Combining Competencies for Process Excellence

Comprehensive Platinum based solutions for key industries

Umicore is a materials technology group

Umicore is a global materials technology group. It focuses on application areas where its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy makes a real difference. Its activities are centred on four business areas: Catalysis, Energy Materials, Performance Materials and Recycling. Each business area is divided into market focused business units offering materials and solutions that are at the cutting edge of new technological developments and essential to everyday life.

Umicore generates the majority of its revenues and dedicates most of its R&D efforts to clean technologies, such as emission control catalysts, materials for rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics, fuel cells, and recycling.

Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on an ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils 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 € 14.5 billion (€ 2.3 billion excluding metal) in 2011 and currently employs some 14,600 people.

Umicore’s business unit Platinum Engineered Materials provides single-source, tailor-made, engineered system solutions based on Platinum and related materials to the special glass and chemical industries by means of its Process Excellence Model.

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The Supporting Sponsor of the Fifth International Conference

PLATINUM METALS IN THE MODERN INDUSTRY,

 HYDROGEN ENERGY

AND LIFE MAINTENANCE IN THE FUTURE

Kunming, China