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Alfa Laval Acquires Desmet

On March 31, 2022, Alfa Laval acquired oil/gas exploration company Desmet from Desmet Ballestra

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Alfa Laval’s 1st transaction in the Oil/Gas Exploration sector.
  • This is Alfa Laval’s 1st transaction in Belgium.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2022-03-31
Target Desmet
Sector Oil/Gas Exploration
Buyer(s) Alfa Laval
Sellers(s) Desmet Ballestra
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Desmet

Brussels, Belgium
Desmet engages in edible oil and biofuel processing in Europe, India, Southeast Asia, North America, and Latin America. The operational units and brands of Rosedowns and Stolz are included in the transaction.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Alfa Laval

Lund, Sweden
Category Company
Founded 1883
Sector Machinery
Employees22,496
Revenue 67.0B SEK (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Alfa Laval is a provider of specialised process engineering solutions, equipment and services in the areas of separation, heat transfer and fluid handling. Alfa Laval was founded in 1883 and is based in Lund, Sweden.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 14
Sector: Oil/Gas Exploration M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 2
Country: Belgium M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-07-08 Marine Performance Systems

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Marine Performance Systems is a Danish-Dutch maritime technology and marine engineering company. Marine Performance Systems was founded in 2018 and headquartered in the port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands with a regional office is located in Hellerup, Denmark.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-06-16 Scanjet

Gothenburg, Sweden

Scanjet is a global supplier of tank cleaning equipment and solutions for marine, offshore and industrial applications. The company designs and produces a range of fixed and portable tank cleaning equipment, marine protection systems, high-level overfill alarms, vapour emission control systems, tank level gauging equipment, and Inert Gas system. Scanjet was formed in 1993 and is based in Gothenburg, , Sweden.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Desmet Ballestra

Graz, Austria
Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Engineering
DESCRIPTION

Desmet Ballestra is specialised in the fields of engineering and supply of plant and equipment for the edible oil industry, the detergent-surfactants and relating chemical industry, the oleochemical and biodiesel industry. The Group is the result of the merge in 2006 of 2 EP leaders in their respective fields: Desmet and Ballestra. Desmet Ballestra was founded in 1987 and is based in Graz, Austria.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Oil/Gas Exploration M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Belgium M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2022 M&A 1 of 1
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