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Bekaert in a nutshell

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Bekaert in a nutshell

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Bekaert at a glance

- Founded in 1880

- Customers in 120 countries and in the most diverse sectors

- Worldwide production platform

- 18 500 employees worldwide

- Combined sales of 3.2 billion euro

- Consolidated sales of 2 billion euro – 7.3% EBIT margin on sales

- Euronext® Brussels

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Sustainable Profitable Growth

Market and technological leadership

in advanced metal transformation and

in advanced materials and coatings

Worldwide

Strategy

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Bekaert is market leader

Fibers (n° 1)

Film Coatings (n° 2)

Premix gas burners

for condensing boilers (n° 1)

Champagne cork (n° 1)

Dramix® (n° 1)

Coated wire (n° 1)

Tire cord (n° 1)

Examples

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Active in the most diverse sectors

Automotive 35%

Diverse 65%

construction, telecom, glass, offshore,

textiles, chemistry, agriculture, energy …

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Bekaert is technological leader

Core competences

Advanced metaltransformation

Advanced materials

and coatings

From wire rod to advanced wire products

From ultra fine fibers to advanced materials

From traditionalcoatings toadvanced coatings

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Advanced wire products

Advanced wire

products

91%

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

- Steel wires, steel cords and other wire products for a broad range of applications in the most diverse sectors

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Advanced materials

Advanced

materials

5%

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

- Metal fiber products for textiles, filtration andconductive plastics

- Environment-friendly gas burners based on metal fibers

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Advanced coatings

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

- 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 filmfor architectural and automotive applications

- Sputtered industrial film,e.g. for flexible circuitry

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Bekaert is a global player, active worldwide

Latin America5 490 employees€ 1 113 million combined sales:

35%

North America2 270 employees€ 637 million combined sales:

20%

Europe6 320 employees€ 1 006 million combined sales:

31%

Asia4 350 employees€ 386 million combined sales:

12%

Other regions90 employees€ 53 million combined sales:

2%

Combined sales 2006:

3.2 billion euro

OfficesProduction plants

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better together

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