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Good morning and welcome to the Allegheny Technologies Incorporated first quarter 2019 results conference call. Our 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 your telephone keypad. To withdraw from the question queue, you may press star, then two. Please note that this event is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Scott Minder, Vice President, Treasurer, and Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Denise. Good morning, and welcome to the Allegheny Technologies First Quarter 2019 Conference Call. This call is being broadcast on our website at atimetals.com. Participating in the call today are Bob Weatherby, President and Chief Executive Officer, John Sims, Executive Vice President, High Performance Materials and Components segment, Kim Fields, Executive Vice President, Flat World Products, Pat DeCourcy, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, and Kevin Kramer, Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer. If you have connected to this call via the Internet, you should see slides on your screen. For those of you who dialed in, slides are available on our website. After our prepared remarks, we will open the line for questions. During the Q&A session, please limit yourself to two questions to allow time for others. We will try to reach everyone who would like to ask a question. Please note that all forward-looking statements are subject to various assumptions and caveats, as noted in the earnings release and shown on this slide. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Bob.

Thanks, Scott. Good morning to everyone. Thanks for joining us. Before I launch into discussing our first quarter results, I want to welcome our new Flatwell Products Group Leader, Kim Fields, to her first quarterly call. Kim joined us on April 1st from the IDEX Corporation, where she was most recently Group President for Industry and Energy. Kim has a deep and diverse background in the global metals industry, and she's hit the ground running leading API's dedicated and talented Flatwell Products team. You'll hear directly from Kim later in the call. Welcome, Kim.