Key Performance Indicators

EBITDA is EBIT before depreciation and amortization.

Margins are calculated based on sales.

Sum of cash and cash equivalents, noncurrent and current securities, and noncurrent and current financial liabilities.

Capital expenditures excluding acquisitions.

Sum of cash flow from operating activities (excluding changes in advance payments) and cash flow from long-term investing activities (before securities), including additions due to finance leases.

CO₂ emissions are measured as per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol: “A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard”), published by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Scope 1: direct CO₂ emissions. Scope 2: indirect emissions from the consumption of purchased energy (converted into CO₂ equivalents for purchased electricity) based on national electricity mixes. For the purposes of sustainability reporting, the Group’s direct CO₂ emissions also included intra-plant traffic emissions at our sites, emissions generated during biological wastewater treatment, and the emissions of the emergency power units used during the shutdown of the Alz canal at the Burghausen site.

One of our environmental targets concerns total dust emissions. We are reporting on these emissions for 2016 for the first time (calculated retroactively to 2012, the initial year of our dust-related environmental objective).