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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.

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19.9%

EBITDA margin (2023)


2 320

Sales in million CHF (2023)


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.

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19.9%

EBITDA margin (2023)


2 320

Sales in million CHF (2023)


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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10.3%

EBITDA margin (2023)


1 000

Sales in million CHF (2023)

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.

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10.3%

EBITDA margin (2023)


1 000

Sales in million CHF (2023)

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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11.2%

EBITDA margin (2023)


1 057

Sales in million CHF (2023)

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.

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11.2%

EBITDA margin (2023)


1 057

Sales in million CHF (2023)

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
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Our portfolio is designed to meet very specific needs with as much precision as possible. At the same time, our research and development is focused on addressing the key trends of our time. These include energy efficiency, renewable raw materials, emission-free mobility, and conserving finite resources.
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