Hikes help profits

摘要

Higher polymers prices helped Germany's leading plastics businesses to raise profits last year.For BASF,volumes rose by 1% in 2005,while sales surged by 11% to euro 11.7bn and profitability(Ebitda)rose 26% to exceed euro1.5bn.Of its three plastics divisions,only styrenics performed poorly-due to low demand.