Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the third quarter 2009 PPG Industries earnings conference call. My name is Keesha and I will be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session towards the end of this conference. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Vince Morales, Vice President Investor Relations.

Hello. This is Vince Morales, Vice President Investor Relations for PPG Industries. Welcome to PPG's third quarter 2009 financial teleconference. Joining me on the call today from PPG is Chuck Bunch, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Bill Hernandez, Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Bob Dellinger, Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer Designate and Dave Navikas, Vice President and Controller. Our comments relate to the financial information released on Thursday, October 15, 2009. Visuals supporting this briefing may be accessed through the Investor Center of the PPG Web site at www.ppg.com. As shown on Slide number 2, our prepared remarks and comments made in subsequent question-and-answer sessions may contain forward-looking statements reflecting the company's current view about future events and their potential affect on PPG's operating and financial performance. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could affect the company's operations and financial results and, as discussed in PPG Industries’ filings with the SEC, may cause actual results to differ from such forward-looking statements. The company is under no obligation to provide subsequent updates on these forward-looking statements. This presentation also contains certain non-GAAP financial measures. Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation G, the company has provided in the Appendix of the presentation materials reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures. The agenda for today's discussion is noted on Slide number 3. Our third quarter recap is on Slide number 4. And now to discuss that, let me introduce PPG's Chairman and CEO, Chuck Bunch.

Thank you, Vince, and welcome, everyone. This morning I will provide a brief overview of PPG's performance in the third quarter. Vince will then review some of the financial details and then I will make some closing remarks. At that time Bill Hernandez, Bob Dellinger, Dave Navikas, Vince, and I will be happy to answer questions. Overall I am pleased with the progress we are making in our efforts to return to the level of profitability experienced in 2007 and early 2008. PPG's solid performance in the third quarter reflects the positive changes we made to our business portfolio over the past several years. Combined, our coatings in optical and specialty materials segments delivered 7% higher year-over-year earnings and collectively accounted for over 95% of our segment earnings. We achieved these results despite a sales decline of about 15% for these businesses and in comparison with what were record levels in the prior year. We benefited greatly from our aggressive cost reduction actions as well as a modest improvement in demand stemming from a very gradual recovery in the global economy. In the quarter, overall business conditions remained challenging in comparison with prior years. But, again, general demand levels in many end use markets we serve increased moderately versus the second quarter. This improvement was consistent throughout the quarter and was evidenced in all of our major regions including Asia where China was the main contributor to what were very strong results. Also, we benefited from an upturn in auto production especially in North America. This aided our industrial coding segment which includes our automotive OEM coatings business and our Silicas business unit, which is part of the Optical and Specialty Materials segment. Our Performance Coating segment grew earnings and margins year-over-year and continues to demonstrate its resilience. Architectural coatings,…

Thanks, Chuck. I will start by reviewing our sales results which are detailed on Slide 5. Overall sales for the company were down $1 billion versus the third quarter of last year with nearly one quarter of that decline, or approximately $230 million, stemming from our late 2008 divestiture of the majority interest in the Automotive Glass and Services business. Also contributing to the sales decline were lower selling prices of about $150 million. The key factor in this regard was lower caustic pricing and commodity chemicals. Currency represented an equal-sized headwind. Weaker year-over-year demand resulted in about $500 million and lower sales volume equating to a 12% volume decline. We experienced our largest percentage decline in our glass segment where volume declines exceeded 25%. Our best volume performance was in our Architectural Coatings, EMEA, segment where volume results have improved each quarter this year as we experienced only a slight decline of low to mid-single digit percent this quarter. Also, our Industrial Coating segment volumes, while down year-over-year, improved markedly in comparison with early quarters this year with the largest improvement in automotive OEM coatings. And detailed further on the next slide, our year-over-year volume results, while still negative, have improved gradually each quarter this year in reflection of slightly better demand. Also as illustrated, 2008 results did not deteriorate notably until the fourth quarter. So comparisons for this year's third quarter were against record third quarter sales levels for the company. In terms of our regions, Asia Pacific was clearly our best performing region this quarter, delivering higher volumes versus last year driven by strong growth in China. Our US region along with our European region experienced low teen percentage volume decreases. This was a solid improvement compared to earlier this year. Also, as Chuck mentioned, negative currency…

Thanks, Vince. Let me summarize what I believe was a solid quarter by recapping a few key items. In most markets, demand levels improved modestly in comparison with the past several quarters. We were able to fully capitalize on this higher demand and our earnings benefited from our lower cost structure. Our coatings and Optical and Specialty Materials segments demonstrated their resilience and provided insight into why we have been growing our presence in these businesses. Also, our efforts to expand our global footprint the past several years prove beneficial as we were able to grow nicely in Asia this quarter and, as we expected, Commodity Chemicals pricing fell during the quarter but moved up in September. In the fourth quarter, excluding the impacts of a normal seasonal drop, we expect overall market conditions to once again improve for most of our businesses, but only modestly. We expect our growth to continue in Asia and anticipate global automotive production will remain at least at third quarter levels, if not higher. Currency conversion is likely to shift to a tailwind based on what today is a weaker US dollar. We will continue to execute on our restructuring and other cost reduction actions and the related earnings benefit will grow again next quarter. Regarding our strong cash position, we will keep debt reduction as one of our top priorities but expect to gradually return to a more balanced use of cash in the coming quarters. Let me conclude by saying that overall it was a solid quarter as we continue to return to our prior levels of profitability, including excellent performance in coatings and Optical and Specialty Materials. Our ability to profitably leverage the modest volume improvement we saw versus the last few quarters was apparent. Equally important is that our execution was and remains a critical factor as we delivered additional cost savings and focused on working capital reductions. Before we take questions I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Bob Dellinger to our management team at PPG. Bob, welcome, and we're looking forward to working with you. And I would be remiss if I didn't publicly thank Bill Hernandez, our Senior Vice President and CFO for his many years of service and many contributions to the company. Bill, I wish you a very happy retirement, and thank you for everything you've done for PPG. Now, Operator, would you please give instructions and open the phone lines for questions?

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Sergey Vasnetsov - Barclays Capital.

I think your results have shown what strong incremental margins you could bring once the [inaudible] comes back and it sounds from commentaries the fourth quarter could be a combination of seasonal weakness and some incremental recovery. Would you think that those factors would roughly offset each other?

Yes, I think, Sergey, what you're seeing from us is that we're going to have seasonal weakness in many of the construction related businesses. These would be our Architectural Coatings businesses in Europe or in North America and also some seasonal weakness in our chlor-alkali business. But we feel that with the cost reduction actions that we've taken and the momentum we have in some of the industrial businesses where you see in markets like North America or China in particular where auto builds are continuing to increase, I think we are going to have somewhat of an offset to the seasonal weakness that we traditionally experience in the fourth quarter.

And so on the acquisition front given as you get more comfortable on your overall debt structure, as you think about the [inaudible] would you expect minor opportunities or reasonable size opportunities for you?

We are beginning to look now, Sergey. Obviously this year we've been focused on our restructuring actions and making sure the company was well positioned. We're very pleased with our cash generation capabilities here over the last couple of quarters. We have a good cash balance now. And we will begin to look for acquisition opportunities in coatings in particular and we hope that, you know, in the coming quarters that, you know, some of these may develop into legitimate opportunities for us.

Your next question comes from Frank Mitsch - BB&T Capital Markets. Frank Mitsch - BB&T Capital Markets: On Slide, Page 16, you showed the trend on the chlor-alkali side having bottomed in the July/August timeframe and moving up in the September timeframe. We're halfway done with October. Would you anticipate that that trend coming off the bottom is where you would see the ECU such that the fourth quarter average ECU might be above the third quarter average ECU?

We think the ECU will be modestly improved in the fourth quarter. The one factor we’ll have in this business unit is the seasonal volume weakness that we traditionally get typically towards the end of the fourth quarter, but we do have some positives that are working for the industry in general because of the weaker dollar, the strength in the Asian markets where I think we’re going to see less exports out of Asia, more use of their domestic chlor-alkali capacity in the region, so I think that it will set the stage for improvement as we go through the fourth quarter and into 2010, but we still expect some seasonal trends here, especially on the volume side. Frank Mitsch - BB&T Capital Markets: All right, so the volume’s coming off of pricing moving up. And Chuck, staying with Asia, obviously you talked about the volumes being positive in that part of the world. What percent of sales was Asia in total for the third quarter, and can you give us some indication at least of the current trends in China post the national holidays that the had there.

The percent of sales now for our businesses in Asia is over 15%, it’s around 18%, so a very positive trend here and we had some strength here at the end of the third quarter, especially in China, because of the national holiday at the beginning of October, but we have been monitoring volumes as the plants came back to work in the second week of October, and activity levels are very good, so we’re picking up here after the national holiday celebration at similar levels, very positive indicator for us.

As a reminder, please limit questions to two. Your next question comes from Robert Koort - Goldman Sachs.

Good morning. This is Amy [inaudible] for Bob. I have two [audio impaired]

Your next question comes from David Begleiter - Deutsche Bank.

Chuck, can you comment on what you’re seeing in raw materials, whether you’re taking any higher Ti02 prices, are you seeing any oil based raw materials?

I would say that there are trends probably in both areas, Ti02, there are discussions going on with the Ti02 producers now. They are attempting to get price increases, and the discussions are ongoing. I would say that certainly the trend is not down and we will see in the coming quarters if there is price increases on the Ti02 side but certainly the suppliers are attempting to pass those costs in a modest way to their customers. On the oil based side, we have obviously some strength in oil prices combined with weakness in the dollar. I would say that right now we are experiencing conversations let’s call it where suppliers are trying to pass some of these costs on. You have a countervailing trend though with the weakness in natural gas prices here and a lot of the raw materials for our coatings businesses are based on natural gas or ethylene and those trends are favorable so we have a mix there and I would say that if there is any price tendency, it is modestly higher but I would say at this point, very muted.

And Chuck, w hat’s your ability to pass through any high raw materials to your selling prices?

We’ve seen in prior years and prior quarters that we have some ability to pass along higher raw material prices, but usually with a lag effect of one or two or more quarters, so right now I would say we’re monitoring and in discussions with both suppliers and customers, making sure that the trends that we see don’t accelerate, but typically the industry in many of our end use markets has been able to pass on costs, but usually with a lag effect.

Your next question comes from Amy in place of Bob Koort from Goldman Sachs.

Thank you. I have two questions. The first one is regarding glass and I’m wondering how shall we expect an operating profit of this segment to progress in the fourth quarter and also heading to 2010. It looks like the commercial construction market may show further erosion. On the other hand, you guys may have more aggressive cost cutting efforts there.

Well, we continue to work hard in this business segment. We are disappointed that we continue to report an operating loss here. We have some trends that are moving against each other. We have some positive trends, especially in our fiberglass business where the electronics market in Asia in particular is strengthening. Also in the composite side of the business which supports transportation and a number of other plastic composites end use markets. That appears to be strengthening, so those are good trends for us, positively affecting our fiberglass business. We do, however, see a pause in the wind energy market where we are a large supplier for wind blades to these large turbines. That’s pausing and we do have this negative trend in commercial construction that has affected our flat glass or performance glazings business, so we’re still fighting some, I would say, some difficult market conditions in some of our end use markets, so we are still working hard to take some more costs out, but we’re trying to be patient here with these businesses, but we are clearly disappointed that we are again are reporting a loss here in the third quarter.

My second question is related to the US paint market. I’m wondering how did the dynamic between the two channels, the stores and those national accounts played out. If I’m right, I heard you say the stores sounded weaker. National account declined modestly but I recall last quarter you said national accounts were up in the single digit levels, so I’m wondering what the trends look like on a sequential basis across the two channels.

Typically the volumes do start to weaken especially later in the third quarter in the architectural coatings business here in North America, but it was a very modest weakness in our DIY home center channels. The volumes we thought were relatively stable. We do see, however, continued weakness on our company store channel and there we are seeing continued volume losses. We’ve been talking about a modest improvement in new home construction but we’re still at very low levels and we did get impacted by the weakening of the commercial construction markets here in North America. So the third quarter volume trends were still negative for us. We have closed a number of stores. We reduced our costs and infrastructure to support the business. We feel that we are in a position now with a stable store count and we will be able to profitably take advantage of volume improvement and I think you’re going to see that in new home construction and the biggest piece of the company owned stores business which is the residential repaint market, but right now we are fighting some negative trends in commercial construction and we’re going to have to look I think to 2010 to see some improvement there from a volume basis.

Your next question comes from PJ Juvekar – Citi. Analyst for PJ Juvekar – Citi: Hi, this is Anthony [inaudible] standing in for PJ. Just as a follow up to Amy’s question, on the paint store count, can you quantify how many stores you started out with in the beginning of the year, and then maybe how much you will end up with at the end of the year?

We have now a little over 400 stores. If you look at our store count last year, we were approaching 450, so we are down from let’s say last year’s peak levels to today about 10% in store count and about half of that has taken place here in 2009. Analyst for PJ Juvekar – Citi: In the DIY channel, one of your major competitors reduced selected price points, and granted we’re headed into a slower part of the season. Are you seeing any price pressure in the DIY channel?

In the DIY channel, I’m not sure exactly what you’re referring to, but obviously in our channel we go to market through primarily Lowe’s and I think that from everything that we see in the marketplace, Lowe’s is holding their own in the DIY channel and they have been I think successful in continuing to attract consumers into their stores as we discussed before. Repainting is a relatively low cost home improvement project and I think it’s held up better in the home improvement centers as opposed to some of the larger ticket items such as bathroom or kitchen remodeling, so I think the DIY segment in our home center customers have done on a relative basis better through this recession.

Your next question comes from Kevin McCarthy – Banc of America Merrill Lynch . Kevin McCarthy – Banc of America Merrill Lynch : Chuck, as you look ahead to 2010, I was wondering if you could comment on what we should expect in terms of industry volume growth in both US and European architectural coatings and maybe could provide some color as to what you’re seeing in Europe these days in terms of trends and different country trends.

We think that volume trends, if we start in Europe, I would say the volume trends are not positive. So I would say in 2010 we are not preparing for volume growth. I would say that we are talking about zero volume growth to maybe negative low single digits. So that’s the kind of volume growth. We obviously have some markets that are stronger than others but we are not forecasting volume growth in Europe for next year. In North America we think there will be modest improvement in volumes. Again, probably on the positive side, lower single digits, because I think we will be fighting a little bit of the headwind in commercial construction, but we think that residential, both new home and the repaint markets will be somewhat stronger. [audio impaired]

Your next question comes from Don Carson – UBS. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: This is [inaudible] calling in for Don. We had a couple questions. First off was the corporate line. You guys reported $15 million and I know you had an $8 million currency gain last quarter, so is that what’s going on here? What’s the real run rate for corporate going forward?

This is Vince. Similar to last quarter, the currency gains for inter-company accounts payable and receivable benefited us a few million dollars versus last quarter, and again, that’s typically a sequential event because we revalue those each quarter with the dollar weakening. That’s aided us by just a few million dollars, so I think we’re still in the $15 million to $20 million run rate per quarter, absent those currency gains. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: I thought last quarter the run rate was supposed to be around $30 million.

No, first quarter we had currency go against us which pushed the first quarter up. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: In chlor-alkali, I guess what’s your read on the price increase that are out there? I mean, we’ve been reading this, the pickup and operating rates over the summer, a little strain on realizing some of those increases. Do you see that or are they…

We think that the price increases that we have been successful and in some of the price increase throughout the third quarter, and I think what you’ll see through the coming quarters is that the prices will continue to firm in chlor-alkali, again, in what we think will be some positive trends, some of these macroeconomic in terms of the relative strengths of economies around the world and the US dollar. Those will be positive trends and we haven’t seen as we’ve been talking about on the architectural coatings side, we haven’t seen the volume in construction take off yet in a very strong direction and that will more than likely keep some of the PVC production muted. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: Just real quickly, is there a chance to increase auto production? When do you think that would help you guys get positive in glass?

Today we are in our company’s operations, we are exposed to the automotive OEM business in coatings and we are positive, we made money in the third quarter in our automotive OEM coatings businesses around the world. So that has been positive. It’s benefiting obviously from some of the restructuring actions. The automotive glass side of the ledger, that business has been divested … we divested a 60% interest in the third quarter of last year, and they are I think also benefiting from the restructuring actions that were taken after the divestiture, so I think they are improving their positioning in the automotive glass market, and benefiting here with the return of production levels in North America to improved levels. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: Do you think you can return to profitability in the fourth quarter?

It is profitable. The business, the auto glass business, is profitable. It is not included, however, in the glass operating segment. The glass operating segment does not include our 40% interest in the auto glass and services business. That operating segment only includes the performance of our two remaining glass businesses, fiberglass and performance glazing. Analyst for Don Carson – UBS: Which is down because of the construction.

In performance glazings, yes. Fiberglass still coming back from a very weak market tied to what we talked about. The transportation market, wind market being stalled out here for the moment, but we see positive trends actually in the fiberglass business and we think that will be helping us in the coming quarters.

Your next question comes from John Roberts – Buckingham Research . John Roberts – Buckingham Research: If you look at the results sequentially instead of year-over-year, how much of the 3.5% sales gain was currency, and how much of the $0.06 earnings sequential improvement was currency as well?

This is Vince again. Currency moved up just slightly. It’s too hard to look at some of our businesses sequentially because of the seasonal nature of them. You can do it I guess by comparing the sales dollars in our average margin for each segment, but there’s too much seasonality in some of the businesses to try to estimate that. John Roberts – Buckingham Research: You had a pretty significant move in the Euro sequentially and again you had a pretty good gain in this quarter because of that movement in the earnings.

From memory our currency impact last quarter was close to a dime negative. This quarter it was close to $0.04.

Your next question comes from Saul Ludwig – KeyBanc. Saul Ludwig – KeyBanc: A couple questions. With regard to the hedging on natural gas, where do you now sit for the fourth quarter and maybe the first half of next year and then a second unrelated question, you talk about Asia being about 18% of the revenues, what was the change this year, third quarter versus third quarter a year ago in Asia revenues and in Asia operating income?

First the hedging position in the fourth quarter will be similar to what we have reported here in the third quarter, so we’re hedged close to 50% at around $8 levels, so obviously we’re not taking full advantage of the lower seasonal prices that we’re seeing in the $4 to $5 range in natural gas, but it will be something similar in the fourth quarter and actually our hedging is going to decline in 2010 to more our traditional one-third hedged and this year we’ve been affected by some slightly higher hedging volumes and also lower activity levels, so I think next year you’re going to see lower hedge percentages, but probably a similar delta if prices stay where they are. Now prices have started to move up in natural gas here during September, but then we’ve seen over the last few days that some of that increase has come off. There’s been a lot of activity around hedging practices, some of these exchange rated funds that were investing in natural gas futures, so it’s a little bit of a jump now in terms of what the direction is going to be in natural gas. We didn’t have any hurricanes this season but we had some colder weather. Good storage levels however, and I think there are some external factors that are now affecting hedging going forward, so I would tell you that we’re still going to be hedged probably at a third level less than this, less than what you’ve seen this year or what you’ll still see in the fourth quarter. Saul Ludwig – KeyBanc: Are you hedged for the fourth quarter already at $8?

We are hedged for the first quarter and the hedges I would say $8 is more of an average so that we will have hedging at these kinds of levels for the first quarter, yes.

So in Asia… let me answer your question. Our sales are up in [inaudible] currencies 4% to 5% year-over-year. Currency has a slight headwind. Earnings, we’re seeing the same type of margin gains in Asia as we are globally relative to earnings. Saul Ludwig – KeyBanc: Earnings are up more than 4% to 4%?

That’s correct.

Your next question comes from Dmitry Silversteyn - Longbow Research.

Couple of questions. Number one, if you look at the industrial automotive business which improved quite markedly, at least on year-over-year negative delta that you’ve been experiencing for the first half of the year, I understand that automotive business was a big part of it. If you exclude automotive, what did the rest of the industrial business look like and if you can give us a little more detail on what your automotive OEM business looked like in the quarter.

There are three global business units in what we report as industrial coatings segment. The largest is automotive OEM coatings and the other two are industrial coatings or maybe more properly general industrial coatings and packaging coatings. Both of those are global businesses with similar trends that we’ve talked about. They had negative volumes in those business units but we have been restructuring heavily, especially in the industrial coatings business unit, so we had favorable earnings trends in those businesses as well without any offsetting volume trends. The one thing that you saw in automotive is that we do have strength in Asia and in China in particular, and we had a positive sequential quarter in North America with volumes in automotive OEM, but we still have some weakness in the end use markets for our general industrial customers. These would be the coil and extrusion markets, again, partially tied to commercial construction. We’ve seen some weakness in the appliance end use market, so we were able to offset those negative trends in general industrial and report higher sequential and higher year-over-year earnings in those businesses despite weak volumes.

Okay, so kind of the low 30s volume declines that you saw in year-over-year basis and then industrial, in general industrial, that's still going on. So the improvement it sounds like came from better Automotive business with packaging kind of holding its own being down, you know, low to mid single digits. Would that be a correct…

I would say that's correct. And we have focused heavily on reducing costs in our automotive OEM and general industrial businesses. So that's where we've really been working hard and that's where we've seen some of the larger benefits from our restructuring programs.

Sure, sure, okay. And then the second question on margin, we saw a significant margin improvement I think setting at least a couple year's record on the Optical and Specialty films business or Specialty Materials business. On the other hand we saw a pretty sharp decline into single digits on the profitability of the Commodity business. So if you look at the Optical and Specialty, was the margin recovery there a result of restructuring or raw materials or better mix or Silicas coming back and going from perhaps losing some money to making money? And then on the Commodity side, the decline in profitability, how much of that was just pricing being down, you know, significantly more sequentially as well as year-over-year and how much of it was perhaps natural gas or other input costs, you know, changing versus what they were in the first half of the year when you were able to maintain margins and double digits?

Well, I'll answer the first question. The Optical and Specialty Materials business, we had, if you look at the two segments, the Optical segment, we did have negative volumes there, modest low single digit volume declines in the Optical business, although we still feel that in transitions, our Photochromic business that represents the majority of our Optical business unit, that they were still performing better than the industry as a whole. So volume trends were still negative there but only slightly. And we have worked hard there at cost reduction, especially here over the last quarter or two. You know, we had a very strong first quarter in that business with some product launches in Europe. The volume trends haven't been quite strong here over the last two quarters. So we have been focusing on cost reduction opportunities there as well. And in the Silicas business unit as you referred to, we did see some nice strengthening. And there I would say the biggest pickup was in some end use markets tied to the batteries and tire markets. And we had also restructuring actions in that business plus they are a natural gas user. So we had both raw material benefit from natural gas. We had lower costs from our restructuring and some end market strength. So if you looked at the two components even though Silicas is the smaller business within that reporting segment, Silicas actually had more improvement than we saw even in the Optical business. On the chlor-alkali side I think that was your question. What was the question again?

I was wondering what the decline into single digits in operating profits, was that just a question of pricing finally catching up or was there some negative comps where there was natural gas or other input costs or transportation that cost the margin to decline into single digits.

Well, the pricing is the biggest driver of the declining earnings. It's actually been helped somewhat by lower natural gas and some of our cost efforts there as well. But the negative trend in that business has been price.

Ladies and gentlemen, we only have time for two further questions. Your next question comes from the line of Michael Judd - Greenwich Consultants.

In terms of the pattern of sales into the automotive industry I guess what I’m hearing is that obviously July was relatively weak. They had a very good August and September's been pretty good. In terms of your comments about sequentially production being sort of flattish, I mean, that must imply that you're anticipating a weaker type of December. And, you know, just sort of in terms of the seasonal understanding of that business, do you anticipate that December and January will be weak? And when would you expect to begin to see a pick up in production potentially in the first quarter?

Well, I would say here if we're talking about North America and today you have different dynamics in each region of the world and you have, as we've been talking about, a lot of strength in China, as an example. But here in North America we did have a strong, you know, August and September, not by historical standards but certainly by what we've seen earlier this year. And that trend is continuing in October and November as the North American car makers are rebuilding their inventories. I think that at this point December is historically a weaker month and the shutdowns can come close to Christmas or before. And last year, actually, the fourth quarter in automotive production stayed strong through November and early December and then really dropped off and they stayed down well into the first quarter and actually they didn't really start having production at a significant level until the end of July. So I would say that we have good visibility in October and November. We think they'll be rebuilding their inventories. And I think then they'll probably make decisions in December depending on the demand levels or sales levels that we see. Sales levels dropped off in September after the expiration of Cash for Clunkers. And I think the automakers are going to wait and see how the trends develop before they say when they're going to shut down production in December or when they will start back in January. So it's still, I think, a little bit of a wait and see. But obviously anything that they're making, and we think they'll be back making cars, you know, in January. That will be significantly higher than what we saw in the first two quarters of 2009 where production levels were at levels that were, you know, more like 5 million to 6 million auto builds in North America. That was the rate in the first two quarters of this year, which I don't think is a sustainable level. And so we'll certainly be bouncing nicely off those levels in 2010 in North America.

Your final question is a follow-up from the line of Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy – Banc of America – Merrill Lynch: Quick follow-up on pension, do you have a preliminary 2010 outlook for pension expense and potential cash contributions next year?

Well, the cash contributions - this is Bill - is going to be roughly what is was in 2009. We don't anticipate much of a change there on a worldwide basis. Some of our pension contributions performance will be dictated really at the end of the year as the final data is reset. The one thing we have done this year as you're aware of is put some shares in relative to cash. And we may do that as well next year rather than putting in cash.

And, Kevin, we had $200 million of cash, $100 million of shares just as a clarification. Kevin McCarthy – Banc of America – Merrill Lynch: What was the rationale for the share component of that contribution?

Several reasons, one that by putting in the shares we have extremely high dividend yield. And when we put it into shares we're at a pretty good value. And basically what we did for the first contribution was offset it with an equity forward so that basically the interest rate we were paying on the equity forward was less than what the dividend yield was, was actually cash positive going in and we got the full deduction for the pension. Now, we did it a little bit here again in the third quarter and that's why you see a little bit higher share comp action in the third quarter because we're actually exercising and putting that equity forward in here beginning in October. Kevin McCarthy – Banc of America – Merrill Lynch: A second piece on the income statement side, you know, if we assume relatively stable capital markets over the next couple of months, do you have an idea of what the expense might be for 2010?

I don't think we're ready to get into that detail. We still have to go through our actuarial efforts and, you know, that's something we can offer more information on as we get closer to the year-end.

And we're reached the limit for Q&A today. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Chuck Bunch for any closing remarks.

I want to thank all of you for your attention. We appreciate the dialogue and the Q&A and all of your support and we're very pleased with our results. And we look forward to talking to you in the coming weeks. Thank you.

Thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the presentation. You may now disconnect. Good day.