MSA Safety Incorporated (MSA) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 2, 2023 10:00 AM ET

Corporate Participants

Chris Hepler - Executive Director, Corporate Development & Investor Relations

Nish Vartanian - Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Lee McChesney - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Stanley Elliott - Stifel

Rob Mason - Baird

Operator

Good day and welcome to the MSA First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator Instructions]. Please note, this event is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Chris Hepler. Please go ahead.

Chris Hepler

Thank you. Good morning and welcome to MSA Safety first quarter 2023 earnings conference call. This is Chris Hepler, Executive Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations. With me today are Nish Vartanian, Chairman, President and CEO; Lee McChesney, Senior Vice President and CFO; and Steve Blanco Segment President for the Americas.

Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that matters discussed during this call may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include but are not limited to all projections and anticipated levels of future performance. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those discussed today. These risks, uncertainties and other factors are detailed in our SEC filings.

MSA safety undertakes no duty to publicly update any forward-looking statements made on this call except as required by law. We have included certain non-GAAP financial measures as part of our discussion this morning. The non-GAAP reconciliations are available in the appendix of today's presentation. The presentation and press release are available on our Investor Relations website at investors.msasafety.com.

Moving on to today's agenda. First, Nish will discuss key highlights of the quarter. He will then turn the call over to Lee to discuss our financial performance and outlook. Nish will then conclude with closing remarks. Following our prepared remarks, we will open the call for questions.

With that. I'll turn the call over to Nish.

Nish Vartanian

Thanks, Chris. Good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today.

I'm on Slide four. I want to start with a brief story that has a very important reminder. MSAs purpose runs deep in our company and our employees are very often involved in community work that ties closely to our mission. One of our associates locally here in Pittsburgh, who also serves as a volunteer firefighter responded to a house fire recently, where tragically, two children were killed by the smoke and flames. The investigation identified that there were no smoke detectors in the home, which could have helped save the lives of these children. As a result, he's become passionate about smoke detectors and launched a community event on smoke detector awareness.