Digital Momentum and Strategic Discipline
Sika continued to advance its strategic agenda in 2025, investing in accelerating innovation and digital transformation, building on its leading position across all markets.
Strategy 2028 is designed to deliver sustainable and profitable growth and outperformance against peers. In 2025, Sika gained further momentum in a challenging market environment, with digitalization playing a defining role by accelerating how Sika develops solutions, supports customers, and collaborates internally.
Fast Forward – announced in October 2025 – further reinforces Sika's ability to gain share by focusing on giving customers more value-add solutions and efficiently delivering them through any channel. With the program, Sika advances its strategic agenda by investing in accelerating innovation and digital transformation, building on its leading position across all markets.
Sika’s strategic progress over the year was visible across each of its four strategic pillars: Market Penetration, Innovation & Sustainability, Acquisitions, and People & Culture.
MARKET PENETRATION
Deepening reach and expanding access
Sika continued to strengthen market positioning through channel expansion, cross-selling, and a greater focus on customer proximity. Improving access to solutions tailored to local needs remained central to gaining market share, supported by efficient regional production and strong technical expertise.
In the Asia/Pacific region, the rollout of Sika’s distribution model in Southeast Asia and India marked an important milestone, expanding local presence and enhancing digital engagement and access to local contractors, tradespeople, and other distribution customers.
Sika continued to accelerate development across growth segments, many of them requiring high-performance solutions. Data centers, for example, are showing continued strong demand for superior, durable roofing systems, low-maintenance flooring, reliable waterproofing, and low-carbon concrete solutions, all of which provide reassurance to data center owners. On page 58, our feature story delves into the diverse solutions Sika provides to this strongly growing segment.
Innovation & Sustainability
Strengthening digital capabilities and supporting lower-carbon solutions
Innovation advanced on multiple fronts in 2025, supported by Sika’s 16 global technology centers and more than 100 local and regional R&D facilities. These teams work closely with regional markets to accelerate development, improve resource efficiency, and respond to evolving technical and regulatory requirements.
Nuage, Sika’s global digital R&D lab, continued to transform research processes by establishing a platform for sharing formulation knowledge, leveraging AI-driven insights, and enabling faster collaboration across regions. This approach shortens development cycles and improves alignment between customer needs and technical solutions.
Sika partnered with Giatec™ Scientific Inc., a global leader in digital concrete technology platforms specializing in smart testing and AI-driven solutions. This move strengthens the company’s commitment to digital transformation and sustainability in the concrete industry. This aligns with Sika’s strategy to enhance its digital ecosystem and further accelerate the adoption of smart technologies.
Sika introduced the Sika® Carbon Compass, an automated platform providing standardized and independently verified information on product carbon footprints. The tool supports a more transparent product selection and provides customers with quicker access to necessary documentation to achieve green building certifications.
Acquisitions
Building stronger platforms in a fragmented market
As the largest player in a highly fragmented market, Sika will continue to invest behind organic growth and M&A. Bolt-on acquisitions are an important component of Strategy 2028, helping Sika to access new distribution channels, grow its local manufacturing presence, and expand market reach.
In 2025, Sika completed six bolt-on acquisitions and announced terms on a seventh, further broadening its portfolio and reinforcing its position in key regions. Among them was Gulf Seal in Saudi Arabia, which complemented Sika’s waterproofing offering and improved access to major development projects and distribution channels across the Middle East.
The integration of MBCC was completed during the year. Synergy expectations were upgraded by CHF 20 million and annual synergies will now reach CHF 200–220 million by end of 2026. The acquisition is highly accretive. Less than three years after closing, MBCC EBITDA margins are already at around 20%, up around 500 basis points versus prior to becoming part of the Group.
People & Culture
Strengthening skills, and digital readiness
People and culture continue to underpin Sika’s long-term success. In 2025, the company focused on feedback from the 2024 employee survey, with an emphasis on improving information flow and employee capability development across regions. The next global survey will be conducted in 2026.
A major achievement in 2025 was the onboarding of almost all plant and warehouse employees worldwide to Sika’s digital systems. By providing these employees with a digital identity, Sika improved access to communication channels, incident management tools, and learning platforms, strengthening company-wide inclusion. In addition, targeted upskilling efforts for both operational and office- based employees supported the adoption of new digital workflows. These tools help build the capabilities needed for Sika’s next phase of strategic growth.
The progress achieved in 2025 demonstrates that Strategy 2028 remains firmly on track. With its world‑class team and value‑adding product portfolio — supported by strategic investments in digital channels, enhanced connectivity, and accelerated innovation — Sika is strongly positioned to continue outperforming its markets and peers, while creating long‑term value for all stakeholders.