Eric W. Norris | Albemarle Corp. |
Luke C. Kissam | Albemarle Corp. |
Scott A. Tozier | Albemarle Corp. |
John Mitchell | Albemarle Corp. |
Silvio Ghyoot | Albemarle Corp. |
Raphael Crawford | Albemarle Corp. |
Dylan Campbell | Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
Scott Goldstein | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
David Huang | Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. |
Vincent Stephen Andrews | Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
Daniel Rizzo | Jefferies LLC |
John Roberts | UBS Securities LLC |
Arun Viswanathan | RBC Capital Markets LLC |
Aleksey Yefremov | Nomura Instinet |
Colin Rusch | Oppenheimer & Co. |
Joel Jackson | BMO Capital Markets (Canada) |
Kevin W. McCarthy | Vertical Research Partners LLC |
Chris Kapsch | Loop Capital Markets LLC |
Peter Osterland | SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the First Quarter 2018 Albemarle Corporation Earnings Conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session.
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr.