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| The investments we are making on the Build to Last, to grow and improve all aspects of our business will position us well to better serve our customers and achieve breakout performance when demand returns |
| Overall, it is clear we remain in a difficult point in the cycle, and our teams are doing an excellent job controlling what we can control and focusing on serving our customers |
| I'm proud of our work this quarter and our continued resilience and commitment as we navigate a tough environment |
| We've built a powerful culture and business systems at Greif that both serve as a flywheel to consistently improve our competitive positioning, attract and retain great talent and create value as we grow the business |
| And in all of these, we're seeing actually volumes better than our legacy business |
| The cultural fit, again seems extremely strong |
| Combined with Lee, Reliance, and Ipackchem, we think a successful outcome with Ionkraft will offer our customers a full suite of custom packaging and barrier options and provide multiple growth levers for Greif for years to come |
| I mean, it has gone extremely well |
| Gabe, I would say, so far, we're extremely pleased |
| APAC and EMEA volume showed some signs of life on better petrochemical and lubricant demand as manufacturing activity improved in those regions, while North America remains weak |
| Our Build to Last strategy is designed to help us be better stewards of our customers' goods and our vision is to be the best in the world at customer service |
| So we're really pleased |
| I'm proud of the dedication, commitment and resilience from our global drive teams and excited for what we are building together |
| And while our closures business is predominantly internally focused, we see tremendous potential to grow beyond our current footprint, both organically and through acquisition |
| Corrugated converting volumes were up 3% and containerboard mill volumes were up above that level year-over-year as converting customers began to reorder paper and rebuild low inventory positions as they saw the demand outlook improving in late '23 and early '24 |
| Our APAC business saw some bright spots in the quarter as volumes in our China business improved slightly on both a sequential and year-on-year basis |
| Our PPS business executed well in the quarter with improving volume trends in containerboard, offset by weaker box board demand |
| In EMEA, we also saw improving lubricants and end market demand reflected more of the low comparison versus an improving sequential trends as eurozone PMI remained well below 50 through January |
| The GIP team posted solid results given this backdrop with improving gross profit and flat EBITDA margins on lower sales year-over-year |
| This is a truly historic period for our GIP business and makes the results from that team over the past year and a half even more impressive |
| We are excited by the prospects when volume trends inflects |
| Our team's combined pricing discipline and cost management in GIP, in partnership with our global operations and supply chain teams drove another quarter of solid margin performance in our seasonably slow first quarter |
| This business improves both the environment and our economics, a powerful combination |
| So we expect that rising mill volumes in containerboard and elsewhere, if they continue, will lift volumes in our URB and tube and core business as well |
| Our PDS business saw a mix of volume trends with containerboard clearly improving, and our boxboard business still trending down slightly |
| I want to thank our global GIP colleagues for another quarter of excellent execution in a very tough environment |
| The integration has gone extremely well |
| In summary, we see a long run rate for growth in many of our businesses and intend to continue along this path of transforming our portfolio to meet the market needs and better serve our customers |
| And actually, it's going very, very well |
| This partnership is representative of our commitment to innovation and packaging that meets the growing sustainability demands of the marketplace and will enable us to better serve our customers in many end markets, including agrochemicals and food and beverage |
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| This continued low level of industrial activity has driven GIP volumes down 19% in the quarter and 36% over a two-year period |
| On the margin side, our PPS business was challenged in Q1 with a price cost squeeze driven by delayed recognition of our announced price increases combined with rising OCC costs, which rose by $55 per ton or nearly 160% year-over-year for the quarter |
| So as I said, Ghansham, we -- throughout January, volume has been depressed |
| Volumes remain under pressure in most regions throughout the world and order patterns remain tight as customers face limited visibility to demand improvement |
| Volumes in that region remain weaker, and we do not at present see any material volume inflections |
| North America, still our largest and most diverse region with both rigids and paper packaging remained our weakest market globally in the first quarter |
| Volumes remained under pressure in most parts of the world through the quarter, consistent with our expectations and full-year guidance |
| Nonetheless, the lack of paper price recognition, coupled with significant cost inflation resulted in a 540 basis point margin squeeze in Q1, which we anticipate will largely recur in Q2, but then improve in the second half as RISI indices better reflect market pricing |
| How is that factored into virgin capacity, making paper? How is that factored into your outlook? Larry Hilsheimer Yes, we have continued to see just demand being weak |
| While our team's execution remains solid, the combined effect of extended slow demand and the significant negative price/cost dynamic in our paper business led to a decrease in year-over-year performance |
| Our tube and core volumes remained stable sequentially through the quarter, but are still down 4% year-over-year |
| I would really focus on the chemical customers or the chemical end segments, both in the biggest segment is the bulk and commodity chemicals and that has been significantly down |
| So we're lowering our estimate of SG&A for the rest of the year about $6 million, and our closures business is actually turned out, Ole mentioned a little bit about that in our comments |
| We still see a little bit of destocking |
| And sometimes the pushback that we all hear is sometimes companies do acquisitions to mask some weakness in the underlying business or something like that |
| And then in we couldn't be more pleased with ColePak |
| They're dealing with the same kind of demand challenges that the entire industry is, but we sort of knew that going in |
| Michael Hoffman So the lube market seems to have corrected their end market oversupply all the finished goods, the destocking |
| But again, it's very sporadic depending on what end segment we're looking at |
| So is there early green shoots there? Ole Rosgaard As I said, we've seen pockets sort of sporadic progress, but it's still not enough to say that it's permanent |
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