Group structure - BWT Group

Outlook for 2000
Target for 2000:
Group turnover € 295 million,
ÖVFA result € 17 million
R&D department to continuously
minimise or obviate altogether the
use of chemicals in water treatment
processes, to reduce energy
consumption and to manage rising
water treatment costs by means of
closed cycle solutions. BWT has
set itself the task of developing
economical and ecological product
and process concepts for the
entire water cycle, from source
back to earth.
For the current business year
2000, BWT anticipates an increase
in the consolidated group turnover
to € 295 million, equivalent to an
increase of 11.1% compared with
1999 (€ 265.5 million). The planned
result calculated on the basis
of the ÖVFA formula for the year
2000 amounts to more than € 17
million and once again shows a
double digit growth rate.
After the invention of the unique
limescale protection device AQA
total, the great efforts of BWT’s
basic research division lead to further
success at the beginning of
the year 2000: BWT FuMA-Tech
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tanding research team, are reasons
for our continued optimism for a
successful future development of
the Best Water Technology group
of companies.
R&D Expenditure
(in € million)
Unique research achievements,
such as the bipolar electrode in the
AQA total limescale protection
device or FuMa-Tech’s recently
presented high-performance
membrane for fuel cells, as well as
the knowledge of having an outs- 1999 1998
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introduced an entirely new highperformance
membrane which
opens up wholly new possibilities
for fuel cells, the environmentally
friendly energy source of the future.
The presentation of the research
results contributed to the
positive share price development
of BWT shares at the Vienna stock
exchange and in the long term, will
open up additional market potentials
for the Best Water Technology
Group. Soon, fuel cells may become
the energy source for laptop
computers, mobile telephones,
and for electricity and heat generation
in households or energy for
modern automobiles.