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The Adhesive Technologies business unit today has officially inaugurated its new production facility for aerospace applications at the Henkel site in Montornès del Vallès ‏(Montornès), Spain. With the investment of about 35 million euros, the company aims to serve the constantly growing demand for high-performance solutions supporting key trends in the global aerospace industry such as light weighting, fuel efficiency and automation.

• Sales rise by 2.8% to 4,969 million euros, organic growth +0.7%
• Operating profit ‏(EBIT)* amounts to 795 million euros ‏(-5.6%)
• EBIT margin* at 16.0% ‏(-140 basis points)
• Earnings per preferred share* reach 1.34 euros, -6.3% at constant currencies
• Strong free cash flow development: 523 million euros
• Investing in growth and increasing competitiveness

The Schwarzkopf Million Chances Award enters its second round this year and will be presented on November 6^th, 2019. The prize is awarded to charitable projects that enable girls and women to create a better future for themselves. Now the prestigious jury has been nominated.

Further progress in sustainable packaging does not only relate to primary product packaging, but also to transport packaging. In collaboration with its partner Papier-Mettler, one of the market-leading European manufacturers of flexible packaging, Henkel starts using the “I’m eco^®” shrink film for its automatic dishwashing brand Somat. The film with more than 50 percent recycled material was introduced to various European markets in which shrink film is used as transport packaging – among them Russia and Italy.