Good morning, and welcome to Carpenter Technology's fourth quarter earnings conference call. My name is Duluth and I will be your coordinator for today. At this time, all participants will be in listen-only mode. After the speakers' remarks, you will be invited to participate in a question-and-answer session towards the end of this presentation. I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today, Mr. Mike Hajost, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer. Please proceed, sir.

Thank you, Duluth. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Carpenter's earnings conference call for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2013. This call is also being broadcast over the Internet along with presentation slides. Please note, for those of you listening by phone you may experience a time delay in slide movement. Speakers on call today are Bill Wulfsohn, President and Chief Executive Officer; Tony Thene, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Andy Ziolkowski, Senior Vice President Commercial for Specialty Alloys Operations. Also in the room are Dave Strobel, Senior Vice President of Global Operations; Gary Heasley, Senior Vice President Performance Engineer Products, as well as other members of the management team. Statements made by the management during this earnings presentation that are forward-looking statements are based on current expectations. Risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements can be found in Carpenter's most recent SEC Filings including the Company's June 30, 2012 10-K, September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2012 and March 31st 2013 10-Qs and the exhibits attached to those filings. I will now turn the call over to Bill.

Good morning, everyone and thank you for calling in. I am happy to report that Carpenter had a strong Q4 and a solid fiscal year '13. For those of you who follow us closely you know we have a focused strategy and aligned of capable team and we execute with discipline. More specifically we focus on the top 1% of the specialty steel market. This is the area with the greatest opportunities for differentiation and the highest barriers to entry. You can see the impact of the strategy in our result. Operating margins were roughly 15% for the year and in the quarter. In our specialty alloy operations or SAO margin per pound increased again in fiscal year '13 as we sold a better mix of product. To enhance our position in our 1% target market this year we took multiple strategic actions. We continued our strong investment in developing and commercializing new differential materials, we also increased our titanium wire capacity to better serve the growing demand for titanium fasteners. We built a new Amega West facility in San Antonio, Texas. We began construction of our new manufacturing facility in China and as we will talk about later in more detail, we're now more than half way through the construction of our Athens facility. In terms of execution we delivered some great results. Operationally, we had a great team effort to integrate Latrobe. In summary we achieved above deal economics driven by twice the originally targeted synergies. In addition, we expanded our lean six sigma training. These tools enabled the SAO team to fully offset inflation on a variable cost per ton basis for the fourth year in a raw. We also completed multiple new long term agreements with important customers such as Rolls Royce. And finally in Q4…

Let's start on slide seven with a financial overview of the quarter and then we can get into some of the details. Net income was 40.9 million or $0.77 per share. Net sales excluding surcharge was 497 million, a 5% sequential increase. Importantly two of our key end use markets, aerospace and energy accounts for over 60% of the total. Operating margins improved sequentially by 190 basis points, driven primarily by manufacturing efficiencies and increased volumes. From a cash standpoint, we had a strong quarter. Cash flows provided from operations was 184 million and free cash flow was 61 million. Capital expenditures for the quarter were 113 million. And lastly, our total liquidity stands at 750 million, with 258 million of cash on hand. Moving to slide eight in the income statement summary. Revenue in the quarter was 612 million or 497 million excluding surcharge. SG&A was 55 million in the quarter. This is a 7 million sequential increase, driven primarily by the restructuring activities and variable compensation adjustments. SG&A for the total year was 201 million versus 169 million last year. If you adjust for the Latrobe acquisition, SG&A was up 9 million year-over-year. This was driven primarily by the restructuring activities in this quarter and an increase in the net pension expense. Operating income, excluding pension EID was an impressive 73.4 million in the quarter, a 20% sequential increase driven by improved yields, better scrap management and increased volumes. As a result, our margins improved to 14.8% versus 12.9% in the previous quarter. The effective tax rate for the quarter was 30.7 million. Now let’s take a few seconds to talk about this, if you remember, last quarter, we made 75 million discretionary pension contributions and our intention was that we would make an additional 90 million in…

Thank you, Tony. Turning to page 12. You can see we experienced mix results in our core market segments. Aerospace demand continues to grow sequentially and year-over-year. We expect that trend to continue as the airline monitor projects the combined build rates of Boeing and Airbus will go from 1,260 in 2013 and 1,355 in 2014, that’s an 8% increase. While the rig count and OEM production of industrial gas turbines were both down this year, our sales have grown rapidly. This is largely the result of share gain. As for the rest of our markets, we’ve seen declining demand year-over-year. We believe this trend is largely due to customer destocking. It’s our belief that destocking has occurred due to our improved on-time performance, low scrap prices and our reduced lead time. The good news is that orders have picked up substantially and we have seen a dramatic reduction in deferrals versus what we experienced in Q3. That said we are still waiting for an expected surge which we believe will be needed soon through perishable customer inventories. It is difficult to clearly determine the exact timing of this demand expansion as our lead times have shorten dramatically, giving us less forward visibility, and close to 50% of our sales are from stock. Since these items are held for quick delivery, they have no specified delivery day that means shipments can go up or down with little notice. Moving to slide 14, I will turn the discussion over to Andy who will speak to the Latrobe and SAO results.

Good morning. I will begin on slide 14 on Latrobe segment. This will be the last time you will see the Latrobe segment broken out separately. You may call, the Latrobe segment includes both results of Latrobe manufacturing and the distribution company. Discussions for fiscal ’14 will include the manufacturing operations in SAO and the distribution operations in PEP. We will recast each segment for you with these changes so that you can adjust your models going forward. We expect to release the restatement prior to releasing our Q1 results. For the guidance for FY14 will be embedded in the SAO and PEP segments. In quarter four, the manufacturing benefited from continued operating effectiveness and the positive effects of our integration activities. in addition we had some initial successes with improving our mix which is an area of opportunity for us moving forward. Moving on to SAO in slide 15, as Bill mentioned earlier, compared to year ago Q4 saw continued growth in Aerospace particularly in engines and structural applications and oil and gas. The quarter benefited from solid operating performance driven mainly by increased activity levels and our continued focus of reducing our operating cost and while the market continued to be volatile, we experience less deferral and cancelation activity than we did in Q3 and our enquiry levels and incoming order activities are improving. Moving forward, while the longer term perspective in many of our core market is quite positive, particularly for Aerospace, the near term we believe the markets will remain challenging and expect supply chain adjustments to continue. We expect our Q1 to exhibit a normal, seasonal volume decline from a sequential perspective. In addition we will also be having a major preventative maintenance outage for our forging operations. I will now turn it over to Bill Wulfsohn to cover the PEP segment.

Thank you, Andy. I’d like to note that Andy did a great job with Latrobe integration and is off to a strong start in his new role leading the combined Latrobe and SAO commercial teams. Turning to page 17, I will now discuss our Performance Engineered Product segment or PEP business as we refer to it. As I mentioned earlier, Gary Heasley joined the Carpenter team last week. We strongly believe that his expansive operating experience will help us as we seek to improve the PEPs operating performance, which is good because we have lots of room for improvement in PEP. Since this is only Gary's second week on the job, I will speak to our PEP results. Sales were sequentially up due largely to strong demand for Aerospace (inaudible) but they were off versus Q4 or fiscal year ’12 as a result of weakness in the tools steel distribution and titanium medical market. We believe this weakness is largely driven by customer inventory destocking and as such we expect to see a solid demand recovery in these markets during fiscal year ’14. From an earnings perspective our margins were down to 4%. These results include the impact of aggressive actions we took to improve our tool steel powder business and start-up related expense associated with our new Amega West San Antonio facility. This facility is important to our oil and gas strategy as it will enable us to attack and support the rapidly growth Eagle Ford Oil Shale region. Looking forward, we have a strong focus on improving the operating results within our PEP business with Gary’s leadership and having completed the previously referenced actions we expect significantly better performance in this segment this fiscal year. Moving to page 18, I’m very pleased to report that both our Forge…

(Operator Instructions) Please stand back for your first question which is from the line of Julie Yates Stewart from Credit Suisse. Please go ahead Ma’am.

As you noted there is initial success improving the mix, let us say, can you elaborate on this, and update us on where the mix ended for FY13 in ultra-premium and premium as a percentage of total sales. I think it was 35% and 51% at the end of FY12 based on your investor day materials.

This is Andy, let me go back into the comments. When I made those comments I was referring to the drill, and we were talking about the synergies and we had about a 6% increase in the margins as we drill through the fiscal year, and over our expectations. That’s what the comment referred to. Could you restate the second part of your question then?

Sure, I was looking for an update as a percentage of total sales where you ended the year with ultra-premium and premium?

We typically don’t break that out and we break it out of course by segment, we did share that during the investor conference and I think in the future we can provide better clarity around that because as we look it at internally, while we strategically drive our business by investing in those quarters we actually track the sales by the business unit Forge Bar & Billet which as we mentioned is primarily the premium and ultra-premium products where we had record sales tons as well as record profitability per ton, and we also look at it of course by market segment, so we'll have to get back to you with a specific number on that one.

And then Tony just one quick one for you, given the move in interest rate and improved funding status can you just update us on how we should be thinking about pension expense for FY14?

For FY14 Julie you should use approximately 60 million.

And the next question is from the line of Steve Levenson of Stifel, please go ahead, sir.

Just a question what you think the trends are out there in the rest of the world, do you think with customer destocking, that inventory levels will ever return to where they were or will new equipment like what you're putting in Athens keep lead times low and inventories low for a while.

I think inevitably that you will see that customers will feel the need to rebuild a portion of their inventory, we will maintain short lead times and we are working to actually improve those lead times and shorten them further, but in the end not only do our customers have lean inventories but downstream their customers and even further downstream their customers also have lean inventories. So when that chain begins to pull I think that will cause a vibration that will ripple back through and I think that really throughout the supply chain it’s likely that inventories will come back up, maybe not to the levels where they were two-three years ago but above the levels where they are today.

And do you think low commodity prices are related more to oversupply or more related to low demand from the destocking that's been going on?

Well, when you look at the underlying raw materials, I mean for the most part those are true commodities and so I think that that is probably representative of the macroeconomic condition versus the capacity that suppliers of these materials have put online over the course of the last few years. But I don't think that it's indicative of the health of our particular segments as really we consume only a relatively small portion of those underlying raw material commodities so I think they're somewhat disconnected.

And last question is about powder metals, I guess most of your powders right now are in steel alloys can you tell us what you see for powders in the future, and if 3D printing, additive manufacturing will be a factor for Carpenter.

3d printing and additive manufacturing will definitely be part, it is today part of our mix and as that marketplace grows we expect to be a significant part of it, tool steels are if you will the foundation that the business was built upon, as you can imagine especially in this part of the economic cycle that had a more of a commodity dynamic to it and that's been the area that we've taken the most aggressive action to actually lean out our cost structure and make sure that we can be profitable and competitive, but it’s also important to note that we have vacuum melted materials which are more premium in nature and as such get a higher margin as there's higher value associated with it, and that is an area that we're also focusing on growing the business.

Thank you. The next question is from Gautam Khanna of Cowen and Company, please proceed.

Bill, I was hoping you could elaborate on how you guys sort of bucked the trend when we look at what Rolls Royce said last week with respect to the destocking initiative they've recently embarked on, we saw PCP make the same points and we saw ATI kind of cite similar dynamics and yet sales in every end market seemed up sequentially for you guys. The order dynamics are better and it doesn't, sounds like you're culling out kind of intensified destocking in the first half of the fiscal year, how do we square all that?

Well first of all I think you have to look when you reference a couple of those customers, they're further upstream if you will from us so they're going to see the dynamic in a different way than we do. Secondly I can speak more specifically to our company as opposed to some of the others that you referenced and I can tell you that we have an intensive focus on making sure that of course we have the best quality, the best service, the best delivery, the best relationships in the industry and with that I can tell you that our commercial teams have been very aggressive in going out and seeking to if you will build the business space. If you recall a couple of years back, we, because of our capacity constraint actually had to mix manage some business out of our overall sales portfolio, but as you also recall we did that and we culled this out in a graceful way, in other words we didn’t run the relationships we had with our customers and so that’s given us the opportunity to go back to some of those customers and to help if you will feel the bucket back up even though there is the issues of destocking that you’re referencing and areas in, and for example on Aerospace we don’t see Aerospace as been a very strong quarter for us in Q1 based upon the order patterns. We’re going to see and feel some of that in Q1 and potentially in Q2 although we think by then we’re more like let’s see a recovery.

I guess just to clarify, Bill, what I’m trying to get at is, is this something that could become an incremental issue, meaning you’ve had this sort of idiosyncratic period where you’ve had to deal with deferrals and like and those are starting to kind recouple with underlying trends, but now we’re hearing kind of some of the downstream customers PCP, Rolls-Royce, that they are embarking on destocking from here so I’ve just been wondering have you moderated your expectations in the first half even relative to where we were three months with respect to the pace of that recovery, recognizing there is always seasonal weakness and that’s going to look worse. I just don't want to be surprised again, is there any chance of that as we move forward?

It’s a great question and I tried to call that out in earlier comments that we do see a weaker Q1 and I think you have seen that we’ve seen some peaks and valleys from demand and mix standpoint over the course of the last few quarters. We’re aggressively working with our customers in our portfolio. I will tell you that to the extent that some of our customers are reducing their inventories, we see that in our order pattern because if they’re taking those actions then typically three months or so before that we would see that profile in our order intake, so I think hopefully the comments I made earlier were clear, we see that as a clear risk in Q1 and it could continue but I can also tell you that we prepared an annual plan this spring and that plan had of course growth in both in terms of sales and profitability and that is our full expectation and plan as we sit here today.

Okay and then I just want to make sure I understood your comment on the distribution business, in Q1 you’re going to actually discontinue it but you’re not planning to sell it to now, we’re just waiting to improve the operation before you sell it or…

No, actually, and I’m really glad you’ve asked that question if I communicated in that manner that’s not what I intended, actually, it's just the opposite. a year ago at this time we looked at the business and we said that really it might be an opportunity to move this business in somebody’s hands on for the right price and they continue to grow we couldn’t and that’s that money in others areas as you’ve know we’ve actually improved our liquidity over the last year. This hasn’t been the best environment to be out selling a distribution business and frankly we’ve realized that the sales and earnings are beneficial to us. In addition, I mentioned before that there is roughly 3000 tons of material that they sell today that are sourced from other companies that we can bring in-house to help base load our Athens operations. So when you put that all together we’re saying that at this point we want to make it clear that we do not plan to sell the business at this time. In the future what might happen down the road at this time we have no other plans, but as you know there were pits in our portfolio it’s an important part but it’s also at the lower end and so we’re going to work it hard and improve the business and expect it’d be an important contribution part and we’ll see where it takes us down the road.

The next question is from the line of Josh Sullivan of Sterne Agee. Please proceed sir.

Good morning Bill and Tony. Great quarter here, the operating strategy you guys have been pursuing really showing through but going forward just given the low visibility environment, I mean, is there significant runway on the restructuring, de-model necking, synergies in which we're look’14 understanding in the first quarter here you’re doing some various things?

Well first of all we talk a lot about our commercial team, they’ve done a great job in terms of the right position in the marketplace but I have to say Dave Strobel is here at the table, our Senior Vice President of Operations, he and his teams have done a great job to really improve the operational execution within our operations and that’s in the area of safety, that’s in the area of quality but also clearly that in the area of cost and Dave and his team, they look very closely with the commercial team and they line up our cost activities, our production level activities with the commercial demand and I think the teams worked very well together, they’re very nimble and we’re expecting them to continue to drive productivity improvements year-over-year just as they have for the four years and that’s irrespective of whether or not we see a significant growth and demand whether it’d be in the quarter or for the year.

And I mean free cash flows are also pretty good in the quarter, how do you see that going forward especially after beyond the initial investment in Athens and that’s up and running?

So, couple of points that I think are really essential to make here, one is that we are now over halfway through the capital expenditure for Athens; however, we have the largest of our payments here that will take place in the first quarter of our fiscal year. In fact just today our radio forge backs is being delivered in Athens. And so as you know first quarter is typically not a good cash flow quarter for us, in fact in the last few years it's been negative. We expect that this will be a substantially negative cash flow quarter for the company and from there you will clearly see quick and rapid improvement in our cash flow profile. And we are targeting to be positive by the second half of this year and strongly positive in fiscal year '15, because as you know, think about it we have been able to manage our cash flow while ultimately investing roughly $500 million in our Athens operations. So this quarter is going to get tough on the cash side, we want to make sure that that's clear to everybody, but it's going to get a lot better from there, because if you will the bulk of it will be in the rearview mirror.

And then just on Boeing partnering for success programs I was getting a lot of attention with the supplier base, given you guys have this capacity coming on at Athens and that freezes up. Can you talk about if Boeing is reaching down to the material level and then if Airbus is having any discussions as well.

Well one of the things that we have done as an organization is go out and visit with some 70 customers that are either primary consumers or downstream consumers. And the reaction that we have gotten to the addition of capacity that we're putting in has been very positive, I think just even as recently a year or 1.5 years ago you saw that capacity was a real problem or issue in this area. And so I think there is both a strategic interest and supply. But also because of the capabilities from a quality, from delivery time standpoint we have seen really great interest from the OEMs and from our core media customers. In terms of the specific Boeing and Airbus action, we actually see those coming at us in two ways. One, we do have direct discussions with those customers, and secondly we supply companies that supply a broader package range to those companies, and they have also come and talked to us and work with us, with the concept of delivering. But I am also going to go back to the point I made before, even though we have this capacity coming on, we're not interested in going out and cutting kind of crazy deals if you will line up those capacities or those sales. We believe we have got a great value proposition, and we're going to stand behind it.

And then just one last one, looking at the growth environment and you talked about 50% of stocking or health for stock. Can you give us any granularity between the distribution versus OEM, are the distributors hand to mouth right now, year-over-year versus the OEM side.

Josh this is Andy Z, I will handle that one. Yeah, as we talked in Q3 we see consistent behavior in Q4 and I would say that destocking has particularly manifested itself from the distribution community. We believe we have limited exposure to those different supply chains, but certainly more pronounced in the perspective.

It is an interesting dynamic because, as our delivered performance has gotten better and our lead times have gotten shorter, that has made it easier for some of the OEM's if you will to just buy from stock as opposed to from quick delivery distributors and we certainly want our distributors or the distributors who work with us to be successful and we know that as the cycle moves forward, certainly they will see more demand just because of that dynamic.

The next question is from the line of Sal Tharani of Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Gary. And hope to hear from you next time on the B sector segment. On the working capital there was a quiet a bit of positive generation this quarter. I am wondering if the first quarter being a slower quarter we should expect the similar pattern.

When we look at working capital, let me begin with inventory. I think with the work we did last year we have a much greater ability to predict and manage the amount of inventory that we have in our system. Now some of the determination in terms of how much inventory we'll have coming out of this quarter, will be based upon the order pattern that we see over the course of the next four to six weeks. If we begin to see the steam start building then we're going to begin positioning inventory, so we can make sure that we're responsive to growing customer demand. In terms of the other areas of our working capital, actually this has become an increasing area of focus for us, as you can imagine just trying to improve our cash flow as we go through this investment cycle. And so we're putting some extra focus if you will, on accounts payable, and we have some actions we've outlined in that area which we think will have some nice impact in the first two quarters of this year.

And Bill you mentioned about this 10-10 rule. Can you elaborate what are your timelines for reaching that goal?

I would like to tell Andy that its next week, but he tells me that it's not going to happen next week that is going to take a little longer. And the reality is that that will be somewhat the reflection of how quickly some of our core markets ultimately recover if you will from a demand standpoint. What’s really important though in that statement and I mean I think everybody knows you’re bringing on some additional capacity, we’ve got some excess capacity in our system and parts of our systems anyway today we want to sell more, everybody wants to sell more. But I think it’s a second time that I ask that you focus on because that’s the discipline that we’re bringing to our organization. Any volume is not good volume, any price is not a good sale. we’re focusing on making sure that we maintain our margin, enhance them through productivity and mix and ultimately we know that we’re going to go into some new market segments that will be more in the premium area whether it be marine or chemicals and others like that and they may have just a little bit different profile than the aerospace or energy. But we’re focused on targeting those that what we believe are strong margin positions and the core message to you and the core message to our organization is we’re not chasing volume with price.

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Phil Gibbs from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed.

Bill, what were the real big drivers sequentially to the profitability at both Redding and Latrobe?

Well, clearly when we get volume through our system there is a lot of volume leverage that turns itself into earnings and that’s not just because of the variable margin associated with contribution of our product but frankly it helps us with our absorption and reflect that earlier in the year when we slowed down some of our production, we also talked about that. So, I think we’re very consistent and as we’ve seen greater hope put up the door, we’ve been able to proves more with help loading our inventories and I see that I think that you see that reflected in not only the contribution but in the cost per ton which the manufacturing team had an outstand in Q4 as it relates to actual cost per ton on variable cost basis, really outstanding. So, that was a core contributor to that performance.

Can you give us a sense of the manufacturing utilizations at Ridding in Latrobe to another prior quarter?

Sure. Well, first of all as I mentioned our Forge right now is running 24x7 and we’re constrained in that area. So, we’re glad we’re doing our outage, it’s important, I think you know that we take lot of pride in maintain our equipment and that’s part of our dependability equation but that’s in a constrained area. In our press and (inaudible) areas we’re in the mid the high 90s and frankly going back to the press, we’ve been running the press 24x7 almost 365 a year for a long time here now and so it will be nice to have a little bit a relief on that because as you know the head space has been pretty tight.

Great. I just had a couple of housekeeping items for Tony if I could. Tony, where did the restructuring, the 3 million come through the segment level.

It’s in corporate.

And also as far as ’14 capital expenditures, can you give us a feel what you’re looking for there.

Well, we say we’re going to be probably be in the low 300 somewhere between 300 and 350.

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Mark Parr from KeyBanc. Please go ahead.

Phil was asking the questions about operations I just want to say congratulations to Gary and was wondering Gary, if you have any thoughts about, there are a lot of different pieces in the organization that you’ve been in charge with taking care of, anything that’s higher or lower on the priority list, things we’re going here earlier rather than later.

Mark, I’ve been able to dig into some of the units a little deeper than others but it seems to me that we’ll be talking a lot about both near term improvement opportunities, things could be done, that can affect outcomes in ’14 and also will be keeping a pretty steady eye on longer term developments products, customer relationships, things that we could do that will be more accretive toward the end of the ’14 or end of ’15 and so we’re going to take kind of I think two pronged attack there and it seems to me having met with some of the teams that there are lot of opportunities out there for these units. So, it’s pretty exciting.

And just to helpful over because it is true that Gary just joined us last week and so he’s had a whole week and has only been able to meet with some of his new team. I can maybe make a couple of comments which I hope are relevant, one is that we’re really excited about our position in oil and gas SSS and Amega and the opportunities there, I mentioned the footprint expansion that we have and conversely, we’ve gone through a bit of a tough time in part of our business and it’s really important that we take the actions that we made in Q4 and we drive that into higher profitability and a much better growth profile. So those are two areas that I would call out and I’m just guessing Gary will come to that same conclusion after he has a chance to dig in some more.

On the powder side do you think there may be a higher potential for M&A there as opposed to some of the other areas in PEP?

Well actually I would say that there is probably higher potential for acquisitions in some of the other areas where we can really do precision finishing type activities like Amega West, and so that would be the type of thing potentially something in Aerospace but something that doesn’t compete with our large forging customers. In the powder area, we’re looking at some very specific business development opportunities which may not be huge in size but would be related to positioning ourselves for long term growth that maybe associated with additive manufacturing, so that would be the area that we would probably focus on as it relates to the powder business.

That concludes the question and answer portion of today’s call. Let me now turn it over to Mr. Mike Hajost for closing remark. Please go ahead sir.

Thank you again for participating on today’s call. We look forward to speaking with you again next quarter. Thank you and good bye.

Thank you for your participation in today’s conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Have a great day.