ASK Chemicals Group completes acquisition of the industrial resin business

ASK Chemicals Group has completed the acquisition of the industrial resins business from SI Group (New York, USA). ASK Chemicals Group, headquartered in Hilden near Düsseldorf (Germany), is

strengthening its position as a global supplier of high-performance industrial resins.ASK Chemicals has purchased SI Group’s industrial resins business and associated manufacturing sites in Rio Claro (Brazil), Ranjangaon (India) and Johannesburg (South

Africa), as well as licensed technology and concluded multiple tolling agreements worldwide. With this acquisition ASK Chemicals is reinforcing its position in the foundry market and at the same time taking a first and substantial step in building a phenolic industrial resins

business, an attractive market with promising growth opportunities. The foundry related business will be integrated into ASK Chemicals’ foundry division, which is one of the world’s largest and most innovative suppliers of foundry chemicals and consumables. In Brazil, the acquisition does not include any foundry business. The remainder, and largest part of the business being acquired, serves a wide range of attractive and growing markets and applications such as friction, abrasives, refractory, paper impregnation, insulation and composites.

“We are very pleased to join forces in the field of high-performance resins and to enter into new markets for ASK Chemicals Group”, said Frank Coenen, Chief Execuive Officer of ASK Chemicals Group.