Nordson Corporation

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Nordstrom Corporation third quarter fiscal year 2021 conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require further assistance, please press star 0. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Laura Mahoney, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Thank you. Good morning. This is Laura Mahoney, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. I'm here with Sundaram Nagarajan, our President and CEO, and Joseph Kelly, Executive Vice President and CFO. we welcome you to our conference call today, Tuesday, August 31st, 2021, to report Nordson's fiscal 2021 third quarter results. You can find both our press release as well as our webcast slide presentation that we will refer to during today's call on our website at www.nordson.com forward slash investors. This conference call is being broadcast live on our investor website and will be available there for 14 days. There will be a telephone replay of the conference call available until Tuesday, September 7th. During this call, references to non-GAAP financial metrics will be made. A reconciliation of these metrics to the most comparable GAAP metric was provided in the press release issued yesterday. Before we begin, please refer to slide two of our presentation where we note that certain statements regarding our future performance that are made during this call may be forward-looking based upon Northen's current expectations. These statements may involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors as discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could cause actual results to differ. Moving to today's agenda on slide three, Naga will discuss the third quarter highlights. He will then turn the call over to Joe to review sales and earnings performance for the total company and the two business segments. Joe will also discuss the cash flow and balance sheet. Naga will conclude with high-level commentary about our enterprise performance, as well as our updated fiscal 2021 full-year guidance. We will then be happy to take your questions. With that, I'll turn to slide four and hand the call over to Naga.

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining Nordstrom's fiscal 2021 third quarter conference call. First and foremost, I want to congratulate the Nordstrom team on another record quarter. During this quarter, we continue to benefit from the execution of our NBS Next growth framework in combination with robust end market demand. Investments in industrial complex and the strengthening medical and electronics end markets drove record results in the quarter. I'm also pleased with the resilience of our colleagues In this dynamic macro environment that continues to be plagued by supply chain, labor, and COVID concerns, our division leaders are deploying NBS Next to focus resources on the greatest growth opportunities in their respective businesses. I'll speak more about the business including the recent announcement of the NDC Technologies acquisitions in a few moments. But first, I'll turn the call over to Joe to provide a detailed perspective on our financial results for the quarter. Joe?