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    10.24.17
    Covestro said it delivered the strongest quarter in the company’s history in the third quarter of 2017.

    At €491 million ($57.76M), net income was up 89.6 percent on the prior-year quarter. At the same time, EBITDA was 50.2 percent higher, and sales rose 16.9 percent over the same period the previous year.

    Core volumes increased 2.6 percent. The boost in sales was primarily due to higher selling prices, mainly in the Polyurethanes segment, with a positive effect of 18.4 percent. FOCF amounted to €658 million ($77.41M), up 1.9 percent over the prior-year quarter. Based on these strong results, Covestro decided to review its announced target to deliver €5 billion ($5.88B) of cumulative FOCF until year-end 2021. However, on Group level, the company reiterates its guidance for the full year 2017.


    “We are currently enjoying tremendous growth momentum and we are delivering records in revenues, profitability and cash generation," CEO Patrick Thomas said. "The extraordinary cash generation provides us, earlier than originally expected, with the opportunity to return significant amounts of cash to our shareholders while preserving the ability to consider bolt-on acquisition opportunities.

    "Therefore we decided to start a share buyback for either up to €1.5 billion or up to 10 percent of the outstanding stock capital without further delay.” 


    Added Dr. Markus Steilemann, a Board of Management member who oversees marketing, sales and innovation: “We are actively working on a strategy update to further benefit from the generational opportunity our current momentum offers. Digitization will be an integral part of our corporate strategy. We aim to give our customers a simpler, more efficient way to shop for our standard products. Currently, we are developing the new online platform which is expected to generate around €1 billion in sales as early as the end of 2019."

    In this context, Covestro has identified three dimensions of digitization: digital business processes, digital customer experience and new, digital business models. 

    Polyurethanes and Polycarbonates highly profitable 
    In the third quarter, core volumes in the Polyurethanes segment were up 4.3 percent over the same quarter of the previous year. The TDI product group above all contributed to this development. The segment’s EBITDA more than doubled to €556 million from the prior-year quarter, a development largely due to higher margins as a result of a generally positive supply and demand situation. In the course of doubling MDI capacity at its Brunsbüttel facility in northern Germany to around 400,000 metric tons per year by the end of 2018, the company already held a topping-out ceremony to celebrate the completion of shell construction at the plant.

    The Polycarbonates segment recorded an increase in core volumes of 1.5 percent compared with the prior-year quarter. As expected, this growth was at the level of the second quarter of 2017. The segment’s EBITDA saw an upturn of 8.8 percent to €211 million. Higher margins and an increase in volumes sold had a positive effect. In this segment’s key customer industries, Covestro works closely with designers to develop the products of the future. The company launched an online platform for industrial design for this purpose in September, among other projects.

    Core volumes in the Coatings, Adhesives, Specialties segment decreased by 5 percent from the prior-year quarter due to a challenging competitive environment. At €119 million in the second quarter, EBITDA was 12.5 percent below the previous year’s figure. The Group pushes boundaries to continually update its product range: Recently, a solar-powered car designed by students at RWTH Aachen University participated in the nearly 3,000-kilometer World Solar Challenge through the Australian desert, protected by Covestro coatings.

    Very positive first nine months of 2017
    Core volumes rose by 3.2 percent over the prior-year period due to continued healthy demand. Sales jumped 19.5 percent to €10.6 billion, and EBITDA increased by 57.4 perecent to €2.6 billion. FOCF also grew significantly, by 23.8 percent to €1.2 billion. Due to the control termination agreement reached with Bayer AG in September, Covestro has taken a further step toward complete independence.




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