NV Bekaert SA (BEKAY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Bekaert's H1 2026 Results Presentation. Thank you for joining us today. Before we begin, as usual, let me draw your attention to the safe harbor statement. This presentation that we will run through today contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect current views of management regarding future events and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Bekaert provides the information in this presentation as of its date and does not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements contained in it in light of new information, future events or otherwise. We also do not claim any liability for statements made or published by third parties and Bekaert will not undertake any obligation to correct such data published by third parties in relation to this or any other publication issued by the company. With this, I now hand