With its companies combined in EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG, the EMS Group with its world-wide activities conducted in the fields of Performance Polymers, Fine Chemicals and Engineering boosted consolidated net sales by 4,7 % to CHF 365 million (corresponding period, previous year: CHF 349 million) in the first four months of the 1998 financial year, operational cash flow by 6,9 % to CHF 89 million (CHF 83 million), and income from operations by 7,2 % to CHF 70 million (CHF 65 million).
