Tania Almond | IR Officer |
Fred Festa | Chairman and CEO |
Hudson La Force | President and COO |
Tom Blaser | SVP and CFO |
Kevin McCarthy | Vertical Research Partners |
Christopher Parkinson | Credit Suisse |
Chris Evans | Goldman Sachs |
Jacob Schowalter | Seaport Global |
Ben Kallo | Robert W. Baird |
John Roberts | UBS |
Laurence Alexander | Jefferies |
Chris Kapsch | Loop Capital |
Roger Spitz | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Chris Shaw | Moness, Crespi, Hardt |
Mike Sison | KeyBanc |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the W.R. Grace and Company third quarter 2017 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.