Solvay
2019 Annual Integrated Report

The amounts below include both continuing and discontinued operations.

In € million

Notes

2019

2018

Profit for the year

 

157

917

Adjustments to profit for the year

 

 

 

Depreciation, amortization and impairments

(F12)

1,906

944

Earnings from associates and joint ventures

(F25)

(95)

(44)

Other non operating and non cash items

(F13)

24

(12)

Additions and reversals of provisions

(F16)

154

315

Net financial charges

 

245

198

Income tax expense/income

(F14)

262

156

Changes in working capital

(F15)

(86)

(148)

Use of provisions

(F16)

(399)

(395)

Use of provisions for additional voluntary contributions (pension plans)

(F16)

(114)

 

Dividends received from associates and joint ventures

(F25)

25

25

Income taxes paid (including income taxes paid on sale of investments)

(F14)

(263)

(235)

Cash flow from operating activities

 

1,815

1,720

Acquisition (–) of subsidiaries

(F17)

(6)

(12)

Acquisition (–) of investments – Other

(F17)

(16)

(4)

Loans to associates and non-consolidated companies

 

10

(3)

Sale (+) of subsidiaries and investments

(F17)

(31)

26

Acquisition (–) of property, plant and equipment

(F17)

(751)

(691)

of which capital expenditures required by share sale agreement and excluded from Free Cash Flow

 

(59)

(38)

Acquisition (–) of intangible assets

(F17)

(106)

(142)

Sale (+) of property, plant and equipment and intangible assets

(F17)

18

42

of which cash flow related to the sale of real estate in the context of restructuring/dismantling/remediation

 

 

9

Dividends from equity instruments measured at fair value through other comprehensive income

 

4

 

Changes in non-current financial assets

 

(1)

 

Cash flow from investing activities

 

(880)

(784)

Proceeds from perpetual hybrid bonds issuance

(F31)

 

298

Redemption of perpetual hybrid bonds

(F31)

(701)

 

Acquisition (–)/sale (+) of treasury shares

(F33)

23

(22)

Increase in borrowings

(F36)

3,044

2,444

Repayment of borrowings

(F36)

(2,776)

(2,993)

Changes in other current financial assets

(F36)

(32)

(25)

Payment of lease liabilities

(F36)

(110)

 

Net interests paid

 

(118)

(114)

Coupons paid on perpetual hybrid bonds

(F31)

(115)

(111)

Dividends paid

 

(426)

(411)

Other

(F18)

(19)

123

Cash flow from financing activities

 

(1,230)

(811)

of which increase/decrease of borrowings related to environmental remediation

 

8

 

Net change in cash and cash equivalents

 

(295)

126

Currency translation differences

 

1

(14)

Opening cash balance

 

1,103

992

Closing cash balance

(F36)

809

1,103