M&A Deal Summary

Arkema Acquires Casda Biomaterials Co.

On February 1, 2012, Arkema acquired chemicals company Casda Biomaterials Co.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Arkema’s 4th transaction in the Chemicals sector.
  • This is Arkema’s 2nd transaction in China.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-02-01
Target Casda Biomaterials Co.
Sector Chemicals
Buyer(s) Arkema
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Casda Biomaterials Co.

Hengshui, China
Casda Biomaterials Co., Ltd. is a chemical industrial enterprise. The major products are sebacic acid, and its related products including refined sebacic acid, dimethyl sebacate ( DMS ), dibutyl sebacate ( DBS) and dioctyl sebacate ( DOS).

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Buyer

Arkema

Colombes, France

Category Company
Founded 2003
Sector Chemicals
Employees21,150
Revenue 9.5B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Arkema is a chemical producer. 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 5 of 25
Sector: Chemicals M&A 4 of 19
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 16
Country: China M&A 2 of 3
Year: 2012 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-02-01 Suzhou HiPro Polymers Co.

Zhangjiagang, China

Suzhou HiPro Polymers Co. Ltd. is a production and marketing of bio-renewable high performance polyamides from natural resource castor oil.

Buy $365M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-04-12 Arkema - Polycarbonate Sheet Business

United States

Arkema - Polycarbonate Sheet Business comprises polycarbonate sheet business which includes the Tuffak line of products used in markets of aerospace, transportation, and heavy equipment.

Sell -