MOSCOW (MRC) -- APPE, part of bankrupt Spanish PET group La Seda de Barcelona, has been acquired by U.S.-based Plastipak Packaging Inc. for 360 million euros (USD447.7 million), said Plasticsnews.
The Plymouth, Mich.-based packaging company Plastipak submitted a sealed bid for the company along with two other bidders — European PET container maker Petainer and U.S.-based Anchorage investment fund — on Oct. 29.
Barcelona-based PET rigid packaging producer, APPE, has nine plants in Europe, North Africa and Turkey. Plastipak currently has 7 facilities in Europe. None are in Spain and it has no holdings in North Africa.
Plastipak’s winning bid included a gross up of 65 million euros (USD80.8 million) of accounts payable that will be transferred with the business, but will be discounted from the bid, and result in an actual consideration for the business of 295 million euros (USD366.8 million), Plastipak said in a statement.
Plastipak states that the transaction is subject to closing conditions, but is anticipated to complete late in the first quarter of 2015.
Plastipak currently has more than 27 sites in the US, South America and Europe, with over 4,000 employees.
As MRC wrote before, Portugal’s Selenis has finalised the purchase of Artenius Italia, the last remaining PET production company of La Seda de Barcelona (LSB). The PET subsidiary of the Imatosgil Investimentos group of Portuguese entrepreneur Matos Gil, once a major shareholder of La Seda, paid EUR1m for the assets. According to La Seda, Selenis will employ 30 staff at the Italian PET production facility and assume redundancy costs for another 75 workers.
Seda de Barcelona (LSB) is an industrial plastic packaging group operating internationally through its 14 facilities across Europe, Turkey and North Africa. It is the only European producer capable of supplying PET containers in a fully integrated way from raw material feedstock, conversion technology and design, injection and blow moulding up to the delivered finished product, by means of guaranteeing the quality of all its production processes.The PET and recycling division of LSB has four production plants in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey, and two recycling sites in Spain and Italy.
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