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Eastman Chemical Co (EMN) Q1 2021 Earnings Call Transcript Motley Fool Transcribers © The Motley Fool Logo of jester cap with thought bubble. Eastman Chemical Co (NYSE: EMN) Popular Searches Operator Good day, everyone, and welcome to the First Quarter 2021 Eastman Chemical Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. This call is being broadcast live on the Eastman's website, www.eastman.com. We will now turn the call over to Mr. Greg Riddle of Eastman Chemical Company, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.SPONSORED: 10 stocks we like better than Eastman C...

KINGSPORT — Eastman Chemical announced higher revenues and earnings in its first quarter report on Thursday. “We delivered outstanding first quarter results, with adjusted EPS (earnings per share) up 20% compared with first quarter 2019 and up 5% compared with strong first-quarter 2020 results,” said Mark Costa, Eastman board chair and CEO. “First-quarter results included approximately $30 million of costs from the impact of Winter Storm Uri. The combination of continued disciplined operational execution, the diversity of our end markets, and the benefit of our innovation-...

Marat Moore Guest Opinion Last year on Earth Day, the first wave of COVID-19 had us in its grip. Across Tennessee, businesses and schools went dark, church pews emptied, and sick patients filled hospital beds. In April 2020 we could not have foreseen the losses families would suffer in the year to come, or the traumas health care workers would endure. But on this Earth Day, we have cause for cautious hope. Why? Because major pharmaceutical companies raced — and in one case, even cooperated — to develop safe vaccines. With the boost of the Defense Production Act, vaccine production a...

Fall River educators, students and school committee members want the state to cancel MCAS standardized testing at least for the current school year, saying it will add unnecessary anxiety for students and teachers in a year already fraught with stressful situations amid the pandemic. “Students are just getting back to school. We’re just getting back in the groove. And to think that we will spend the next however many weeks prepping children to taking standardized tests after missing so much curriculum, it’s just unconscionable,” Rochelle Pettenati, who teaches art at the Doran Commun...

The Fall River School Committee criticized Superintendent Matthew Malone for unprofessional behavior on the job but commended his handling of the pandemic during his annual performance evaluation on Monday night. “Moving forward, Dr. Malone must be a better leader, a better communicator and more mindful of his language, his conduct and his demeanor with the entire Fall River Public School community,” committee member Mimi Larrivee, who led the evaluation subcommittee, said as she read from the report. The superintendent evaluation rubric comes from the state’s Department of Elementary...