First Quarter 2012 results
First Quarter 2012 results
First Quarter 2012 results
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Non-cyclical growth businesses – resilient<br />
Q1 <strong>2012</strong> (approx. 60% of EBITDA*)<br />
Industrial & Consumer<br />
Specialties<br />
Q1 <strong>2012</strong>, Analysts Presentation, 03 May <strong>2012</strong> (Copyright Clariant. All rights reserved.)<br />
� Personal Care, Construction Chemicals and Crop Protection<br />
experienced good growth<br />
� Weak de-icing business impacted by unfavorable weather<br />
conditions with a mild winter in North America and a cold<br />
but dry winter in Europe<br />
Oil & Mining Services � Particularly strong demand from the Middle East, Latin<br />
America and North America<br />
� Sales growth was driven by Oil Services and by Mining<br />
Services; the refinery business was adversely impacted by<br />
unfavorable weather conditions<br />
Additives � Additives benefitted from good demand for waxes and<br />
continued solid business in the non-halogenated flame<br />
retardants business from Asia<br />
Catalysis & Energy � Normal seasonality with lower demand in the first two<br />
quarters compared to the second half-year<br />
� Order intake and backlog above previous year<br />
Functional Materials � Growing demand, strength in Performance Packaging,<br />
strong demand for Food and Feed Additives and<br />
a recovery in the Water business compared to Q4 2011<br />
* in percent of Group EBITDA, before exceptional items<br />
Business performance Slide 11 / 35
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