Life Agro
Acquisition in 2024
Life Agro is a manufacturing company specializing in the production of advanced chemical solutions for the agricultural sector. Its product portfolio includes adjuvants, biostimulants, microfertilizers, and biological crop protection products, all designed to enhance agricultural productivity and address common farming challenges.
Avient - Distribution Business
Acquisition in 2022
Avient is a manufacturer and distributor of a diverse range of chemical and plastic-based products tailored for designers and processors of plastics. The company operates primarily in two segments: Color, Additives and Inks, and Specialty Engineered Materials. Its extensive product portfolio includes concentrated color and ink blends, plastic resins, and specialized polymer materials, which find applications across various industries such as food packaging, construction, transportation, cosmetics, and healthcare. The Color, Additives, and Inks segment, along with the distribution services, generates the majority of Avient's revenue, with more than half of its total earnings coming from the United States.
USALCO
Private Equity Round in 2020
USALCO, LLC is a manufacturer and distributor of aluminum-based chemical commodities, serving industrial and municipal markets across North America. Established in 1980 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, the company produces a range of products including aluminum chloride, aluminum sulfate, sodium aluminate, and polyaluminum chloride. These chemicals are integral to various applications such as potable and wastewater treatment, phosphorus removal, and industrial processes. USALCO primarily caters to industries such as catalysts, pulp and paper, and water treatment. The company operates multiple production facilities located in Ashtabula, Fairfield, and Gahanna, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; Michigan City, Indiana; and Port Allen, Louisiana, ensuring a broad reach within the market.
Covestro
Acquisition in 2019
Covestro is a German manufacturer of polymer materials serving mobility, construction, electronics, and other industries with polyurethanes, polycarbonates and related specialty chemicals. The company focuses on sustainable materials and processes, delivering solutions that enhance durability, efficiency, and environmental performance. Its portfolio includes a substantial specialty chemicals business centered on coatings and adhesives, complemented by broader product lines in engineering plastics and polyurethanes and polycarbonates. Covestro operates through segments including Performance Materials and Solutions & Specialties, with most revenue generated from Solutions & Specialties. Demand follows cyclical end markets such as automotive, construction, and furniture, while ongoing innovation expands applications across engineering plastics, coatings, and related systems across global markets.
Recochem
Acquisition in 2018
Founded in Canada over six decades ago, Recochem is renowned globally for its quality products and exceptional customer service. It operates consumer and industrial divisions, serving clients worldwide with operations across the Americas, Australia, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The company's reputation is built on innovation, adaptability, and socially responsible practices.
Elekeiroz
Acquisition in 2018
Elekeiroz is a Brazilian chemical producer that designs, manufactures and markets chemicals and petrochemicals across Organic Chemicals and Inorganic Chemicals. The Organic Chemicals segment covers oxo alcohols, phthalic and maleic anhydrides, plasticizers, unsaturated polyester resins, formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde concentrate and fumaric acid, while the Inorganic Chemicals segment includes sulfuric acid and sulfur. The company also supplies hydrogen and carbon dioxide for industrial utilities, and engages in trading, imports and exports, and holdings in other entities. Its products and solutions serve the building and construction, paints and coatings, apparel and footwear, industrial chemistry, films and packaging, crop protection, pulp and paper, and fertilizers sectors. Founded in 1894 and headquartered in Varzea Paulista, Brazil, Elekeiroz provides solvents, acrylates, dryers, emulsifiers, alkyd resins, acetates, ethers, paints and coatings, and other chemical offerings used across construction and manufacturing industries.
Vantage Specialty Chemicals
Acquisition in 2017
Vantage Specialty Chemicals manufactures and supplies naturally-derived specialty chemicals for diverse applications across personal care, food, consumer goods, and industrial markets. With expertise in alkoxylation and esterification processes, the company produces a range of products including fatty acids, glycerin, surfactants, emulsifiers, performance additives, and other organic specialties. Vantage serves various industries globally, leveraging its technical know-how to develop proprietary products and formulations.
Dominion Colour Corporation
Acquisition in 2016
Dominion Colour Corporation specializes in color pigment solutions and preparations tailored for the coatings, plastics, and specialty ink industries on a global scale. The company offers an extensive product portfolio that emphasizes high-performance inorganic and organic pigments. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Dominion Colour Corporation operates advanced manufacturing facilities in Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, it maintains technical sales offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, which facilitates close collaboration with customers to meet their specific needs in pigment innovation.
IGM Resins
Debt Financing in 2015
IGM Resins is a global specialist in the development, manufacture, and supply of radiation-curable materials for the inks and coatings industry. Originating in the late 1990s with supplying raw materials to the European ink and coatings sector, the company has expanded its product portfolio in response to technical customer demands. Today it offers a broad range of UV-curable materials, including photoinitiators, additives, ultraviolet curable monomers, epoxy acrylates, and polyether acrylates, and provides technical services to support the creation of next-generation photoinitiators and related UV raw materials.
Valtris Specialty Chemicals
Acquisition in 2014
Valtris Specialty Chemicals is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and polymer additives that serve a diverse array of industries, including building and construction, packaging, consumer goods, transportation, and oilfield sectors. The company produces essential chemical intermediates, such as chlorinated toluenes and derivatives, which are utilized in coatings, flavor and fragrance, personal care, agrochemicals, and medicinal applications. Valtris's products enhance the performance of plastics, coatings, adhesives, and sealants by providing critical attributes like resiliency, flame retardancy, and ease of processing, thereby meeting the specific needs of its customers across various markets.
American Pacific
Acquisition in 2014
American Pacific Corporation is a specialized chemical manufacturer based in Cedar City, Utah, with an additional office in Las Vegas, Nevada. Founded in 1955, the company primarily produces oxidizers and specialty chemicals for the aerospace, defense, and fire protection industries. It is the sole North American producer of ammonium perchlorate, a critical ingredient in solid rocket motors and missile systems. In addition to ammonium perchlorate, American Pacific manufactures halocarbon-based clean fire extinguishing agents and sodium azide, which is used in pharmaceuticals and other applications. The company is also recognized for its Fine Chemicals segment, providing active pharmaceutical ingredients and advanced intermediates, catering to the stringent requirements of various industries.