Press Releases

Natrium Capital Limited is delighted to announce it has advised WACH HOLDING LTD (“WACH”), owned jointly by Adenia Partners (“Adenia”) and Founding Directors Abhay Salunkhe & Pradnya Salunkhe, on the sale of their shares in Cresta Paints to Uhuru Investment Partners (“Uhuru”), a middle market private equity firm focused on investing in West Africa. Natrium... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is delighted to announce it has advised Nanocyl SA (“Nanocyl”) on the sale of the business to Birla Carbon USA, Inc (“Birla Carbon”). Natrium Capital acted as sole financial advisor to Nanocyl. Alasdair Nisbet, CEO of Natrium Capital added: “It has been a pleasure working with the Nanocyl management during this transaction.... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is delighted to announce the closing of the merger of Connell, Wilbur-Ellis Holdings, Inc’s (“Wilbur-Ellis”) Asian Speciality Chemical Distribution business with Caldic B.V. (“Caldic”), owned by Advent International (“Advent”). The transaction creates a global leader in life sciences and industrial and specialty chemicals / ingredients markets, with unique positions in high-growth regions and... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is delighted to announce that it co-advised Wilbur-Ellis Holdings, Inc (“Wilbur Ellis”) on the merger of Connell, its Asian Speciality Chemical Distribution business with Caldic B.V. (“Caldic”), owned by Advent International (“Advent”). Advent International and Wilbur-Ellis announce the merger of their life sciences and specialty chemicals solutions businesses to form a leading... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised Solvay S.A (“Solvay”) on the sale of its North American and European amphoteric surfactant business to OpenGate Capital (“OpenGate”). The sale includes the three main production sites supporting the amphoteric product lines located in University Park (Illinois, USA), Genthin (Germany), Halifax (United Kingdom), and a... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised GIL Investments Limited (“GIL”) on the sale of its investee company Iconichem Group Limited (“ICoNiChem”) to the ultimate shareholders of Eti Bakir A.S. (“Eti Bakir”). GIL invested in ICoNiChem in 2016. ICoNiChem manufactures a range of inorganic cobalt and nickel chemicals at its UK manufacturing... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised DOMO Chemicals, who has recently signed an agreement to acquire Solvay’s Performance Polyamides Business in Europe. Deal includes Engineering Plastics operations in France and Poland; High Performance Fibers in France; Polymer and Intermediates operations in France, Spain & Poland. Acquisition will significantly strengthen Domo Chemicals’... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised H.I.G. Capital (‘H.I.G.’) on its recent acquisition of Covestro’s Polyurethane Systems business. The European Polyurethane Systems Business comprises of four systems house facilities in Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain. The company serves a wide range of small- and mid-sized customers across Europe and will... Read more »

Natrium Capital is delighted to announce that Alan Barton has joined as a Senior Advisor. Alan has over 30 years of experience within the chemical industry with particular expertise within the coatings industry having spent 23 years at Rohm and Haas before serving as the Chief Executive Officer at Lehigh Technologies from 2008 until 2018.... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised Elementis plc on the sale of its Surfactants business located in Delden, The Netherlands to Kolb Distribution AG (“Kolb”) for a cash consideration of EUR 39 million, subject to working capital adjustments. As previously announced, after a strategic review the Company decided that Surfactants did... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised Elementis on its recently announced acquisition of One Rock’s SummitReheis personal care business, for an enterprise value of about US$360 million. Elementis plc (“Elementis” or the “Group”) today announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SRLH Holdings, Inc. (“SummitReheis”) from an affiliate... Read more »

Natrium Capital Limited is pleased to announce it has advised Blackstone on its recently announced acquisition of Solvay’s cellulose acetate tow business, for an enterprise value of about €1bn. Blackstone announces that Solvay has reached an agreement to sell its cellulose acetate tow business, Acetow, to private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”). Acetow is... Read more »