Clariant Agrees to Market Pigments Business enterprise in $950 Million Deal | Investing News

ZURICH (Reuters) -Clariant has agreed to sell its pigments business to Heubach Team and SK Money Companions in a deal which values the organization at up to 855 million Swiss francs ($951.27 million), the Swiss chemical compounds maker explained on Monday.

Clariant mentioned it would reinvest to become a 20% shareholder in the new merged company, which employs 3,000 folks and has annual sales of about 900 million euros ($1.09 billion).

The offer represented an business benefit of 805 to 855 million francs, dependent on an get paid-out payment centered on the 2021 economical functionality of the company which can make pigments and dyes utilized in the automotive, plastics and other industries.

Clariant mentioned the sale, which is predicted to be finished in the initial 50 percent of 2022, represented a multiple of 10.7 to 11.4 periods the standalone EBITDA of the pigments enterprise in the 12 months to April 2021.

The sale is the final stage in the divestment and repositioning programme introduced by Basel-centered Clariant in July 2018, claimed Main Govt Conrad Keijzer.

The organization has by now divested its health care packaging and masterbatches enterprise as it seeks to develop a lot quicker than its markets, and increase earnings margins.

“Now our emphasis can completely be on rising revenue and profitability of our main company parts: Care Chemicals, Catalysis and Purely natural Methods,” Keijzer stated.

In addition to funding the reinvestment, proceeds will go into funding organic and natural development of Clariant, as perfectly as strengthening the firm’s balance sheet.

($1 = .8988 Swiss francs)

(Reporting by John Revill, enhancing by Silke Koltrowitz)

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