ZOTEFOAMS PLC (ZTF) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ZOTEFOAMS PLC twenty twenty five Interim Results Investor Presentation. So at this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses, which is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO, Ronan Cox. Good afternoon to you. Thank you, Alex, and good afternoon to everyone joining the call this afternoon for the ZOTEFOAMS interim results update. If we go to the first slide, please, Alex. There we go. Okay. So quickly touching on some of the highlights for h one. Very strong revenue growth, up 9% across the group, and that's driven in the main by EMEA, up 11% coming from our consumer and lifestyle sector, and then North America with very strong performance coming from transport and smart technologies. And we are very much along the course of our of our transition from a product to vertical focused business. So as we look at vertical revenues, that consumer lifestyle sales up 16%. As I said, that's really coming from from EMEA, and we can see that in the regional performance. And then transport and smart technology, strong across the group, particularly strong in in North America, as I mentioned. Construction and other industrial, which is our our third vertical, had a more challenging demand in in h one. Not entirely unexpected, principally coming from from lower projects in Asia in our i...