MatHolding closes the year with record sales of 429 million euros

BarcelonaThe Catalan family group specializing in irrigation systems and the production of phytosanitary products MatHolding closed 2025 with a record turnover of 429 million euros, representing an increase of 6% compared to the previous year. Coinciding with the company's ninetieth anniversary, the industrial group has also improved its ebitda –a financial indicator that shows a company's operating profit before deducting interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization– by 16%: it has increased to 65 million.

Furthermore, in what we have seen of 2026 so far, the company has not suffered the fertilizer crisis stemming from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The group's president, Pau Relat, has stated that for now they are not suffering any impact as a consequence of the war in the Middle East. Thanks to the diversification of its activity across its eighteen centers, they have been able to avoid "geopolitical turbulence".

This year's growth is in line with that of recent years. Specifically, since 2019, the Catalan company based in Parets del Vallès has accumulated an average annual turnover growth of 9%. Ebitda has also grown by an average of 17% in the last six years. MatHolding's businesses are organized into two major divisions: on the one hand, there is the agricultural division, which accounts for 60% of its turnover; on the other, water, which generates the remaining 40% of sales. The company does not specify its net profit, but indicates that it will be slightly above 40 million euros.

The "investment effort"

The president of Feria de Barcelona has also wanted to highlight MatHolding's "investment effort" over the last year. Specifically, in 2025 the company invested a total of 44 million euros in, among other things, improving the industrial capabilities of the company's plants in China and India. Among the investments made, however, the acquisition of the Lleida-based company Altinco stands out, a manufacturer of biSolutions that has expanded the capacity of the group's agricultural division, Cerestia. As indicated by Relat, looking ahead to 2026 they are not ruling out making further integrations as long as a "good opportunity" arises. "In the last ten years we have doubled the company's volume, now the intention is not to take ten years to double it again," assured the group's president.

The company, created in 1935 as Industrias Químicas del Vallés (IQV), has eighteen industrial operations centers in Europe, Asia, and America and has a physical presence in seventeen countries. The multinational currently conducts 70% of its business outside the borders of Spain. For the moment, as Relat points out, they do not foresee any changes in shareholding scale and assures that, as of today, going public would make "no sense".