Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Victrex Interim Results. [Operator Instructions] I would like to remind all participants that this call is being recorded.

I will now hand over to CEO of Victrex plc, Dr. James Routh, for the presentation. Please go ahead.

James Routh
CEO & Executive Director

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Victrex interim results presentation. For those that don't know me, I'm James Routh and I've been CEO at Victrex since January. I spent the first 4 months working at pace on the short-term actions needed to address the performance issues we've seen over the past few years, along with reviewing and updating our medium-term strategy.

That being said, I've been greatly impressed by the passion and capabilities of the Victrex team, and the fundamentals of the business remain robust. So I'm confident that we can drive dramatically improved financial performance over the medium term.

Today, I'm joined by our CFO, Ian Melling; and our Director of Investor Relations, Andrew Hanson.

In terms of the agenda for today, I'm going to take you through the headlines of our H1 results and then some updates on our end markets, before Ian will take you through the financial performance. Then I'll come back and give you my initial observations of Victrex, provide an update on the previously announced profit improvement plan, and provide a high-level overview of