HEXPOL AB (publ)

Welcome to the HEXPOL Q4 presentation. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key five on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to the CEO, Klaas Dahlberg, and CFO, Peter Rosen. Please go ahead.

Peter Rosen Thank you, operator, and good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining in on the HEXPOL Q4 presentation. This is Claes Dahlberg speaking, and I'm here together with our CFO, Peter Olsen. Hello, Peter. I will start with a business update. I will tell you about our latest acquisition, also Piedmont in the US. And I will also mention the efficiency measures we have taken within rubber compounding Americas. Peter will take you through the financials, and I will summarize the quarter. and our focus areas going forward. After that, we are happy to answer your questions.

If you please turn to page four. Let me start by going through the Q4 performance. We improved sales in Europe in the fourth quarter. The conference call will start shortly. drop out here.