View Hoboken (Belgium) plant after the facelift (early 2009).
Profile
Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centered on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area is divided into market-focused business units.
Umicore focuses on application areas where its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments. Umicore's goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials solutions in line with its mission: materials for a better life.
The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of EUR 8.3 billion (€1.9 billion excluding metal) in 2007 and currently employs some 14,800 people.