Our goals

Customer orientation

Developing our markets and paying attention to the needs of our cus-tomers are definitely top priority in everything that we do. We want to offer our customers comprehensive solutions to their needs. We base these solutions on high-quality products that we have developed our-selves, in combination with technical consultation and service.

Leading market position

We want to establish and constantly expand the leading positions we hold on our markets by building on innovation, quality and service. Therefore an important component of our business model is not only being close to our customers but also a globally oriented service mental-ity when dealing with our customers.

Global presence

In order to realize the desired growth in turnover and profits, we exploit the opportunities presented by globalization and in particular we are expanding our foreign business. We want to continue to expand our presence in our global target markets and ensure that we can be close to our customers around the world.

Innovation

Innovative products are essential for sustainable growth and for opening up new markets. We are therefore increasing our investment in research and development. We enlarge our product portfolio and our range of services by adding our own developments and through acquisitions and cooperative projects with other companies, universities and scientific insti-tutes. Innovation is the driving force for our growth and will remain so.

Sustainable growth

It is our declared aim to continually raise our turnover and operating result by more than the average for our industry, and to make shares in ALTANA an attractive long-term investment. Our shareholders should receive an attractive return on the capital invested.