Q2 increase in sales for Clariant

27/07/2012
Leather chemicals manufacturer Clariant has announced an increase of 6% in sales across all its business units for the second quarter of 2012.

At the regional level, Asia-Pacific and Latin America outperformed the other regions with sales growth of 18% respectively 17%, the company said, while Europe was weak, mainly in the southern part of the continent.

Resulting from lower production costs and sales price increases, Clariant’s gross margin increased to 28.7% compared to 27.5% in the second quarter of 2011. The company said a sales price increase of 3% “fully compensated” for a 1% increase in raw material costs year-on-year.