Thomas S. Rooney Jr.
Management
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Energy Recovery’s Fourth Quarter 2012 Conference Call. My name is Tom Rooney, and I’m here today with our Chief Financial Officer, Alex Buehler. The primary purpose of today’s call is to provide you with information about our financial performance in the fourth quarter of 2012. However, some of our comments and responses to questions may contain forward-looking statements about market trends, future revenue, growth expectations, cost structure, gross profit margins, new products and business strategy. Such statements are predictions based on current expectations about future events and are subject to the Safe Harbor provisions of U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially. A detailed discussion of these factors and uncertainties is contained in the reports of the company files with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made during this call, except as required by law. By having said that, good morning everyone. Now that we have formally announced our fourth quarter and year end results, I’m proud to say that we met or surpassed virtually every goal that our team set out for ourselves at the beginning of the year. In doing so, we strengthened the company and positioned ourselves for a very bright future. Looking at the results, it’s clear to see that in almost every financial metric, we saw a significant improvement, quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. After three straight years of steep revenue declines, it was great to see our annual revenues jump by 52% in 2012, including a 147% jump in the fourth quarter alone. This dramatic revenue turnaround is attributable to very significant market share gains combined…