Michael Siegal | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
David Wolfort | President |
Rick Marabito | Chief Financial Officer |
Andrew Greiff | Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer |
Don McNeeley | President, Chicago Tube & Iron Business |
Martin Englert | Jefferies |
Michael Leshock | KeyBanc Capital Markets |
Aldo Mazzaferro | Mazzaferro Research |
Chris Sakai | Singular Research |
Good morning and welcome to the Olympic Steel 2018 Third Quarter and First Half Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded.
Some statements made on today’s call will be predictive and are intended to be made as forward-looking within the Safe Harbor protections of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and may not reflect actual results. The company does not undertake to update such statements, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting such forward-looking statements. Important assumptions, risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are set forth in the company’s reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q and press releases filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.