Cindi Buckwalter | Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications |
Doug Dietrich | Chief Executive Officer |
Matt Garth | Chief Financial Officer |
Jon Hastings | Group President, Performance Materials |
Brett Argirakis | Vice President and Managing Director, Minteq International Inc |
D. J. Monagle | Group President, Specialty Minerals and Refractories |
Silke Kueck | J.P. Morgan |
Rosemarie Morbelli | Gabelli & Company |
Dan Moore | CJS Securities |
Steve Schwartz | First Analysis |
Good day. And welcome to the Second Quarter 2018 Minerals Technologies’ Earnings Call. Today’s call is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Cindi Buckwalter, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications for Minerals Technologies. Please go ahead, Ms.