to start with. First and foremost, phenomenal performance all around in a market backdrop, which was far from obvious. And I know that the teams in the business have done an exceptional job to deliver synergies, integration, the net road the net zero road map and the development of the group more generally. The management of volume stands out here. We had quite some headwinds in various markets. Core volumes down three percent, additional volumes by choice or by exiting some contracts a further 6%, which made the first half, from a volume perspective, a challenging backdrop. But we did perform very well through that first half through the delivery of synergies and therefore financial performance on budget, margins up, EPS up, leverage down. CO2 was remaini...