At a Glance

All in one. With this report, Clariant wants to take you on a journey of numbers. Behind each number there are successes and failures, lessons learned and experiences, accomplishments and impacts. Clariant wants to tell these stories: where the numbers come from, how they connect, and what impact they have.

In this second annual report published in the form of an Integrated Report, Clariant provides an in-depth view of its holistic approach to creating added value for customers, employees, shareholders, and the environment. According to its three brand values – – Clariant takes financial and non-financial aspects of value creation into account. This is why Clariant shares not just financial figures, but also the numbers that represent the various capitals used and affected: financial, intellectual, manufactured, human, relational, and natural. These numbers highlight Clariant’s most precious values, and the stories behind them – all in one.

Performance

Financial capital in CHF m

 

 

2017

 

2016

1

Contains the contribution to growth from both Top Line Innovation as well as Life Cycle Innovation. Potential cannibalization of existing sales caused by Life Cycle Innovation in certain cases has not been excluded from calculation

2

Including own employees and external staff

Sales

 

6 377

 

5 847

EBITDA before exceptionals

 

974

 

887

EBITDA margin before exceptional items (%)

 

15.3

 

15.2

EBIT before exceptional items

 

673

 

622

Net income

 

302

 

263

Basic earnings per share (in CHF)

 

0.84

 

0.78

Adjusted earnings per share (in CHF)

 

1.47

 

1.12

Operating cash flow

 

428

 

646

Investment in property, plant and equipment

 

248

 

297

Research & Development expenditures

 

211

 

206

Growth through innovation (%)1

 

2.5

 

1.5

Personnel expenditures2

 

1 516

 

1 435

Raw material procurement

 

2 674

 

2 221

Total assets

 

8 229

 

8 365

Equity

 

2 939

 

2 546

Equity ratio (%)

 

35.7

 

30.4

Net debt

 

1 539

 

1 540

Gearing ratio (%)

 

52

 

60

Intellectual capital

 

 

2017

 

2016

Patents (year end)

 

6 600

 

6 500

Active innovation projects

 

>370

 

320

Of which Class 1 Projects with double-digit million sales potential or of strategic relevance

 

>65

 

60

Scientific collaborations

 

>125

 

125

Manufactured capital

 

 

2017

 

2016

1

Restated to show all productions sites instead of production sites in performance reporting scope only

Research & Development Centers

 

8

 

8

Technical Centers

 

>50

 

>50

Production sites

 

125

 

1201

Countries with production facilities

 

39

 

40

Raw materials procured (in m t)

 

3.14

 

2.82

Production (in m t)

 

4.60

 

4.09

People

Human capital in FTE (Full Time Equivalents)

 

 

2017

 

2016

Total staff

 

18 135

 

17 442

Employees

 

10 482

 

9 881

Of which male

 

7 264
(69%)

 

6 734
(68%)

Of which female

 

3 218
(31%)

 

3 147
(32%)

Workers

 

7 653

 

7 560

Of which male

 

7 066
(92%)

 

6 995
(93%)

Of which female

 

587
(8%)

 

565
(7%)

Total training hours

 

192 000

 

201 884

Training hours (Ø per participant)

 

20

 

19

Staff in Research & Development

 

~1 100

 

~1 100

Lost Time Accident Rate (LTAR: accidents with at least 1 day lost/200 000 work hours)

 

0.20

 

0.19

Relationship capital

 

 

2017

 

2016

1

Surveys are conducted every two years

Employee participation in engagement survey

 

n.a.1

 

11 000

Raw material suppliers

 

7 000

 

5 250

Raw material supply base by spend covered by sustainability evaluations (%)

 

65

 

63

Survey responses from customer contacts obtained

 

n.a.1

 

2 693

Customers who want to continue doing business with Clariant (%)

 

n.a.1

 

91

Planet

Natural capital

 

 

2017

 

2016

Total energy consumption (in m kWh)

 

3 245

 

2 950

Energy consumption (in kWh/t production)

 

706

 

719

Total water consumption (in m m3)

 

49

 

48

Total waste water generation (in m m3)

 

13

 

13

Total greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 & 2 CO2 equivalents) (in m t)

 

0.97

 

0.89

Greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 & 2 CO2 equivalents) (in kg/t production)

 

211

 

218

Total quantity of waste (in thousand t)

 

198

 

147

Performance, People, Planet

Clariant’s three brand values, under which the different capitals considered in integrated reporting have been categorized in this report: Performance (financial and intellectual capital), People (human and relationship capital), and Planet (manufactured and natural capital). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

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