M&A Deal Summary

Lonza Acquires Zelam

On August 3, 2015, Lonza acquired chemicals company Zelam

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Lonza’s 2nd transaction in the Chemicals sector.
  • This is Lonza’s 1st transaction in New Zealand.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2015-08-03
Target Zelam
Sector Chemicals
Buyer(s) Lonza
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Zelam

New Plymouth, New Zealand
Zelam Ltd. is a research-focused chemical company based in New Zealand (NZ), which develops and manufactures products for crop protection, specializing in fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, foliar nutrients and additives.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Lonza

Basel, Switzerland

Category Company
Founded 1897
Sector Life Science
Employees18,000
Revenue 6.6B CHF (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Lonza plant located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Lonza plant located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Lonza is a global company that focuses on the life sciences sector, offering products and services for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and nutrition markets. Their portfolio spans across biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing, consumer health, nutrition, microbial control solutions, and custom manufacturing of specialty chemicals. Lonza was founded in 1897 and is based in Basel, Switzerland.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 12
Sector: Chemicals M&A 2 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 10
Country: New Zealand M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2015 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-10-20 Arch Chemicals

Norwalk, Connecticut, United States

Arch Chemicals, Inc. is a provider of chemicals products for killing bacteria and fungi.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-06-30 Triangle Research Labs

North Carolina, United States

Triangle Research Labs LLC is a hepatocyte provider with products supporting in vitro evaluation of metabolism, drug-drug interactions, drug transporter activity, toxicity of drug candidates and other applications.

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