M&A Deal Summary

Arkema Acquires Bostik

On February 2, 2015, Arkema acquired chemicals company Bostik

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Arkema’s 6th transaction in the Chemicals sector.
  • This is Arkema’s 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Arkema’s 1st transaction in Wisconsin.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2015-02-02
Target Bostik
Sector Chemicals
Buyer(s) Arkema
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Bostik

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
Bostik, Inc. is an adhesive specialist in industrial manufacturing, construction and consumer markets. Bostik develops innovative adhesive solutions that are smarter and more adaptive to the forces that shape our daily lives.

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Buyer

Arkema

Colombes, France
Category Company
Founded 2003
Sector Chemicals
Employees21,100
Revenue 9.5B EUR (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Arkema is a chemical producer company. Arkema organized its activities into 3 complementary business segments: High Performance Materials: Technical polymers (Specialty polyamides and Fluoropolymers), Filtration and Adsorption (CECA), Organic Peroxydes, Specialty Adhesives (Bostik). Industrial Specialties: Thiochemicals, Fluorochemicals, PMMA (Altuglas International), Hydrogen Peroxides. Coating Solutions: Acrylics, Coating resins, Photocure resins (Sartomer) Rheology Additives (Coatex). Arkema was founded in 2003 and is based in Colombes, France.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 25
Sector (Chemicals) 6 of 19
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 4 of 16
State (Wisconsin) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 4 of 12
Year (2015) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-01-01 PMC Beijing Chemicals

Beijing, China

PMC Beijing Chemicals Co., Ltd. is a worldwide tin stabilizer, organometallic, and organophosphine specialty chemical business.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-03-02 OXIDO s.r.l.

Anagni, Italy

OXIDO s.r.l. is a producer and commercializes organic and inorganic peroxides.

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