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Chart Industries provided a mid-Q2 business update. Reportable April net cash provided by operating activities for continuing operations of $15.5M and corresponding free cash flow after including capital expenditures of $12.6M, driven by earnings, cash collections and supplier terms extensions. The company completed five-year long-term agreement with industrial gas customer for field service and repair. Also, the company signed an agreement with Risco Energy Solutions to provide LNG equipment to support the rapidly growing Indonesian gas-to-power infrastructure. Chart Industries booked orders with 67 new customers in April and May, executed on $11.9M of additional cost reductions on May 29 and brought year-to-date total annualized cost reductions to $60.7M. The company said, "While the current economic situation continues to be challenging for our oil related product lines, we continue to see demand for our equipment and solutions related to the transition to clean energy infrastructure and our specialty markets. With over $60 million of cost reductions taken year-to-date, we continue to expect margin expansion throughout 2020 and strong free cash flow for the year, with debt paydown a priority. April 2020 free cash flow of $12.6 million was driven by strong earnings, cash collections and supplier terms extensions. In the past two months, we have achieved payment term extensions with 311 suppliers with an average payment term extension of 38 days (new payment terms for those suppliers average 89 days).Through May 29, 2020, second quarter orders totaled approximately $135 million, with orders in-house that will be booked in the first days of June totaling an additional $14 million. In April and May, we received orders from 67 new customers, including 20 in China, where quarter to date orders and sales have exceeded our original 2020 plan.Demand for oxygen related critical care products was strong in the month of April and first two weeks of May, while quoting activity for traditional industrial gas applications has increased in the second half of May as the hyper-focus on oxygen delivery has subsided to pre-COVID-19 levels. We continue to see consistent and strong quoting and order levels for fueling stations, repair and service, small-scale LNG infrastructure and specialty markets, including the receipt of a $2.3 million order for a European country's Armed Forces. We also expect to receive a small-scale terminal order in North America in June 2020. E&C Cryogenics demand for quick turn refurbishment, repair and service-related product and services has increased over the past 8 weeks, with orders of $7.2 million associated with this type of work. Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass big LNG project continues on schedule, and in May, we booked an additional $1 million order related to the project.In addition to E&C Cryo, we continue to grow repair and service across our four segments, including hitting a major milestone today with the completion of a five-year long-term agreement with a major industrial gas customer for repair and service...Given the weak demand for air-cooled heat exchangers and the continued optimization of our cost structure, we took further reductions on May 29, 2020. The total cost reductions taken last Friday equaled $11.9 million in annualized cost savings, bringing the year-to-date total to $60.7 million of annualized cost savings. Of the $60.7 million, approximately $51 million are structural changes that can be maintained at volume levels above $1.6 billion."