Kemira as an investment (OLD:18.12.2024)
Global reach – local excellence
Kemira (Nasdaq Helsinki) provides a global supply of reliable chemistry and process expertise, enabling resource responsible business and better productivity for our customers in water intensive industries.
With over 100 years of experience, we partner with municipal water utilities, as well as pulp, paper, board and tissue producers to deliver visible improvements with our invisible enabler – the chemistry expertise of our 5,000 people.
In 2023, Kemira’s revenue was EUR 3.4 billion. The revenue adjusted by the Oil & Gas divestment was EUR 2.9 billion.
Resilient business model throughout cycles
Strong profitability improvement
Focus on profitable sustainable growth.
Operative EBITDA margin 19.7% (20.6%*) and operative EBIT 13.7% (14.4%*) in 2023. / *Adjusted by the Oil & Gas divestment.
Attractive dividend
Competitive and over-time increasing dividend. Dividend for fiscal year 2023 EUR 0.68 per share (2022: 0.62), payment in two installments.
Sustainability at the core of strategy
Kemira will become the leading provider of sustainable chemical solutions for water-intensive industries.
Strategically fit for future
Global trends
Changing demographics
Higher use of water, energy, tissue & board.
Growing environmental awareness
New materials to enable circular economy.
Material and resource efficiency.
Our strategy
Sustainability
Sustainability transformation driving profitable growth. The ambition is to double the revenue in water. In addition, by the end of 2030 over 500 million of our revenue is targeted to come from renewable solutions portfolio.
Profitable growth
Our long-term financial targets are: an average annual organic growth of over 4%, operative EBITDA margin of 18–21% and operative ROCE over 16%.
We enable our customers to improve their water,
energy and raw material efficiency
Our customers
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| Pulp & Paper | Industry & Water |
Our offering
We provide expertise, application know-how and chemicals that improve our customers‘ product quality, process and resource efficiency.
Three business units as of 2025
Kemira plans to move to a new operating model and organization to better enable profitable growth. The new organization is planned to have three business units: Water Solutions, Packaging & Hygiene Solutions and Fiber Essentials. Read more from the release
Segment split
Products
Innovations
Innovations
Innovating together with our customers’ to improve water, energy and raw material efficiency. Research and Development expenses totaled EUR 34.2 million in 2023 representing 1.0 % of the Group’s revenue. Kemira has altogether approximately 2,040 patents and c. 420 patent families.
Achievements in 2023:
- New product development projects: 11. 82% of them aiming to improve customers’ resource efficiency.
- New priority patent filings: 55
Innovative digital services as a future business enabler
KemConnect™ services enable data-driven chemistry management. Our solutions for real-time monitoring, advanced process control and optimization, and predictive analytics build transparency, provide a deeper understanding of processes, and enable proactive and timely actions in operations. By harnessing the power of data, our customers can increase their efficiency, quality, and profitability.
Digital services for pulp & paper
Digital solutions for water treatment
Purpose-driven culture with growth mindset
Chemistry with a purpose.
Better every day.
Kemira’s purpose illustrates the importance of chemistry in our everyday life and relates strongly also to sustainability. Our results-oriented and collaborative culture inspires and empowers our people to solve societal challenges and make a positive impact. We call it better every day.
Values
We drive performance and innovation.
We are dedicated to customer success.
We care for people and the environment.
We succeed together.
Investor contacts
Mikko Pohjala
