First-Half Report 1999 of the EMS group

With its companies combined in EMS-CHEMIE HOLDING AG, the EMS Group with its activities in the fields of Performance Polymers, Fine Chemicals and Engineering presents its Group accounts as in the previous years according to the International Accounting Standards IAS. The scope of consolidation has experienced a small change against the previous year as a result of the joint venture with H.B. Fuller (USA) which came into effect in April 1997.