Key performance indicators

The following pages provide an overview of our corporate activities in the period from 2007 to 2010 on the basis of various key performance indicators, which are grouped into the areas environment, production, safety, and human resources. We are currently reviewing whether to expand the recording of performance indicators in select areas.

On the environmental indicators

As in our past two environmental reports, this overview again presents selected environmental data in aggregated form for ALTANA and its Divisions. As a specialty chemicals company, we make a particular effort to compile data on the areas of climate protection and energy consumption, waste, resource efficiency, and water consumption. Data about emissions into water (chemical oxygen demand or heavy metals), emissions of ozone-depleting substances, or climate-relevant gases from production processes play no or just a minor role.

Our environmental data are recorded, reviewed, and released at the individual production sites in accordance with internal specifications. Key environmental data are shown with reference to gross value added (cost of labor plus EBITDA). In their compressed form, the environmental indicators reflect tendencies in the development of the entire environmental burden of the Group.

We currently collect environmental data at 30 sites (as of Dec 31, 2010). We only consider data that make reference to gross value added relevant for our objectives and the corresponding degree of achievement.

The following sites or Group companies were not included:

1. Company acquired during the reporting period
2. Production sites of Instruments

Furthermore, we did not include data of non-production companies (e.g. administration, laboratories). They are not subject to the operational management of the production site or are non-production companies, which are not part of the balancing scope.

Please refer to Section Environment for more information on the measures that led to changes in our environmental performance indicators.