MOSCOW (MRC) -- German chemicals maker Covestro, (formerly Bayer MaterialScience), hiked its full-year earnings forecast on Monday, citing an improved business outlook for the second half of the yea, reported Reuters.
It now sees its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) coming to EUR2.7 billion to EUR3.1 billion (USD3.2-3.7 billion), up from a previous forecast for EUR2.2-2.7 billion on an improved margin outlook.
It stuck with a forecast for core volume growth of 10-15%, of which around 6 percentage points are related to its newly-acquired resins business.
The group is due to publish second-quarter financial results on Aug. 6.
As MRC informed previously, earlier this month, DSM completed the sale of the resins & functional materials businesses to Covestro for EUR1.6 billion (USD1.9 billion), including EUR1.4 billion in cash.
We remind that Covestro closed the sale of its European polycarbonates (PC) sheets business to the Munich-based Serafin Group effective January 2, 2020. This includes key management and sales functions throughout Europe as well as production sites in Belgium and Italy.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated consumption of PC granules (excluding imports and exports to/from Belarus) totalled 34,000 tonnes in the first four months of 2021, up by 11% year on year (30,500 tonnes a year earlier.
Covestro (formerly Bayer MaterialScience) is an independent subgroup within Bayer. It was created as part of the restructuring of Bayer AG from the former business group Bayer Polymers, with certain of its activities being spun off to Lanxess AG. Covestro manufactures and develops materials such as coatings, adhesives and sealants, polycarbonates (CDs, DVDs), polyurethanes (automotive seating, insulation for refrigerating appliances) etc. With 2020 sales of EUR 10.7 billion, Covestro has 33 production sites worldwide and employs approximately 16,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents).
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