Chemicals
Elementis is a speciality chemicals company producing performance additives and ingredients used in personal care, coatings and other industrial applications. Its products are designed to improve texture, stability, appearance and performance in customers' formulations.
Speciality additives for coatings and paints, personal-care ingredients, rheology modifiers, talc-based products and other formulation technologies for consumer and industrial customers.
Global personal-care and coatings markets, with customers across North America, Europe and Asia and exposure to both consumer and industrial demand.
Personal-care demand, coatings volumes, pricing, product mix, innovation, cost savings, portfolio simplification and recovery in industrial end markets.
Weak industrial demand, raw-material costs, customer destocking, currency movements, environmental regulation, commodity exposure within parts of the portfolio and execution of restructuring and disposals.
30 July 2026: first-half revenue rose to $318.2m from $290.8m and adjusted operating profit increased to $73.2m. Elementis has also simplified its portfolio through disposal activity and continued shareholder returns.
Pays interim and final dividends. The 2026 interim dividend is 1.5 US cents per share, approximately 1.1p, and is payable on 25 September to shareholders on the register on 14 August. The corresponding London ex-dividend date was 13 August 2026.
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