Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Neo Performance Materials Inc. Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. And I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Edgar Lee. Thank you. Please go ahead.

Edgar Lee

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Edgar Lee, and as Chair of Neo Performance Materials Inc., I welcome you to this Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders. The meeting will now come to order. I will chair the meeting and ask Karen Murray to act as Secretary. Shirley Tom of Computershare Trust Company of Canada, the company's transfer agent, has been appointed to act as scrutineer.

Notice of the meeting, including the management information circular, was mailed to shareholders on or about May 19, 2026. To facilitate broad shareholder voting and engagement, I have determined as Chair of the meeting to extend the proxy voting cutoff deadline for all shareholders to 8:00 a.m. on June 17, 2026. Accordingly, valid proxies received before that extended deadline have been accepted and counted by the scrutineer.

I have been advised by the scrutineer that prior to the meeting proxies were received from the holders of more than 25.4 million common shares or 60.6% of all shares entitled to be voted. As a result, we have a quorum for this meeting, and the meeting is properly constituted for the transaction of business. In view of the need to attend to a number of formal corporate matters, certain shareholders who are members of management have volunteered to