Stepan Company

One moment for our next question. Abby, can we have Mike jump back in the queue? Yes, one moment. Our next question comes from Dave Storms with StoneGate. Your line is open.

I mentioned earlier that the Pasadena plant is expecting 90% of the cost for the year and not expected to be up and running until the middle of next year. Should we expect that to be running at full capacity or should we expect there to be a a couple quarters worth of ramp up as Pasadena gets fully operational.

Yeah, the Lander statement is more accurate. So when we think about starting up an asset of this size, there's a lot of unit operations that have to go through commissioning. And more importantly, the product mix that we'll be putting through there, some of it is highly specialized and there's customer qualification periods. and protocols that we have to follow. So it'll be a ramp up in the second half of the year for sure.