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Heimerle + Meule Acquires Cookson Precious Metals

On April 12, 2013, Heimerle + Meule acquired metals/mining company Cookson Precious Metals from Vesuvius

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Heimerle + Meule’s 1st transaction in the Metals/Mining sector.
  • This is Heimerle + Meule’s 1st transaction in the United Kingdom.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2013-04-12
Target Cookson Precious Metals
Sector Metals/Mining
Buyer(s) Heimerle + Meule
Sellers(s) Vesuvius
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Cookson Precious Metals

Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cookson Precious Metals Ltd. is a supplier for the European jewellery industry and maintains a presence in five countries with its subsidiaries in France (Cookson-CLAL), Spain (Sempsa), the UK (Cookson Precious Metals), the Netherlands (Cookson Drijfhout), and Portugal (Koutadly). The company also operates a major precious metals recycling business as well as catalogue and online businesses under the names of “Cooksongold” and “Cookson-CLAL”.

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Buyer

Heimerle + Meule

Pforzheim, Germany
Category Company
Sector Metals/Mining
Employees700
DESCRIPTION

Heimerle + Meule GmbH is one of the largest precious metal processors in Europe. Heimerle + Meule, the customer has always been and still remains top priority. Dependable, trustworthy and competent: these attributes are what distinguish us as a reliable partner.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Metals/Mining M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United Kingdom M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Vesuvius

London, United Kingdom
Category Company
Founded 1916
Sector Building Materials
Employees11,071
Revenue 1.8B GBP (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Vesuvius is a provider of engineering services and solutions to its customers worldwide, principally serving the steel and foundry industries. Company develop and manufacture high-technology products and solutions for supply to the steel and casting industries, operating a profitable, flexible, cash generative and growth-building business model. Vesuvius was founded in 1916 and is based in London, England.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Metals/Mining M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: United Kingdom M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-02-22 Cookson Group - Ceramic Fibres Business

United Kingdom

Cookson Group - Ceramic Fibres Business consist of 2 productions sites, one in Poland and the other in Tennessee, USA, both of which provide high temperature insulating fibre focussed towards the iron and steel markets.

Sell $21M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-08-18 Ecil Met Tec

Piedade, Brazil

Ecil Met Tec is a manufacturer and supplier of consumable thermocouples used to measure, amongst other things, the temperature of molten metal in the steel making process. With operations in Piedade, near Sao Paulo in Brazil, and Cleveland, USA, Ecil Met Tec has 550 staff.

Buy R$86M
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