Verbio Se (VBVBF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon everyone and a warm welcome to the Verbio earnings call for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2025-26. Today's speakers are Olaf Tröver, CFO of Verbio and Alina Köhler, Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Strategy. They will walk us through the company's performance, touching on key milestones and current market trends. But before we dive in, a quick housekeeping note. The conference is being recorded and all participants are in a listen-only mode. If you have questions, please submit them using the chat box. We will address all the questions in the Q&A session after the presentation. Please make sure to preface each question with your name and the name of your company in order to be considered. An equity analyst can also ask questions directly via the microphone. Please type the word question into the chat box to be considered, and we will open your line at the beginning of this session. Let me pass the word to Ms. Köhler and Mr. Trüber. The floor is yours. Thank you, Harald, and good day, everyone. Welcome to Verpio's earnings conference call. We will be discussing our first quarter 2025-26 financial and operating results. I'm also delighted to welcome Alina Köhler, Head of Investor Relations, who is joining me today. Slide, please. We've got a bit of a problem with the slide. Give me a second. Yeah, there. Okay. So for that one, we achieved a record biodiesel production in our first quarter. Biodiesel production reached close to 167,000 tons, and the capacity utilization rate was close to 94%. Meanwhile, ethanol production grew by 10% year on year to 154,000 tons. This was purely driven by the ramp up in Nevada and efficiency gains at our ethanol plant in South Bend, Indiana. Biomethane production grew by 24% year on year, also thanks to Nev...