Driving Sustainable Economies
Pulp & Paper: Early signs of market
bottoming
Market environment in Q3 2023
.
Market remained weak at Q2 2023 levels due to
weak economic activity and inventory destocking.
Market weak particularly in EMEA.
REVENUE AND ORGANIC REVENUE GROWTH (Y-ON-Y)
EUR million
537 556
488
505
420
447
370
378 391
421
404
2%
9% 11%
11% 17%
22% 29%
28% 12% -10% -19%
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Early signs that market has reached the bottom,
no meaningful recovery in sight yet
Organic growth Q3 2023: -19%; 1-9 2023: -7%
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•
Sales volumes declined following weak market
volumes, sequentially volumes increased
modestly
Market prices for energy-intensive pulp and
bleaching chemicals declined following
normalization of electricity prices
Operative EBITDA EUR 68.9 million
•
Operative EBITDA margin rather stable at 17.1%
with sequential improvement -excellent
achievement in a challenging market environment
Q1
Q2
Q3 Q4 Q1
Q2 Q3
2021
2022
Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3
2023
OPERATIVE EBITDA AND OPERATIVE EBITDA-%
EUR million
110.9 109.4
92.3
21.7%
73.6
62.9
63.5
71.3
19.9%
65.2
68.9
57.8
60.5
17.0%
17.2%
17.1%
16.2%
16.0%
15.3%
14.4%
15.1%
15.5%
Q1
Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1
Q2 Q3 Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
2021
2022
2023
Kemira
OCTOBER 24, 2023
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