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Specialty Chemicals Ketjen Pricing Impact measures management's reported dollar effect of pricing changes on Ketjen net sales.
Albemarle attributed $0.7 million of higher 2025 Ketjen net sales to increased pricing impacts.
Why it matters
The pricing bridge helps distinguish realized price contribution from catalyst shipment growth and currency.
Investor caution
This is an issuer-attributed MD&A bridge and should not be treated as a standardized catalyst price index.
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Part of the Specialty Chemicals Operating Economics
Connect segment net sales, year-over-year sales growth, management-attributed pricing and volume effects, and adjusted EBITDA across Energy Storage, Specialties, and Ketjen.
How the model fits together
- Energy Storage price, volume, and profitability: Energy Storage net sales and sales growth connect the segment's top-line outcome with management-attributed pricing and volume effects, while adjusted EBITDA shows how those drivers translated into profitability. Albemarle identified unfavorable pricing primarily in battery- and tech-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide sold under index-referenced and variable-priced contracts, so the bridge should not be treated as a standardized lithium benchmark.
- Ketjen price, volume, and profitability: Ketjen net sales and sales growth combine higher volume, primarily in FCC, with a small favorable pricing contribution, while adjusted EBITDA adds catalyst-segment profitability. Equity earnings, currency, and other operating factors also affected results, so volume and pricing are not a complete earnings reconciliation.
- Specialties price, volume, and profitability: Specialties net sales and sales growth combine higher volume with unfavorable pricing in lithium specialties that was partially offset by favorable pricing in bromine and derivatives. Adjusted EBITDA adds profitability context while preserving the segment's mixed-chemistry exposure and issuer-defined non-GAAP boundary.
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