Former Specialty Silicones Business of Clariant Will Operate as Stand Alone Firm After Being Acquired by GenNx360 Capital Partners

03-09-2009

GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on industrial business-to-business companies, announced that it has acquired the Specialty Silicones business of Clariant. The new Gainesville, Florida-based business will be known as SiVance LLC. SiVance starts out supplying silicone ...

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23-03-2009

Clariant has appointed Mathias Lütgendorf as a member of its Executive Committee, effective April 1, 2009. He will assume responsibility for the Textile, Leather and Paper Businesses as well as for the company's Asian region. Peter Brandenberg, currently head of the Textile, Leather and Paper ...

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28-08-2008

Clariant has appointed Andy Piers as Head of Group Technology effective September 1, 2008. He will be a member of the Board of Management. Andy Piers, a British and Zambian citizen holds a PhD in Chemistry and Engineering from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He worked at inorganic ...

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Separation from Clariant Complete, Headquarter in Germany

06-07-2006

The organization formerly known as the Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals business of Clariant is now Archimica -- the world's leading global fine chemicals business focused solely on commercialization solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The new business is comprised of virtually all ...

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07-11-2005

The Board of Directors of Clariant Ltd announced after its meeting the appointment of three key leadership positions, including designating Roland Loesser as new chairman and Jan Secher as new chief executive. Mr. Loesser, Clariant's current chief executive, will assume his new role ...

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28-06-2005

As part of its program "Sustainable Bio-production," Germany's Federal Ministry of Education & Research has awarded a consortium a grant to study the feasibility of oxynitrilase technologies as a more efficient method to manufacture chiral building block chemicals currently required by the ...

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14-10-2004

The Pigments & Additives Division inaugurated its new production plant for diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments at Clariant's site in Frankfurt-Höchst, Germany. The process includes the synthesis of pigments as well as the subsequent steps, such as finishing, filtration, drying, blending ...

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04-11-2003

Clariant announced the sale of its Cellulose Ethers business unit to Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. for Euro 241 million (around 370 million CHF). The transaction marks the first milestone in the asset sales program that Clariant has made public at its half-year results conference. The ...

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