Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centered on four business groups: Energy Materials, Performance Materials, Catalysis and Refining. Each business group is divided into market-focused business units.
 
Umicore focuses on application areas where it knows its expertise in materials science, chemistry and metallurgy can make a real difference, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of exciting, new technological developments. Umicore’s overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle metals in a way that fulfills its mission: materials for a better life.