Cindi Buckwalter | Head of Investor Relations |
Doug Dietrich | Chief Executive Officer |
Matt Garth | Chief Financial Officer |
Brett Argirakis | Vice President & Managing Director, Minteq International Inc. |
D.J. Monagle | Group President, Specialty Minerals & Refractories |
Jon Hastings | Group President, Performance Materials |
Daniel Moore | CJS Securities |
Silke Kueck | JPMorgan |
Rosemarie Morbelli | G. Research |
Steve Schwartz | First Analysis |
David Silver | CL King |
Good day, everyone, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2019 Minerals Technologies Earnings Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Cindi Buckwalter, Head of Investor Relations for Minerals Technologies.
Please go ahead Ms. Buckwalter.