Ciech

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Business

CIECH is an international, professionally-managed group with Polish roots, with a well-established position of a leader of the chemical sector in Europe. Under seven business lines, it manufactures products which are used in the production of articles necessary in everyday life of people all over the world.

Since 2005, the company has been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and, since August 2016, also on the Stock Exchange in Frankfurt.

The main products of the CIECH Group are: soda ash, baking soda, salt, polyester and epoxy resins, crop protection products, glass products, silicates and other chemicals. They are applied, among others, in the following branches of industry: glazing, food, furniture, as well as for production of detergents, in agriculture and in construction.

The activity of the CIECH Group is based on a wide portfolio of clients, including both global chemical concerns and smaller recipients from Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. The CIECH Group operates within six business lines (Soda, Salt, Agro, Foams, Silicates, Packaging).

The CIECH Group has a strong position in many product markets and is:

  • the largest producer of soda ash in Central and Eastern Europe and the second European producer, and the second producer of baking soda in Europe (maintaining high cost competitiveness for many years);
  • Poland’s largest producer of evaporated salt, crop protection products, saturated polyester resins and glass lanterns;
  • an important supplier to European markets of calcium chloride, epoxy resins and sodium silicates.

The CIECH Group operates in five internally diversified segments:

  • Soda;
  • Agro;
  • Foams;
  • Silicates;
  • Packaging.

The core sales market for the CIECH Group is the European Union, including mainly Poland and Central Eastern European countries.Products manufactured by the CIECH Group is also exported to overseas markets and sold to customers in India, North Africa and the Middle East.

Products of the CIECH Group are manufactured in 9 production plants. Largest production plants operate in the soda segment and manufacture soda ash and soda derived products. The other plants are dedicated to the agro, foams, silicates and packaging segments, and are located in Poland.

Strategic distribution of the Group’s plants enables optimization of logistics efforts and expansion of the distribution network which is of particular importance in the area of the soda segment’s products. Plants in Poland and Germany guarantee access to key markets and stability of supplies in Europe. Moreover, owing to the acquisition of the Spanish company Proplan in 2018, the CIECH Group gained access to attractive foreign markets in the plant protection products segment. Proplan directs its offer to clients from southern European markets (including those present in the key area of the Iberian Peninsula) and North Africa and has the potential to expand into the markets of South and Central America.

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