Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we will be begin question and answer session. (Operator Instructions). And our first question does come from the line of Mark Parr with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Mark Parr - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Hi, good morning Rock.
Roderick Baty
Good morning Mark.
Mark Parr - KeyBanc Capital Markets
How you are doing?
Roderick Baty
Good. How are you?
Mark Parr - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Hanging in there. And so is that in Alabama yesterday is a lot hotter and I just appeared in Cleveland?
Roderick Baty
I see. No global warming happening in Cleveland.
Mark Parr - KeyBanc Capital Markets
That was 64 degrees this morning. Actually got down to 62 on the way anyway. I don't need to -- and one thing I was curious about, you talked a little bit about the pick up in the macro environment.
Roderick Baty
Yes.
Mark Parr - KeyBanc Capital Markets
And I have may have missed some of your comments, but did you give you some color on whether you're seeing more pick up in Europe than in the U.S. or did you talk about the magnitude as it relative to the second quarter levels and what the potential impact on revenues might be for the third quarter?
Roderick Baty
Yeah, I didn't quantify, but I'm okay with quantifying by saying that we've seen around our low single-digit improvements Markin revenue in demand versus the second quarter not into the third quarter. Of course I would tell you that we don't have visibility into the month of September yes, the final month of the quarter. But as of right, if we had to give you a forecast of the third quarter, we'd say that it’s low single-digit, high -- excuse me high single-digit improvement over the first half run rate.
James Dorton
And normally we have -- hey Mark, this is Jim. We have a nine or 10 to 15% reductions in the third quarter due to the some of shutdowns in Europe. So, de-stocks are up it's an improvement itself.
Roderick Baty
And then the other part of your question Mark was are we seeing by region, differences and we are. Asia in particular as everybody knows is coming back very strong and the demand for facility and the Xingjian China looks to be very good for the last half versus the first half and I think that initially we saw improvement first from automotive in Europe, but that's been followed by some automotive improvement in terms of just the month of August was an example in our U.S. operations as well.
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