Umicore Sa Ord New (UMICF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome. My name is Kelvin and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Unicorps 2026 Q1 update and outlook call. Please note that this call is being recorded. After the introduction by management, there will be a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question during this time, simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. Please be advised that we allow one question per participant. Thank you. I would now like to hand the call over to Bart Schaaf, Unicor CEL, and Juanes Paterin, Unicor CFO. You may now go ahead, please. Yes, thank you. So welcome, and welcome all, and thank you for being here on this Thursday evening. So first of all, before I go to the Q1 update and the outlook, of course, I would like to give some more context to the leadership changes that we have announced this morning. So first of all, we welcome our new CFO as of August 1st. She has a strong record at public companies. She has worked in the chemical industry, manufacturing, engineering industry. At this point, she's the CFO of Sintemer, before that at Sentra, XR. and speech detection, but she's also a non-exec director and member of the audit committee at PCC-PLC. So, I believe she's a strong asset for Unicor to also continue on the great path that I set forward together with on focus on operational excellence and capital discipline. Now, next to that, we are also establishing a role, which is this chief digital and transformation officer within the EOT. you know that we have started the transformation journey, that we will be more process-oriented, and that we also would like to establish a stronger performance culture. And now we want to drive that focus across the group even more. We ...