Keyword: Advent International

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Axiall Rejects $1.4 Billion Westlake Offer

03.02.2016 - North America’s largest producer of vinyl building products Axiall, based at Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has rejected a $1.4 billion bid from rival US vinyls producer Westlake...

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Kraton, Advent, Vie for Arizona Chemical

28.09.2015 - Kraton Performance Polymers has offered to acquire pine chemicals producer Arizona Chemical Company in a deal that could exceed $1.2 billion including debt, according to news...

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Westlake Closes Purchase of PVC Maker Vinnolit

01.08.2014 - US-based Westlake Chemical has completed its acquisition of German PVC producer Vinnolit from private equity investor Advent International, making it by its own calculation world's...

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Westlake to Acquire German PVC Producer Vinnolit

29.05.2014 - Private equity investor Advent International has agreed to sell German PVC producer Vinnolit to Houston, Texas-based US petrochemical producer Westlake for €490 million ($668...

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Oman Oil Company acquires Oxea from Advent International

25.11.2013 - Advent International announced its divestment from Oxea, one of the largest global manufacturers of oxo chemicals. Oman Oil Company (OOC), a commercial company wholly owned by the...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

75 Years of Oxo Synthesis

25.11.2013 - Kohlechemie AG, a company collectively founded by a consortium of mining companies in 1927, was renamed Ruhrchemie in April 1928, and began production of fertilizer in 1929 at its...