Celanese Corporation

Hello, and welcome to Selenese's Q4 2022 Earnings Calling Webcast. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, please press star one again to be placed into question queue. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It's now my pleasure to turn the call over to your host, VP of Investor Relations, Brandon Ayosh. Please go ahead, Brandon. Thank you, Kevin.

Welcome to the Celanese Corporation 4th Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Brandon Ayash, Vice President of Investor Relations, and with me today on the call are Lori Ryerkirk, Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, and Scott Richardson, Chief Financial Officer. Celanese distributed its 4th Quarter earnings release via Business Wire and posted prepared comments on our Investor Relations website yesterday afternoon. As a reminder, today we'll discuss non-GAAP financial measures. You can find definitions of these measures as well as reconciliations to the comparable gap measures on our website. Today's presentation will also include forward-looking statements. Please review the cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, which can be found at the end of both the press release as well as prepared comments. Form 8K reports containing all of these materials have also been submitted to the SEC. Since we published our prepared comments yesterday, we'll go directly to your questions. Kevin, let's go ahead and please open it up for questions.

Thank you. As a reminder, that's star one to be placed in the question queue. Our first question today is coming from John McNulty from BMO Capital Markets, and we do ask you to ask one question, one follow-up, then return to the queue. John, please go ahead.