Bekaert in a nutshell

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Bekaert in a nutshell

Bekaert in a nutshell

www.bekaert.com
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Bekaert at a glance

• Founded in 1880
• Customers in 120 countries and in the most
  diverse sectors
• Worldwide production platform
• 18 500 employees worldwide
• Combined sales of 3.2 billion euro
• Consolidated sales of 2 billion euro 7.3 EBIT
  margin on sales
• Euronext Brussels

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Strategy
Sustainable Profitable Growth
Worldwide
Market and technological leadership
in advanced metal transformation and
in advanced materials and coatings
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Bekaert is market leader
Examples
? Film Coatings (n 2)
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Active in the most diverse sectors
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Bekaert is technological leader
Core competences
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From wire rod to advanced wire products
From ultra fine fibers to advanced materials
From traditional coatings toadvanced coatings
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Advanced wire products

• Steel wires, steel cords and other wire products
  for a broad range of applications in the most
  diverse sectors

Advanced wire products 91
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Advanced materials

• Metal fiber products for textiles, filtration
  andconductive plastics
• Environment-friendly gas burners based on metal
  fibers

Advanced materials 5
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Advanced coatings

• Rotatable sputter targets and sputter
  hardware,a.o. for the glass industry
• Diamond-like and thermal sprayed coatings,mainly
  for anti-wear applications
• Solar and safety window filmfor architectural
  and automotive applications
• Sputtered industrial film,e.g. for flexible
  circuitry

Advanced coatings 4
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Bekaert is a global player, active worldwide
Latin America 5 490 employees 1 113 million
combined sales 35
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