http://seekingalpha.com/article/171260-h...

from the call yesterday, man I just love Sr. He could have listed more chem cos that are no longer here, but he was being kind. Interesting action today - so much volume around 7.99/8 -- major accumulator dinging enough to keep picking up the weaks at this level. ...hmmm, wonder why? yeah.

Long HUN!


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John Huntsman

Well thank you Peter, this is John Huntsman, the Executive Chairman and it’s hard to believe that 40 years ago, we started this business as young and almost in one room and witnessed a lots of peaks and valleys and challenges evolve over this period of time.

I have to say that today is really a great day for Huntsman Corporation. We have a strong balance sheet, we have an incredibly talented management team. When one looks around the world at the chemical companies that are left, and I say that are left, because over the years people has always said, “Well Huntsman won’t be around, Huntsman won’t be around,” we have got Union Carbide, we’ve got Texico we have got all these Great Arco [ph], they are all gone. We are here, we are stronger than ever, we have a tremendous leadership team, Peter is by far the finest CEO in the world in the chemical industry.

Last few weeks ago, I went partially around the world visited a lot of our sites, visited with many of our competitors, visited with a lot of the leaders of governments around the country, and I just have to say that Huntsman is really excited about what happens now in our 40th year. We lived through it of 72, we have withstood all of the recessions, depressions and oil scarce over the years and we never had a time that looked better, we never had to manage the team with more professional and committed and we are moving really aggressively.

We have a tremendous board of directors, and I guess and many people today would be saying “These are the worst of times, these are the tough challenges, we are in the middle of a recession.” I guess we would say we are really looking forward to great growth in the future, and to the sound management that we have at the present time, and moving as fast as we can possibly move in certain parts of Asia and some of the Gulf areas, a very solid company, very solid financing and a very big experienced team of people and a great product mix.

We really thank those analyst out there who some of you I look at those names, some of you were just on a call when you start tracking and as you were just young analysts and kind of retired. So congratulations, thank you very, very much for your interest in our company