Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. At this time, we would like to welcome everyone to Braskem’s Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. Today with us we have Carlos Fadigas, CEO; Mario Augusto da Silva, CFO; and Pedro Teixeira, IR Controller and Project Finance Director. We would like to inform you that this event is being recorded and all participants will be in listen-only mode during the company’s presentation. After Braskem remarks are completed, there will be a question-and-answer session. At that time, further instructions will be given. [Operator Instructions] We have simultaneous webcast that maybe accessed through Braskem’s IR website, www.braskem.com.br/ir. The slide presentation may be downloaded from this website. Please feel free to flip through the slides during the conference call. There will be a replay facility for this call on the website. We remind you that questions which will be answered during the Q&A session maybe posted in advance on the website. Before proceeding, let me mention that forward-looking statements are being made under the Safe Harbor of Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1996. Forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of Braskem management and on information currently available to the company. They involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions because they relate to future events and therefore depend on circumstance that may or may not occur in the future. Investors should understand that general economic conditions, industry conditions, other operating factors could also affect the future results of Braskem and could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Now, I will turn the conference over to Pedro Teixeira, IR Controller and Project Finance Director. Mr. Teixeira, you may begin your conference.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for participating in another Braskem earnings conference call. Today, we will be commenting on our results for the third quarter and the first nine months of 2015. We would like to remind you that pursuant to the Brazilian federal law, the results presented in today’s presentation reflect the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards, in IFRS. The financial information in today’s presentation has been reviewed by independent external auditors. Now, let’s go to the next slide where we will begin our comments. On Slide 3, we present the highlights for the third quarter of 2015. The favorable international market dynamics and the new exchange rate level supported an increase in exports. Resin sales for foreign markets totaled 454,000 tons, up 22% and 43% compared to the second quarter 2015 and third quarter 2014 respectively. USA and Europe business unit reached a new polypropylene sales record this quarter, with 502,000 tons, an increase by 2% from the previous quarter. Construction of the Mexican project continued to move ahead. The project reached 98% of completion and pre-commissioning activities are already in progress. Brazilian economic recession has been affecting the resin demand in the country. Total resin demand in the third quarter reached 1.2 million tons, 1% higher when compared to the previous quarter, however, 11% lower when compared with the same quarter as of 2014. Braskem sales achieved 866,000 tons on the third quarter 2015, 9% higher than the second quarter and 8% lower when compared to the 2014. If we exclude the Rio de Janeiro cracker, whose production has been limited by a lower supply of feedstock, the rate would have reached 95%. The high utilization level is explained by good operational performance, the increase in competitiveness of naphtha-based crackers when compared to gas-based…

Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Mr. Pedro Medeiros from Citigroup would like to make a question.

Hi, Fadigas, Mario. As I said on the Portuguese conference call, congratulations for the results. I just had a follow-up question for that. Can you elaborate a bit further on your expectation for the polypropylene margins in the U.S. part of the business? I understand that since the second quarter, margins have been very, very strong partially driven by lower propylene prices. Can you comment a bit more about the sustainability of those margins throughout the fourth quarter and 2016?

Sure, Pedro. We have seen healthy increasing margins, actually beginning 2014 if we compare the performance of polypropylene, our polypropylene business in the U.S. from ‘14 to ‘15 seem a healthy increase in margins. And we see the dynamic happening throughout this year and actually getting stronger over the year. In that regard, we do expect to have a better fourth quarter than we had in the third quarter. So, that’s the dynamic from quarter-to-quarter. On top of that, it’s important to emphasize two other things. First of all, we have seen the market demand in most of what the producers are able to produce in the U.S. So, the market is getting tighter and tighter and that’s the trend that we see happening going forward. So, it’s a healthy demand. If you think about segments like the automotive segment, where we have a good market share and if you just look at the average growth for GDP in the U.S. between 2.5% and 3%. So, on the demand side, we see good demand. It’s not an easy market for you to send polypropylene into the U.S. So, the local producers are enjoying, I should say, certain logistic advantage or logistic protection, if you wish. On the other extreme of that, we have a very positive dynamic on the raw materials as well with the production of oil, light oil. We have the refineries running more than ever. We have the PDH coming on stream. Dow Chemical PDH is going to start operations at the end of this year. For the next year, we have the startup of the enterprise PDH. Formosa is also building a PDH. So, you have at least two very relevant routes for the production of propylene. So, the raw material is very competitive. Just to…

Okay, thank you so much. Very useful. Just as a follow-up to it, your response, when you talk about considering to do a new polypropylene plant in the U.S., would you mind classifying which kind of stage of development the plant is ballpark capacity side and operations startup date that is currently being considered?

Sure. We are still in the engineering phase. We have some way to grow as we move into the other phase of engineering, CO2 and CO3. It’s not a complex theme especially coming from our mix perspective of union petrochemical complexity of one polypropylene line is not that complex. So, what I am trying to say is that moving to CO2 and CO3 could be a very quick process, but we don’t have a final decision made. We don’t have a final union made. What I can tell you at this point is simply what makes sense, distribute what we call large scale plant, and the large scale plant would be something around 400 KT, 400,000 tons per year. So ballpark, that’s what’s being considered.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

Thank you so much, Fadigas.

Thank you, too. Bye-bye.

Ms. [indiscernible] from Bank of America Merrill Lynch would like to make a question.

Thank you very much for the call. I am sure you have answered this on the Portuguese call before, but there have been – so my first question, I guess its two questions in one, has to do with the naphtha agreement with Petrobras. And I think it was the press conference that you had yesterday that said there were important differences on the price level that Braskem was willing to pay versus what Petrobras was willing to pay. There was also a news report out today. I think you know global, that Petrobras saying that you had reached an agreement and they were just having an outside consultant review it. So, it’s still a little bit confusing. I guess that sort of the first part of the question is if you can comment on what the status is. And the second part is I know the current agreement is just for a 45-day period. I know that your credit rating agencies are watching this very carefully. Fundamentals are doing well and very strong right now, but I know it’s one of the factors for which the two agencies that have the negative watch have the negative watches domestically. So, I would appreciate any enlightenment you could provide on that topic for us, because we would like to see you stay at your BBB- investment grade rating levels?

Okay. This is Carlos Fadigas speaking. Thanks for your question. On the market front, what we have right now is a 45-day extension that will expire in December ‘15. We – I do expect – I hope that in December 15, we signed a long-term contract. I have had that expectation before and it ended up on an extension. I do hope that this time, it really materialize into a multiyear contract. That’s what we are targeting. Regarding price levels, what we said at the press conference today, just to make clear what’s our position regarding price of naphtha. What we said yesterday is that we believe that the variable formula that could vary around prices, European prices, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the reference price would be better suited to the changing reality of oil/petrochemical industry. So, we have advocated that we should have a formula that would vary between let’s say, 93% of ADA and the 110% of ADA. Or this could be 95% to 105% of ADA. And actually in periods of time where both oil and naptha are low, we would be a premium. And when it’s at higher levels, we should, we at Braskem, should get a discount. And this variable price would, as I said help smooth the changes in scenarios. I mean they do happen. If you go back 18 months, we would get to a point where naphtha was at $900 per ton, and now it’s $400 and something. So, these vary over time. And if we were to sign a long-term contract that should help us. And that was mentioned yesterday, just to make – just to clarify that at this point with the current result we have, Braskem could pay more than other reference. When I say crude, it’s both – because…

Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. But let me just ask you a follow-up. Let’s just say count increasing diversity and options going forward, I know it’s very difficult today because I believe your facilities are connected to Petrobras’ refineries and so forth. But let’s say hypothetically, it did make sense to open up your imports to more than the 30% that you currently import. Would you need to invest in additional pipeline or other sort of transmission facilities, so that could accept a greater percentage of imports of naphtha?

Well, let me answer to you in two different ways. First, from a technical objective point of view, yes some investment will be required, right. But the second point of my answer is that we don’t see that make much sense. And that’s also something that has been on the table in the negotiations and the arguments of these negotiations with Petrobras. We have to bear in mind that the Brazilian petrochemical sector has been developed to process local naphtha. We didn’t create the sector to run on imported naphtha. And it’s a very tough business for you to be competitive globally, especially shale gas for you to run, a petrochemical complex – so for you to run a petrochemical industry based on imported naphtha. To be honest with you, Brazil would have never built its petrochemical industry if we were to rely on imported naphtha. It’s simply the math doesn’t add up. If you think about what is happening right now with Japan, if you think about what is happening now in some other places, we are simply shutting down their capacity. Europe itself is not buying imported naphtha, but it’s tried to these very expensive raw materials closing plants, let alone paying logistics on top of naptha. So this 30% we have is, I would say to a certain extent a weakness. We have a weak spot. It’s something we wouldn’t like to see growing. So although we could from a pure logistics point of view, from a pure technical pipeline/storage point of view, would be done, because Brazil is abundant in both oil and naphtha and we should be supplied locally. That’s the logic behind this industry for the last 40 years. And we hope to see that support in the industry for the foreseeable future.

Okay. Thank you very much. Good luck with your negotiations.

Thank you very much. Let me pass on to Mr. Mario.

Hi and regarding your second question about the rating agents, let me just comment. Yes, the uncertainty regarding the naphtha contract is affecting our rating, especially in two of the three rating agents. But on a qualitative basis, because on a quantitative basis, all the three rating agencies recognized the quality of our numbers, the evolution of our pro formas, the deleverage, the strong position in liquidity that we have at this point. So I am – needless to say that all the efforts that the management team at this point is to reach an agreement on that contract. And as a consequence, we could move-on on that topic. So that is the current position and the dialogue we have with the rating agencies regarding this point.

Okay. Well, I hope – we all hope that it works out. So good luck on that also.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr. Pablo Castelo Branco from Itaú BBA would like to make a question.

Hi. It’s actually Diego Mendes from Itaú BBA. Good afternoon Fadigas and Mario. So two questions for you guys, the first one is related to the situation of the Mora [ph] plant, if you have any kind of guidance of what’s going to be the financial impact? And now also if this plant has any kind of insurance if they are going to cover in the loss of the plant. And then second regarding the PVC demand here in Brazil, we saw a very significant drop in the sales in the country and it’s actually for the second quarter that is happening also, if I am not mistaken and if I am, please correct. But you guys are losing some kind of market share in the PVC sales. So if you could tell us what are your expectations for PVC going forward, if you plan to increase your market share here in Brazil or if you are going to continue exporting the amount of volume that you did on the third quarter? That’s it. Thank you.

Okay. Let me start with Mora and then move on to PVC, right. First of all at this point, we are forecasting to have the plant back run at the third week of this month of November. It has stopped – the accident happened on October 14. So we are talking roughly about something between 30 days and 40 days of this plant being offline. The main concern is actually safety. It is an industrial site, but it’s surrounded by community, by houses and residences and so on. It’s actually one of the few that are unfortunately are so close to the community. The other ones are located on industrial districts. While this one was an industrial district some 40 years ago, but in the end, population moved closer and closer to the plant. So that’s why safety is our top priority, and we do believe that we are going to be able to bring it back online at the third week. In terms of losses, there are no relevant, let’s say, physical loss if you look at the asset itself. We didn’t lose much, I mean with none on perspective of this [indiscernible]. What we will end up losing is the profits we are not going to be lacking throughout 40 days, right. It’s the fact that that will be offline in a period of good margins. This number right now is being been calculated around $50 million. And it’s 95%, more than that percent related exclusively to the profits we are not going to make. And that we will show up at the fourth quarter results, would be fully reflected at the fourth quarter results. The accident happened and hopefully, we will be – the plant will be back both during the fourth quarter. with that easy shoot, let me pass to Mario Augusto to comment a little bit on that.

Hi, Diego. We do have insurance to cover the damages on the property of the facility. And so we do expect to get all the necessary investments, put the plant back on operation, to be recovered by insurance. As Fadigas mentioned, the only portion that there is going to be an impact is associated with the profit that you would make during the period that you don’t have production at that plant, but the whole fixed asset portion of the story is covered by insurance.

Just to make it clear, for the bigger portion of the loss that is associated with the profits we are not going to make, we are not going to reach the threshold to use the insurance on that piece. We are also insured for...

Business interruption.

Business interruption, but the threshold is higher than...

Usually business interruption, the threshold is 60 days and we expect to have the petrochemical complex back on operation much before that, okay?

Okay. Let me now move on to PVC. What we have in Brazil is a dramatic reduction in demand of PVC, right? It’s one of the resins that has most hit by the recession, right? So, demand on a yearly basis on PVC would go down as much as 15%. Out of the three resins, if polyethylene is one side, more diversified and therefore associated with consumer goods. And therefore, you have to lower this lower hit. PVC is at the extreme, very much associated with long-term consumption with global growth and therefore with the biggest drop in demand. Because of that, PVC’s future market share is a doubtful one. We actually increased the market share from the third – the second to the third quarter. The second, we had roughly – we had 46% market share. It has gone up to 51%. We are exporting some PVC and we will remain exporting due to the new size, smaller size of the Brazilian demand. So, we are going to defend our market share. We are going to work on holding the market share we have, but we also want to try to understand as much as we can, so that we export the excess. We kept the benefit of running the plants close to full and we export. So, that’s one of the reasons why we increased from only 3,000 tons in the second quarter to roughly 50,000 tons on the third quarter at the same time you were recovering market share. And we are just planning to keep doing on that, I mean as I said, keep our market share rather full and export the balance due to the smaller new size of the Brazilian demand. And actually, I can only hope that at a certain point in the short future, we have both the housing market and the infrastructure market back on track, so you could see more demand for PVC in Brazil.

Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you, too.

Mr. Vicente Falanga Neto from Bank of America Merrill Lynch would like to make a question.

Hello, good afternoon. Thank you, Fadigas. Thank you, Mario. I apologize if I am somehow being repetitive, because we were just able to join the call, but I have basically two questions. First of all, one element that has been surprising us is Braskem’s amazing ability to place its products in the international markets. Based on our data, exports for PE, PP and PVC have reached most recent 150,000 tons per month more or less, which is almost twice as much as the normalized levels for the past five years. My question is based on your vast experience in the industry do you think most important element in this case is to hold exports right now at these levels is mostly the FX? And do you see more room for imports to improve even further if FX levels continue to depreciate? And my second question, we understood Braskem’s explanations regarding the booking of the ethylene 21 debt as a hedge to future sales. What we are trying to get more color on is the effect of this looking forward? Is it fair to assume that when we have an FX depreciation, the company will now have a significant FX gain in the financial expenses until the plant starts to ramp up? Thank you very much.

Thank you, Vicente. You are right, we have increased exports we have been mentioning that for 150 KT in this quarter, there’s roughly 50 KT there, but the other 100 are for polyethylene and polypropylene that we began exporting. I think that the main driver, the main factor that has been enabling us to export these spreads. The FX, the exchange rate helps naturally, having BRL3.8 exchange rate is way better than having BRL2, 2 to 1 reais to dollar. But the part of our fixed cost that is associated with Brazilian reais is not that big. So yes, the exchange rate is important, but the spreads have been helping more. We have very open spread at this point. The fact that not disclosed, not that far from the cost of gas makes us more competitive when compared to the U.S. producers. That has allowed to, let’s say, spend some of these open spreads to pay for freight and still have a positive netback in Brazil. If the spreads close, then at a certain point, they will drop below the cost of moving these goods all the way to Asia and we may reduce our capacity to export. Having said that naturally exporting to South America, exporting to Europe will remain part of our strategy, but we may go back if spreads move down, we may go back to the situation we have, let’s say in ‘13, 2013. But typically, we would reduce the final production, the last 100, 150 KT of production in one of our sites, typically at the [indiscernible] site, because the last tons, the last tons wouldn’t be profitable. So I would credit more to the spreads rather to the FX. Naturally, both helped. But spreads, we feel are more relevant to support the exports. I will pass to Mario who should comment on our hedge accounting.

Hi, Vicente, this is Mario. Let me comment on the hedge accounting question. Just remember that on the Braskem SA level, we have adopted the hedge accounting July ‘13. And we are going to start seeing this FX expense in the net – in the income of Braskem beginning next year in 2016 until 2024. In the case of Braskem-Idesa, which is the Mexican project, we have adopted by the end of 2014. And also we are going to start seeing these FX expenses in the income of Braskem-Idesa and the consequence of that, on the consolidated income of Braskem beginning in ‘16. In the case of the Mexican project, the adoption of the hedge accounting was based on basically two things. First, the project will have a portion of its production being exported through all the years. And number two, different from Brazil, in Mexico, you were able to issue invoices in U.S. dollars. So, those two factors allowed us on an accounting perspective to adopt the hedge accounting. And you are going to see the effect of these in the income of Braskem-Idesa from 2016 until 2029, okay?

Okay, perfect. Thank you.

Mr. Alejandro [indiscernible] from GBM would like to make a question.

Yes, hello. First of all, congratulations with your reports. Would you have any comment regarding bribery allegations between PetroBras and Braskem?

Alejandro thanks for your question. Just to recap the whole issue, we heard from the press that allegations that Braskem in 2009 would have paid, made a corporate payment, to have an advantage on its naphtha contracts, right. We – right after hearing that and learning that we started an internal investigation an independent one is being conducted by a law firm from the U.S. and local law firm in Brazil. They have access to everything inside Braskem and they have more been working so far inside Braskem looking for eventual evidence to establish whether that has happened or not. They are independent and therefore they have the own timeline. We have been giving them all the information they need on that. We keep on reporting on the progress of what they are doing to the authorities, both the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. We, as I said, we have – following what they are doing, we are learning with them what they are doing. Not a relevant amount so far, so we do hope that at certain point in the future, we have the conclusion of investigation. And actually, I hope we at a certain point in the future, they are going to be able to establish that nothing happened. But at this point, positively we support their work. So, I guess that’s from a technical perspective, from a legal perspective, from an objective perspective. That is all I can mention. There is also risk to mention above that. In the meantime, Petrobras has spoke about this issue as well. At an interview with the Petrobras’ current CEO has mentioned that he didn’t – they didn’t find inside Petrobras any evidence of loss. Petrobras, any number or evidence that Petrobras had lost money on this contract, that’s one of the things he has mentioned. So, Petrobras has been doing. And as we do that, as we have this internal investigation being conducted independently, what we try to do is to keep working, keeping the teams focused on running the plants, having the chemical products and make them producing the results we have. And again, I can only hope that it happens soon so we can turn this page and move on. So, that’s where we are right now.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, too.

I will turn over to the company for closing remarks.

Well, I would like to thank you all for participating in the call. I would like to thank you all and have to congratulate a dozen on behalf of Braskem. Everybody at Braskem, I would say that we are very happy with the results. We do understand and we know exactly that part of that is coming from external factors, international spread and exchange rate. But we also know that a part of that is coming from the long and hard work we’ve been doing over the years to increase production at the plants, to reduce costs, to reduce maintenance costs, to increase market share, to protect mainly the Brazilian domestic market from unfair trade taxes and to keep growing the company as we do that with the Mexican project and with several other initiatives. So, thank you all for participating in the call. We are going to remain very focused here. The last two months we have of the year to fully finish 2015 with another very good quarter for Braskem. Thank you again and I wish you all have a good weekend. Bye-bye.

Thank you. This concludes today’s Braskem’s earnings conference call. You may disconnect your lines at this time.