Kemira Facts
Kemira in Brief
Kemira is a global two billion euro water chemistry company that is focused on serving customers in water-intensive industries. The company offers water quality and quantity management that improves customers’ energy, water, and raw material efficiency. Kemira’s vision is to be a leading water chemistry company.
Key Figures
Our Strategy
We focus on water chemistry. Our core business consists of three customer-oriented businesses, Paper, Municipal & Industrial, and Oil & Mining, which are extensively utilizing a shared product portfolio as well as our know-how in water chemistry and product applications. We implement our strategy through an integrated structure and uniform processes and procedures.
Financial Targets
- Growth in revenues
- Mature markets > 3%
- Emerging markets > 7%
- Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), % of revenue > 10%
- Cash flow after CAPEX and dividend > € 0M
- Gearing < 60 %
Our Customers
- Pulp & paper industries
- Municipal water
- Oil & gas industries
- Mining industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Detergent & cleaning industries
- Feed industry
- Food industry
- Selected industries
Paper
We offer chemical products and integrated systems that help customers in the water-intensive pulp and paper industry to improve their profitability as well as their water, raw material and energy efficiency. Our solutions support sustainable development.
Municipal & Industrial
We offer water treatment chemicals for municipalities and industrial customers. Our strengths are high-level application know-how, a comprehensive range of water treatment chemicals, and reliable customer deliveries.
Oil & Mining
We offer a large selection of innovative chemical extraction and process solutions for the oil and mining industries, where water plays a central role. Utilizing our expertise, we enable our customers to improve efficiency and productivity.
ChemSolutions
We offer chemical products and customer-driven solutions to the food, feed, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Utilizing our application expertise, our customers can benefit through improved profitability and enhanced product quality.
President and CEO
Harri Kerminen, President and CEO has acted as the Group’s Managing Director as of January 1, 2008. The Group Deputy CEO is Jyrki Mäki-Kala.
Members of Board of Directors as of March 22, 2011