Duisburg, March 21, 2023. Fourth quarter 2022 sees PCC Group again post significant year-on-year increases in sales and earnings. Q4/2022 report highlights:

  • Consolidated sales surpass billion euro mark with an increase versus prior year of 35% to € 1,322.4 million
  • EBITDA hits € 93.6 million in the fourth quarter and € 290.3 million for full fiscal 2022, an increase of 47% year on year
  • 2022 operating profit (EBIT) at € 217.5 million, 74% up on prior-year

The fourth quarter of 2022 saw Duisburg-based investment holding company PCC SE deliver significant double-digit increases versus prior-year in both sales and earnings, clearly exceeding expectations in both metrics. “Overall, 2022 was the best financial year in our corporate history,” commented Ulrike Warnecke, Member of the Executive Board of PCC SE. “High average selling prices, especially for the chlorine by-products caustic soda, hydrochloric acid and other chlorine derivatives – plus those commanded by surfactants – were the primary reason behind this exceptionally positive business development,” Warnecke explained. “In some areas, 2022 sales volumes were also significantly above expectations. Although sales prices declined from their – in some cases – historic highs in the course of the fourth quarter, they still largely remained at an elevated level.”
The aforementioned Group financials are unaudited. Detailed information on business performance in the fourth quarter can be found together with the full-year figures in PCC Group Quarterly Report 4/2022, available for downloading as a PDF file here.

Profile of PCC SE

Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, PCC SE is the parent and investment holding company of the globally active PCC Group with its more than 3,300 employees. Its Group companies have core competencies in the production of chemical feedstocks and specialty chemicals, silicon and silicon derivatives, and in container logistics. An investor committed to the longer term, PCC SE concentrates on continuously increasing the enterprise value of its portfolio companies through sustainable investments and the ongoing creation of new value. The largest chemical producers of the PCC Group are PCC Rokita SA, a major chlorine manufacturer and Eastern Europe’s leading producer of polyols, and PCC Exol SA, one of Europe’s most advanced surfactant manufacturers. PCC BakkiSilicon hf. operates in Iceland one of the world’s most modern and climate-friendly silicon production facilities. PCC was founded in 1993 by Waldemar Preussner, sole shareholder of PCC SE, who today holds the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The PCC Group generated consolidated sales of around € 1.3 billion and earnings before interest/financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of some € 290 million in fiscal 2022, with capital expenditures in the same year amounting to around € 116 million.