15-02-2013

Clariant announced full-year sales 2012 from continuing operations of CHF 6.038 billion compared to CHF 5.571 billion in the previous-year period. This corresponds to an increase of 8% in local currencies and in Swiss francs. The 8% increase was driven by the acquisition of Süd-Chemie, while ...

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Regional distribution partnership for the Industrial & Consumer Specialty Business Unit

16-11-2012

DKSH’s Business Unit Performance Materials, a specialty chemicals distributor, has started a strategic partnership with Clariant. Under a distribution agreement with Clariant’s Business Unit Industrial & Consumer Specialties, DKSH will market their consumer care, and paints and coatings ...

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06-10-2011

Clariant announced the sale of its Polysilazane coatings business including the production site in India to AZ Electronic Materials (AZ) for a consideration of approximately EUR 4 million. Under the terms of the agreement, Clariant retains the exclusive right to develop and use Polysilazanes ...

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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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06-04-2006

Clariant has acquired KiON Corporation, a U.S. firm located in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania. KiON, by reason of its patented manufacturing process, is the world's only supplier of cost competitive polysilazane resins and composites thereof. This acquisition is a major milestone in ...

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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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07-08-2003

Roland Lösser, Clariant's new chief executive, announced today a wide-reaching corporate transformation program that will significantly reduce debt, cut costs, and re-establish the group as one of the leading specialty chemicals companies. The program, which is the result of an extensive ...

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