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President and CEO Henri de Sauvage-Nolting comments on the results for the third quarter of 2017

The third quarter has been challenging, mainly due to the consequences from a fire on a production line in the factory in Turnhout, Belgium. This has created ripple effects such as production capacity constraints in our factory network, which has to some extent been compensated by additional shifts in other factories and outsourced volumes. In total, this has resulted in lower production volumes and higher production costs. In addition, organic sales have continued to decline, mainly due to specific challenges in a few markets.