the company has during the second quarter of its revenue, 1 percent, and earnings before taxes by 4 percent, the company on Tuesday announced. The figures were slightly better than analysts had expected.
A sharp drop in the division's Materials (such as plastics for the aerospace, automotive, and construction was partially offset by an increase in the Nutrition (food ingredients).
as For Materials, net sales decreased by 16 percent and profits by 28 per cent. The work was at the end of the second quarter, a sudden silence, by the end of the COVID-19 and will be reflected in the second quarter, said the company in a note.
Businesses that saw their sales with a 6 per cent increase, and a profit of 5 per cent. In that part of the show was, according to the DSM first, an increase in the demand for supplements to animal feed, to see it, and then those to other food products.
the DSM does include projections for the full fiscal year are on the same level, and it will be an interim dividend of € 0.80 per share.