SIGMAROC PLC (SRC) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the SIGMAROC interim results presentation. Before we begin, we would like to submit the following poll, which you will see on your screens. Throughout this presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. However, questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screens or if anyone has dialed in via SIGMAROC at walbrookpr.com. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives today. However, the company will review all questions submitted and publish responses where appropriate. These will be available via your investment company dashboard. Finally, I would like to remind you that this presentation is being recorded. I would now like to hand you over to Chairman, David Barrett Chief Executive, Max Vamorkan Chief Financial Officer, Garth Palmer and Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Jan Van Beak. Max? Thank you very much. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining our results half year results call this afternoon. We've got about 30 slides for you. It takes thirty minutes or so to run through. And after that, there will be plenty of time for questions. Start with section one highlights. The first half of this calendar year was an extremely busy first half. What we've effectively done is build through three transactions Europe's leading lime and minerals business with a footprint right across North Europe. That footprint consists of 2,700,000,000 tons of high purity limestone reserves. They are located in fantastic locations right nearby big industrial hubs, big infrastructure hubs, ports, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea. The construction of this business came through three parts of the CRH Lime deal, which we announce...