Umicore
About the company
Umicore is a materials technology group. Its activities are centered on four business areas: Advanced Materials, Precious Metals Products and Catalysts, Precious Metals Services and Zinc Specialties. Each business area 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 new technological developments. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.
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 new technological developments. Umicore's overriding goal of sustainable value creation is based on this ambition to develop, produce and recycle materials in a way that fulfils its mission: materials for a better life.
More information about our activities can be found on www.umicore.com
Opportunities
The Umicore Group has industrial operations on all continents and serves a global customer base; it generated a turnover of € 9.2 billion (€ 2.1 billion excluding metal) in 2008 and currently employs some 14,000 people. In Belgium, Umicore employs about 3000 people in sites in Brussels, Hoboken, Olen, Angleur, Bruges, Zolder, Overpelt and Vilvoorde.
This innovative high tech environment can only continue developing by stimulating individual initiatives and new great ideas. Umicore not only develops the materials for these ideas, but also the ideas for the materials.
If you are someone who wants to work towards “a better life”, who has far-reaching ambitions and who can identify with our core values : openness, respect, innovation, teamwork and commitment , Umicore can offer you exciting professional challenges in a dynamic, innovative and international environment.
