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What are Umicore key profitability drivers?
Advanced Materials:
- Premiums for processing cobalt, germanium and other materials into high added value compounds and products.
- Volume growth.
- Speed of introduction of new value added products.
Precious Metals Products and Catalysts:
- Ability to secure contracts with automobile manufacturers for the design and supply of catalytic pollution control systems
- Technological strength (particularly in Automotive Catalysts) based on heavy R&D spend to provide competitive edge in a sector that is driven not by pricing but by innovation and technological expertise
- Early identification of new product / growth sectors:
- development of new products to meet new emission norms (and in new future systems for example in heavy duty diesel engines)
- growth into different geographic regions
- development of new products to meet new emission norms (and in new future systems for example in heavy duty diesel engines)
- Volume growth in sales of precious metals related products in Technical Materials, Jewellery and Electroplating, Precious Metals Chemistry and Thin Film Products.
Precious Metals Services:
- Treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for refining and recycling complex precious metals bearing materials.
- Precious metals bonuses.
Zinc:
- Zinc price: the zinc price sensitivity is a function primarily of the recycling activities in Zinc Chemicals
- Product premiums
- Volume growth.