0. Bekaert in a nutshell
Bekaert in a nutshell

1. Bekaert at a glance
Founded in 1880
Customers in 120 countries and in the most diverse sectors
Worldwide production platform
employees worldwide
Combined sales of 3.2 billion euro
Consolidated sales of 2 billion euro – 7.3% EBIT margin on sales
Euronext® Brussels

2. Sustainable Profitable Growth
Strategy
Sustainable Profitable Growth
Worldwide
Market and technological leadership
in advanced metal transformation and
in advanced materials and coatings

3. Bekaert is market leader
 Champagne cork (n° 1)
Examples
 Coated wire (n° 1)
 Fibers (n° 1)
 Dramix® (n° 1)
 Premix gas burners for condensing boilers (n° 1)
 Tire cord (n° 1)
 Film Coatings (n° 2)

4. Active in the most diverse sectors
Automotive 35% 
Diverse 65%
construction, telecom, glass, offshore,
textiles, chemistry, agriculture, energy … 

5. Bekaert is technological leader
Core competences
Advanced metal
transformation 
Advanced materials
and coatings    
From wire rod to advanced wire products
From ultra fine
fibers to advanced
materials
From traditional
coatings to advanced coatings

6. Advanced wire products
Steel wires, steel cords and other wire products for a broad range of applications in the most diverse sectors 
 Bekaert is the number one in wire drawing
 One tire in four is reinforced with Bekaert steel cord products
 Bekaert steel wire fibers reinforce concrete all over the world
Advanced wire
products
91%

7. Advanced materials
Metal fiber products for textiles, filtration and conductive plastics
Environment-friendly gas burners based on metal fibers 
 Bekaert is the number one in ultra-thin metal fibers
 Your car window has been shaped using Bekaert metal fiber cloth
 Your environment-friendly boiler has a Bekaert gas burner
Advanced materials 5%

8. 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 film for architectural and automotive applications
Sputtered industrial film, e.g. for flexible circuitry
Advanced coatings 4% 
 Bekaert is the number one in sputter targets for low
 E-glass and in diamond-like coatings for racing cars  Bekaert is the number two in solar and safety window film

9. Bekaert is a global player, active worldwide
North America employees € 637 million combined sales:
20%
Europe employees € million combined sales:
31%
Asia employees € 386 million combined sales:
12%
Other regions 90 employees
€ 53 million combined sales: 2%
Combined sales : 3.2 billion euro
Offices
Production plants
Latin America
5 490 employees € million combined sales:
35%