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About Bekaert

Bekaert seeks sustainable profitable growth based on its two core competences: advanced metal transformation and advanced materials and coatings. Bekaert aims to consolidate its position as both market and technological leader around the world. With its broad range of high technological products, systems and services, Bekaert offers high added value for its customers.

Bekaert (Euronext Brussels: BEKB) is an European based company, headquartered in Belgium, employing 18,500 people.

Bekaert, present in 120 countries, generates annual sales of more than $4.3 billion.

The main raw material for most of Bekaert’s products is wire rod. This is steel wire of about the thickness of a finger, made in a wide range of compositions and grades. Various wire products are made by drawing wire rod through dies of diminishing size, subjecting it to heat treatments of various kinds and, depending on the application, possibly applying a specific coating. These processes impart a range of properties in such areas as tensile strength, hardness, frictional resistance, corrosion resistance and adhesion. Bekaert is able to apply its many coating technologies to various materials.

The advanced coatings segment covers industrial coatings and specialized films. Within the industrial coatings activity platform, Bekaert deploys its expertise in the application of coatings to various materials, mainly glass and metal. The company manufactures a range of window films for vehicles and buildings to keep out the sun’s heat, filter out ultraviolet radiation and hold glass together in the event of breakage.

Although its main focus is on intermediate products, Bekaert keeps in close touch with end-users so that it can anticipate their needs and offer its industrial customers the solutions that give them a competitive edge in their markets. Bekaert builds win-win relationships with its customers, based on equal partnerships characterized by mutual trust and understanding. Bekaert adds value for customers and end-users all over the world.

In pursuit of its strategic objective of sustainable profitable growth, Bekaert aims for market and technological leadership and is a major player in its markets worldwide.

Bekaert in 2007

Combined sales: € 3.4 billion
Consolidated sales: € 2.5 billion
Operating result (EBIT): € 175 million
Result for the period (Group): € 153 million
Cash flow: € 299 million
Employees: 20,400 worldwide
Shares traded on Euronext® Brussels: BEKB
Market capitalization: € 2.0 billion
www.bekaert.com