Synthomer plc (SYNT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning and welcome to our 2025 full year results presentation. As usual, I'm here with Lili Leo, our CFO, and Faisal Taba, Head of Investor Relations, and together we look forward to answering your questions at the end. In terms of the agenda, I will provide an overview of our performance and the further strategic progress we made in 2025, despite an extended period of challenging market conditions. Lili will then walk through the 2025 numbers in more detail and update you on the balance sheet developments before I come back to present the actions we have been taking to deliver our strategy of focusing on differentiated specialty products for attractive end markets. Then at the end, we will discuss what we have seen in terms of trading since the start of 2026 and what we expect for the remainder of the year and beyond. I have five points. Starting with our performance in 2025, against the backdrop of a further year of lower-end market demand and the additional challenge presented by the global tariff changes introduced during the second quarter, we delivered gross and EBITDA margin improvement and an overall trading performance fully in line with our January 29 winter trading statement. In the face of volatile market conditions, we continue to rigorously prioritize what is within our control, delivering robust cash, earnings, and margin performance while continuing to focus, simplify, and strengthen the business in accordance with our strategy. Divisionally, we delivered a strong performance in our AS business, which continued to regain share and enhance margins through successful delivery of its reliability and performance improvement program and increasingly important new growth initiatives. In both CCS and HPPM, activity levels were generally lower, which re...