MOSCOW (MRC) -- Ineos and Solvay have reached an agreement with International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) to acquire the assets being divested by Ineos, reported the company on its site.
This agreement, which follows extensive discussions with the European Commission in the context of the merger control review of INOVYN, is a key step towards completion of the INOVYN project.
ICIG is a privately held industrial company (headquartered in Luxembourg and Germany) that specialises in chemicals and pharmaceuticals, with 23 manufacturing sites across Europe and the United States.
The assets being divested ("the remedy business") consist of:
- the chlorine plants and EDC/ VCM plants at Tessenderlo, Belgium (excluding the chlorotoluenes business that will remain with INEOS);
- the PVC plant at Mazingarbe, France;
- the PVC plant at Beek, the Netherlands;the PVC and VCM plants at Wilhelmshaven, Germany;
and the EDC plants at Runcorn, UK.
In addition, the membrane chlorine plant at Runcorn is to be placed in a 50/ 50 Joint Venture between INOVYN and ICIG. The divestment will also include a portion of the potassium hydroxide (KOH) business at Tessenderlo, with ICIG supplying INOVYN under a toll manufacturing arrangement for the proportion of the KOH business that INOVYN will retain.
It is anticipated that the formation of INOVYN will take place in the second quarter of 2015, upon receipt of all required regulatory approvals and completion of consultation with relevant Ineos employees in scope of the proposed divestment.
Solvay S.A. is a Belgian chemical company founded in 1863, with its head office in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. The company has diversified into two major sectors of activity: chemicals and plastics. Solvay supplies over 1500 products across 35 brands of high-performance polymers пїЅ fluoropolymers, fluoroelastomers, fluorinated fluids, semi-aromatic polyamides, sulfone polymers, aromatic ultra polymers, high-barrier polymers and cross-linked high-performance compounds.
Ineos Group Limited is a privately owned multinational chemicals company consisting of 15 standalone business units, headquartered in Rolle, Switzerland and with its registered office in Lyndhurst, United Kingdom. It is the fourth largest chemicals company in the world measured by revenues (after BASF, Dow Chemical and LyondellBasell) and the largest privately owned company in the United Kingdom.
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