M&A Deal Summary

Ambienta Acquires Calucem

On April 18, 2016, private equity firm Ambienta acquired building materials company Calucem from Argus Capital Partners

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Ambienta’s 1st transaction in the Building Materials sector.
  • This is Ambienta’s 4th transaction in Germany.
Investment Fate
  • Calucem was sold to a strategic buyer in 2021 for 150M EUR.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2016-04-18
Target Calucem
Sector Building Materials
Buyer(s) Ambienta
Sellers(s) Argus Capital Partners
Deal Type Secondary Buyout

Target

Calucem

Mannheim, Germany
Calucem is a provider of calcium aluminate cement, supplying high-quality and specialty cement to both the refractory and building chemistry industries. The company's products include low and medium-grade alumina cement and clinker. Calucem was founded in 1925 and is based in Mannheim, Germany.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Ambienta

Milan, Italy

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2007
PE ASSETS 3.0B EUR
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Ambienta is a pan-European middle-market investor focused on acquiring rapidly expanding companies capturing long-term environmental trends. The Firm will consider opportunities throughout Europe and looks to commit €30 to €100 million per transaction. Ambienta was formed in 2007 and is based in Milan, Italy.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 16 of 33
Sector (Building Materials) 1 of 1
Type (Secondary Buyout) 2 of 6
Country (Germany) 4 of 5
Year (2016) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-02-09 SF-Filter

Bachenbulach, Switzerland

SF-Filter provides filter products from original equipment suppliers (OES), as well as its own premium filter products, allowing contract manufacturers and OES to procure all their products directly from the company. Customers also benefit from a specialist sales team with extensive application and consulting expertise backed up by a growing e-commerce platform. Through its role as a value-added distributor, SF-Filter also acts as a key link between customers and OES, thereby delivering additional value beyond its traditional intermediary role. SF-Filter was founded in 1968 and is based in Bachenbulach, Switzerland.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-05-23 Spig

Paruzzaro , Italy

Spig is an engineering and contracting company that operates globally in the closed-loop industrial cooling systems sector, including cooling towers (wet cooling), air-cooled condensers, and air coolers (dry cooling). Its cooling systems are installed in power plants, refineries, petrochemical plants, and other industrial plants where cooling is critical. Spig is based in Paruzzaro , Italy.

Sell €155M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Argus Capital Partners

London, United Kingdom

Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1998
PE ASSETS 433M EUR
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

ARGUS Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. ARGUS does not have any industry preferences and can support a variety of transaction situations. Prospective transaction types include buyouts, growth capital financings, and industry consolidations. The Firm's target investment size is €10 to €40 million. ARGUS Capital was formed in 1998 and is based in London.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 8
Sector (Building Materials) 1 of 1
Type (Secondary Buyout) 3 of 3
Country (Germany) 1 of 1
Year (2016) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-11 SIA IZZI

Riga, Latvia

SIA IZZI is a provider of communication services including internet, mobile and fixed-line telephony.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-02 KaleNobel

Istanbul, Turkey

KaleNobel is a consumer packaging company focused on the manufacture of flexible consumer packaging for ice cream and other applications as well as aseptic cartons.

Sell -