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Rockwood Holdings Acquires Chemetall

On April 19, 2004, Rockwood Holdings acquired chemicals company Chemetall from Dynamit Nobel AG

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Rockwood Holdings’ 2nd transaction in the Chemicals sector.
  • This is Rockwood Holdings’ 2nd transaction in Germany.
Investment Fate
  • Chemetall was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2014.
  • Chemetall was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2016 for 3.2B USD.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-04-19
Target Chemetall
Sector Chemicals
Buyer(s) Rockwood Holdings
Sellers(s) Dynamit Nobel AG
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Chemetall

Frankfurt, Germany
Chemetall GmbH is a provider of chemicals and processes for surface treatment of metals and other substrates, Lithium compounds and other specialty chemicals.

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Buyer

Rockwood Holdings

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Category Company
Founded 2000
Sector Chemicals
Employees3,500
Revenue 3.7B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION

Rockwood Holdings, Inc. is a provider of specialty chemicals, pigments, additives and advanced materials to specialized manufacturing and technology companies throughout the world. The company is a global producer for many of its products including lithium compounds and chemicals, surface treatment chemicals, TiO2 pigments for synthetic fibers and ceramic hip joints.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Chemicals M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: Germany M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2004 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-04-19 Dynamit Nobel AG

Troisdorf, Germany

Dynamit Nobel AG manufactures precision thermoplastic and duroplastic moldings to automotive and electrical engineering industries.

Buy €2.3B
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-01-02 Rockwood Holdings - Electronics Business

France

Rockwood's French electronic chemicals business company.

Sell $315M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Dynamit Nobel AG

Troisdorf, Germany
Category Company
Founded 2006
Sector Chemicals
DESCRIPTION

Dynamit Nobel AG manufactures precision thermoplastic and duroplastic moldings to automotive and electrical engineering industries.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector: Chemicals M&A 3 of 3
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 3
Country: Germany M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2004 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2001-10-01 Menzolit-Fibron

Bretten, Germany

Menzolit has been developing formulations for high quality Sheet Moulding Compound and Bulk Moulding Compound compounds designed.

Sell -
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