Verallia,Courbevoie (VRLAF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to Viralia First Half 2025 Financial Results Analyst Call. My name is Laura and I will be your coordinator for today's event. Please note this call is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be on listener limit. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the call. This can be done by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad to register your questions. If you require assistance at any point, please press star zero and you will be connected to an operator. I will now hand you over to your host, Patrice Luca, CEO, to begin today's conference. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us and welcome to our H1 Financial Results Call-in. So as usual, Nathalie and I will go through our presentation and we'll have the Q&A session. I will share with you some key highlights and Nathalie will present in detail our numbers. And then I will come back on our guidance. As an introduction, just to remind you that Zeralia is the global leader in glass packaging. We are number one in Europe. number two in Latin America, and number three worldwide. On this chart, you have our ID card. You have on the left, the 24 split of our sales by segment. And as you may already know, one of our strong assets is our customer base, more than 10,000 customers, and the diversified end balance and market in which we operate. We do operate in 12 countries, with 35 plants, with 64 furnaces. Please note also that we are running 19 toilet recycling centers, allowing us to control about 50% of our needs for external toilets. Let's now move to some key highlights. First, I would like to share will view the completion of two key investments in two new furnaces, two brownfields, one in Brazil and the other one in Italy. Both pro...