Clariant intends to divest significant parts of plastics & coatings business
Shortly after Saudi Arabian investor Sabic bought a 24.99 % share of Clariant, the company announced that it intends to divest the pigments, standard masterbatches and medical specialties businesses by 2020.
This divestment decision underlines Clariant's commitment to move the portfolio into higher specialty areas and to ensure best ownership for each of its businesses. Despite being well positioned and having significantly increased their profitability over the past years, the businesses to be divested do not match the Group's criteria to differentiate through innovation in higher growth and higher profitability areas.
Clariant announced an updated strategy and financial outlook as well as the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with SABIC on a significant collaboration opportunity between the two companies in the area of high performance materials. The Group intends to expand more strongly by focusing on customer-specific products and solution offerings with attractive growth prospects and above average value potential.
By 2021, following the creation of High Performance Materials and the divestment of the remaining Plastics & Coatings Business Area, Clariant expects to deliver significantly higher sales of around EUR 8 billion and an EBITDA margin of approximately 20 % with an operating cash flow of more than EUR 1 billion.
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