Marco Levi
Management
Thank you, Beatriz and good morning or good afternoon to everyone. 2020 was a defining year for Ferroglobe and an extraordinary one in many ways. On the one end, the world fighting for the challenges resulting from the global pandemic. This required our relatively new Senior Management team to make drastic decisions and change internal processes to support swift decision making. It changed the way we operated our assets. And it forced us to expand and accelerate our efforts on the cost cutting side. On the other end, we have the clear and critical initiative, which was to design a strategy for turning around the company and to push forward with this agenda while navigating an unprecedented operating environment. In many ways, the challenges we were encountering, particularly during the early days of the pandemic highlighted gaps in our business and the opportunities to align the team to drive change. All in all, our financial performance was not what we would have liked to deliver. But we do view 2020 as a success in many areas. We make changes in management at various levels, and started redesigning parts of the organization to drive results and emphasize accountability. Despite the 30% decline in sales versus 2019, we returned to positive adjusted EBITDA in 2020. This is a testament of our ability to operate this business and reinforces the potential of the asset base. Furthermore, we continued operating the business while managing our cash. This has been a focus area for the company. And we've made significant strides to operate without any disruptions during a turbulent period. We successfully refinanced our per year account or assumable securitization program, which are at least some previously trapped cash, but also lowered our financing costs. And lastly, we now have a robust multi-year strategy and…