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| These actions allow us to channel our growth bandwidth in areas that are meaningful and where we have winning advantages, including technology, brands and customer relationships |
| Europe, as I said earlier, we're actually pleased to see flat volume across some of our larger businesses like deco in Europe because we really believe it is bouncing off the bottom |
| So we have those cross-selling opportunities around the world, and we leverage those and see good opportunities for further growth going forward |
| But we're confident, based on our net body shop wins that the volume and growth in this business will be a good story for us |
| So I'm highly confident, Chris, that the things that we've picked as needle-moving investments for our future are going to do just that and move the needle in a positive direction |
| That's another big driver to Industrial segment margin continued improvement |
| It's been quite strong this year |
| And so I'm confident that as we move through 2024, a combination of the swing to positive volume plus the capital deployment that we've talked about a few times here this morning, plus some of the key innovation initiatives that we're launching now and will gain momentum in 2024 |
| Our results were supported by good growth trends and strong execution in several of our leading and technology advantaged businesses, which resulted in record third quarter sales in the aerospace, automotive OEM, automotive refinish and PPG Comex Coatings businesses |
| The selling price increases we implemented earlier this year, primarily in the Performance Coatings segment drove a solid 3% increase for the quarter |
| So you should feel really good about those two businesses continuing record-breaking performance, and we certainly do |
| The third quarter marked the fourth consecutive quarter of year-over-year operating segment margin improvement with aggregate segment margins up 260 basis points |
| This led to both of our operating segments delivering at least 25% earnings growth in the third quarter with the Industrial Coatings segment also delivering higher sequential margins |
| And a lot of that is driven by sustainable products for reducing friction on the hall of ships, and we're getting tremendous pull and we expect that to grow significantly in '24 and beyond |
| So backlogs remain strong |
| In addition to our strong earnings performance, we significantly reduced working capital in total by about $300 million, mainly driven by lower inventories, contributing to the robust operating cash flow generation |
| But we're also confident, given our pricing track record that through a combination of price and productivity, we'll be able to offset the wage inflation that we'll see |
| Again, we do have expect -- again continue strong cash flow in 2024, our earnings growth, supporting that as well as we're still carrying several hundred million dollars of excess inventory as we continue to make good progress in working that down in Q2 and Q3, but we still have a couple hundred million dollars we want to work down over the next six months or so |
| We're going to focus on the areas that we have the best right to win for the future and that are going to drive the best financial and growth performance for the future |
| So we see that the flat volumes, we see as a positive, given what's happened over the last couple of years, with the potential that Europe has stabilized |
| For example, we are pleased with the progress being made supporting our customers' rapid growth of electric vehicles in China with PPG technology advantage products and services |
| We are well positioned with the leading electric vehicle producers and continue to gain share as the production rate increases each quarter, including strong EV export activity out of China |
| In Europe, we're number one in 10 countries with a very strong position with the existing business model |
| This year, we're realizing the benefit of these investments as our powder coating related sales have increased about 15% compared to last year |
| We're winning new business every quarter and supporting our customers' sustainability and productivity objectives, and we expect powder to outgrow the market for a number of years to come |
| I think it's spot on, and I think both segments will see continued year-over-year margin improvement, depending upon with the addition of manufacturing productivity improvements that I mentioned in my opening comments |
| The continued growth an acceleration of the omni-channel that we're building plus the backlogs that our customers continue to experience |
| I remain confident in our team's ability to make it happen |
| Likewise, with PPG Comex, I think this was the 13th quarter in a row of record performance |
| On legacy of PPG and another catalyst for earnings growth going forward is strong cash generation and value-creating capital deployment |
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| Our third quarter sales volumes were impacted by soft global industrial production, which worsened in many countries during the quarter and also by cautious consumer buying patterns in Europe, China and other parts of the world |
| While we expect our automotive OEM business to grow in the fourth quarter in most regions, other portions of our Industrial Coatings segment will be challenged due to sluggish overall global industrial production |
| refinish about some negative volume |
| But Industrial trailed on volumes by 4% and trailed on dollar pricing by 3% |
| It's a function of some customer issues |
| The Industrial segment, we are expecting volumes to be lower, and that includes the assumption that Tim made earlier about the UAW impact |
| Also, we sell to other OEM customers in the region not impacted by the strikes and given the historically low dealer inventory levels, we expect any lost volume will be made up in subsequent quarters |
| But it's been a little slower than historical just given the financing costs and also performance of some companies during these macro challenged environment, sellers, of course, sellers want to sell it to peak EBITDA |
| You said that you're on FIFO and that your raw materials on that basis were down at a high-single digit rate |
| Q3, you heard the earlier question, we did grow both volume and sales by low-single digits, a little lower than where I'd like |
| We are seeing Europe, in our opinion is troughing especially for our business mix |
| Certain other sales volume headwinds are beginning to abate, as we expect China is at or approaching trough levels |
| And right now and heading into a seasonally lower fourth quarter, we expect that to continue |
| We do expect slowing in U.S |
| Q4 will be close, but again, UAW is a big unknown, what it will on how that goes and which plants and which ones we supply, customer mix wise, it's still a bit of an unknown |
| One, frankly, we're starting at a fairly low market position in powder |
| Obviously, oil is going to produce some impact on solvents for us |
| But given the macros in housing, I’d say that was to expect it |
| Vince Morales And Mike, just one more thing on the DIY is, we do know many of the large DIY retailers have destocked in 2023 |
| And some of that backlog is holding up because of skilled labor availability that our customers are seeing |
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