18.3%
EBITDA margin (2025)
2 112
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Personal & Home Care
- Crop Solutions
- Industrial Applications
- Base Chemicals
- Oil Services
- Mining Solutions
Business driver
- Consumer lifestyle-driven – comfort and well-being
- Green and sustainable products, based on natural ingredients (botanicals) free of harmful substances
- Global nutrition requirements (agriculture)
- Reducing carbon footprint and responsible production and consumption
- Formulations solutions provider with superior performance and a favorable sustainability profile
Care Chemicals
The Business Unit Care Chemicals has a clear focus on highly attractive, high-margin, and low-cyclicality segments with a large share of the business being consumer-facing in Consumer Care and Industrial Applications.
Care Chemicals
The Business Unit Care Chemicals has a clear focus on highly attractive, high-margin, and low-cyclicality segments with a large share of the business being consumer-facing in Consumer Care and Industrial Applications.
18.3%
EBITDA margin (2025)
2 112
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Personal & Home Care
- Crop Solutions
- Industrial Applications
- Base Chemicals
- Oil Services
- Mining Solutions
Business driver
- Consumer lifestyle-driven – comfort and well-being
- Green and sustainable products, based on natural ingredients (botanicals) free of harmful substances
- Global nutrition requirements (agriculture)
- Reducing carbon footprint and responsible production and consumption
- Formulations solutions provider with superior performance and a favorable sustainability profile
Catalysts
The Business Unit Catalysts contributes significantly to value creation in our customers’ operations, ensuring that finite raw materials and energy are used efficiently and, in turn, ensuring the quality and yield of processes.
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20.1%
EBITDA margin (2025)
816
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Propylene
- Specialties
- Syngas & Fuels
- Ethylene
- Biofuels & Derivatives
Business driver
- Improving energy efficiency in chemical production
- Decarbonization of the transport sector
- Sustainable, emission-free mobility solutions
- Circular economy solutions through the extensive use of renewable resources
- Increasing legal requirements for renewable energy sources
Catalysts
The Business Unit Catalysts contributes significantly to value creation in our customers’ operations, ensuring that finite raw materials and energy are used efficiently and, in turn, ensuring the quality and yield of processes.
20.1%
EBITDA margin (2025)
816
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Propylene
- Specialties
- Syngas & Fuels
- Ethylene
- Biofuels & Derivatives
Business driver
- Improving energy efficiency in chemical production
- Decarbonization of the transport sector
- Sustainable, emission-free mobility solutions
- Circular economy solutions through the extensive use of renewable resources
- Increasing legal requirements for renewable energy sources
Adsorbents & Additives
The Business Unit Adsorbents & Additives creates value through enhanced sustainability benefits, for example by enabling material circularity and by reducing customers’ dependency on fossil resources to reduce CO2 emissions.
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16.0%
EBITDA margin (2025)
987
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Adsorbents EMEA
- Adsorbents APAC
- Adsorbents Americas
- Additives Coatings & Adhesives
- Additives Polymer Solutions
The Adsorbents business is primarily divided into the EMEA, APAC and Americas regions, with local representatives for Purification, Foundry & Specialties, and Cargo & Device Protection.
Business driver
- Stricter global chemical regulations and customer expectations drive sustainability in purification as well as circularity in plastics, coatings, and adhesives.
- Lightweight, sustainable fire safety and thermo-resistance requirements for digitalization and e- mobility
- Strong growth for renewable fuels and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
- Consumer demand for enhanced health and safety
Adsorbents & Additives
The Business Unit Adsorbents & Additives creates value through enhanced sustainability benefits, for example by enabling material circularity and by reducing customers’ dependency on fossil resources to reduce CO2 emissions.
16.0%
EBITDA margin (2025)
987
Sales in million CHF (2025)
Business segments
- Adsorbents EMEA
- Adsorbents APAC
- Adsorbents Americas
- Additives Coatings & Adhesives
- Additives Polymer Solutions
The Adsorbents business is primarily divided into the EMEA, APAC and Americas regions, with local representatives for Purification, Foundry & Specialties, and Cargo & Device Protection.
Business driver
- Stricter global chemical regulations and customer expectations drive sustainability in purification as well as circularity in plastics, coatings, and adhesives.
- Lightweight, sustainable fire safety and thermo-resistance requirements for digitalization and e- mobility
- Strong growth for renewable fuels and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
- Consumer demand for enhanced health and safety
