Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation

And welcome to the AMCO Pittsburgh Corporation second quarter 2023 earnings conference call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star then one on a touch-tone phone. to withdraw your question, please press star then two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kim Knox.

Please go ahead. Thank you, Marlise, and good morning to everyone joining us on today's second quarter 2023 conference call. Joining me today are Brett McBrayer, our Chief Executive Officer, and Mike McCauley, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. Also joining us on the call today are Sam Lyon, President of Union Electric Steel Corporation, and Dave Anderson, President of Air and Liquid Systems Corporation. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that participants on this call may make statements or comments that are forward-looking and may include financial projections or other statements of the corporation's plans, objectives, expectations, or intentions. These matters involve certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the corporation's control. The corporation's actual results may differ significantly from those projected or suggested in any forward-looking statement due to various risk factors, including those discussed in the corporation's most recently filed Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any obligation to update or otherwise release publicly any revision to our forward-looking statements. A replay of this call will be posted on our website later today. To access the earnings release or webcast replay, please consult the investor section of our website at AmcoPGH.com. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Brett McBrayer, Amco Pittsburgh CEO. Brett?

Thank you, Kim. Good morning, and thank you for joining our call. The share in yesterday's press release recorded an earnings per share of $0.02 for the second quarter and $0.06 per share year-to-date. Our operating income year-to-date is triple that of prior year with solid performances from both segments. A particular note is the continuing growth of the air and liquid segment with another quarter of record-breaking backlog. I challenge Dave Anderson, our air and liquid systems president, to more than double his revenue of 2022. Based on his recent performance, I believe he has taken that challenge to heart. Much work is still ahead as we position ourselves for a strong 2024 and beyond. The completion of our capital improvements and our U.S.-forged assets is critical, and I'm pleased with our progress to date. I also want to note our strong safety performance with recordable and lost-time injury rates continuing to improve. I'd now like to turn the call over to David Anderson, President of Air and Liquid Systems. Thank you, Brett.