Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) Presents at Bank of America Global Industrials Conference 2026 Transcript

SA Transcripts159.01K FollowersFollow5ShareSaveCommentsPlay Earnings CallPlay Earnings Call Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM) Bank of America Global Industrials Conference 2026 March 17, 2026 5:40 AM EDT Company Participants John Plant - Executive Chairman & CEO Conference Call Participants Ronald Epstein - BofA Securities, Research Division Presentation Ronald EpsteinBofA Securities, Research Division Thank you all for coming. It's a real honor today to have John Plant here with us. For those of you who don't know John, John is the Executive Chairman and CEO of Howmet Aerospace. So John, thank you for taking the time out. I know it's a crazy busy time in the industry and the world and everything, so thanks for making time to come over. John PlantExecutive Chairman & CEO Thank you. Question-and-Answer Session Ronald EpsteinBofA Securities, Research Division Maybe we start with just timely, last week, you all hosted an investor event in Whitehall. Is there any like high-level highlights that you'd like to mention? I know you guys talked about digital thread and some of the automation you do and some of the various things in the process. John PlantExecutive Chairman & CEO We don't make a regular sort of thing of showcasing our manufacturing. But we thought given the recent, I'll say, significant investments we've made and seeing, let's say, the generational improvements from what we had done for, let's say, 2015 and that level of, I'll say, build-out and the amount of automation that we showcased of, let's say, improving those facilities and expanding in the investments that we had made in building a new plant out on the same campus in 2020, then that was a worthwhile event and thing to do. And then more recently, for the build-out that we did in 2025 and still building out in terms of placement of new equipment, it was worthy of