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| As described on slide four, we seek to drive long-term equity value creation via a consistent improvement in our three operational value drivers, which are; profitable new business, continual productivity improvements, and pricing to reflect the value our product and services provide |
| And no matter what the fire season is like next year, I'm fully confident we will drive value at each price productivity and profitable new business |
| We think our business has very high likelihood, predictable long-term secular growth, but it's not a business in which we can predict what the next quarter or in this case, looking out five quarters is going to look like |
| We expect to have a tremendous fourth quarter based on our backlog and orders, and we really feel very good about that business |
| But at a high qualitative level, suppressants had a just a tremendous third quarter top line and margin |
| All three of these positive drivers are the result of the rigorous application of our 3P's operating strategy, which we will continue to drive going forward, irrespective of end market conditions across our businesses |
| Two, long-term secular growth tailwinds |
| Four, significant free cash flow generation with higher returns on tangible capital |
| The drivers behind this year-to-date sales and adjusted EBITDA outperformance relative to the decline in acres burned are: first, improved unit economics throughout our global retardant business; second, continued strong performance in our international retardant markets; and third, continued excellent performance in our suppressants business |
| We will continue to relentlessly push to raise the bar on ourselves, and we expect to thrive in any future environment |
| We think we have a tremendous business |
| One, recurring and predictable revenue streams |
| Perimeter is the gold standard as far as the efficacy and safety of our products, the quality of our service and the passion, dedication and integrity of our team |
| I'm very comfortable that it will |
| We plan to attain this goal by owning, operating and growing uniquely high quality businesses |
| Good morning, everyone |
| Well, thank you, everybody, and see everybody again next quarter |
| We're very comfortable that it's transitory and it will end |
| We put a lot of effort into optimizing our plan to -- on the one hand, always meet demand and never self-load air tanker, on the other hand, to be as cost conscious as possible |
| And five, the potential for opportunistic consolidation |
| Appreciate all the color |
| We define uniquely high quality businesses through the following five very specific economic criteria |
| Thank you for joining us |
| Thank you very much |
| Brian DiRubbio Great |
| Thank you |
| Thank you |
| In addition to our three operational value drivers, we seek to maximize equity value creation through a clear focus on the allocation of our capital, as well as the management of our capital structure |
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| As we discussed previously, this business has experienced a uniquely weak demand environment, which we continue to believe is a temporary phenomenon tied to inventory destocking activity in the specialty chemical supply chain |
| Third quarter sales in our Specialty Products business were $24.4 million, down 37% versus the prior year and $72.5 million year-to-date, down 35% versus the prior year |
| Third quarter adjusted EBITDA in our Fire Safety business was $56 million, down 7% versus the prior year and $69.2 million year-to-date, down 15% versus the prior year |
| Third quarter consolidated sales were $142.7 million, down 11% versus the prior year and $262.7 million year-to-date, down 18% versus the prior year |
| Third quarter sales in our Fire Safety business were $118.3 million, down 3% versus the prior year and $190.2 million year-to-date, down 8% versus the prior year |
| Third quarter adjusted EBITDA in our Specialty Products business was $5.4 million, down 64% versus the prior year and $16.4 million year-to-date, down 61% versus the prior year |
| Third quarter consolidated adjusted EBITDA was $61.5 million, down 19% versus the prior year and $85.6 million year-to-date, down 31% versus the prior year |
| Despite the greater than 40% year-over-year decline in year-to-date US acres burned ex-Alaska, year-to-date, Fire Safety segment sales and adjusted EBITDA declined 8% and 15%, respectively, versus the same period last year |
| We frankly had seven consecutive mild quarters, mild fire season |
| I was having some trouble getting into the queue here, so I might have missed it |
| This is 43% below the same period in 2022, 62% below 2021, 71% below 2020 and 54% below the 10-year average |
| The 2023 US fire season was mild with approximately 2.1 million acres burned ex-Alaska through Q3 |
| Before turning the call over to Chuck, I will reiterate the comment I made previously around the competitive environment in our retardant business |
| We've repeatedly stated that while we expect predictable long-term growth in our Fire Safety business, we also expect quarterly and annual variability tied primarily to the severity of the North American fire season |
| Just as we think about sort of the next couple of quarters and the -- particularly inventory, are you still going to be running your plants to still full out? Just trying to see how you're going to be operating your business just given the weak backdrop we've had |
| We were surprised by the duration and magnitude of the destock |
| I apologize |
| While it continues to be difficult to predict precisely when the destock will end, we believe that it should end once channel inventories are depleted |
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