Lucas Meyer Cosmetics
Acquisition in 2024
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics S.A.S. is a manufacturer and supplier of innovative ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industry, established in 1999 and headquartered in Champlan, France. The company specializes in developing and marketing a diverse range of products, including active and functional ingredients, as well as cosmetic delivery systems. Its offerings cater to various applications such as anti-aging, detoxifying, hair care, moisturizing, and sun care, among others. In addition to its product range, Lucas Meyer Cosmetics provides extensive scientific, technical, marketing, formulation, and regulatory support services, ensuring that clients receive comprehensive assistance. The company operates through a network of distributors and professional agents across multiple regions, including North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, with additional operations in Canada, Australia, and the United States. Lucas Meyer Cosmetics is a subsidiary of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
BASF-Attapulgite business
Acquisition in 2022
Attapulgite rheology modifiers provide a variety of performance benefits in a variety of liquid systems and are available in a variety of sizes ranging from fine powders to coarse granules.
Beraca
Acquisition in 2021
Beraca is one of the key manufacturers of natural ingredients for the personal care sector offering inter alia fats, oils and botanicals, which are all collected and extracted in an environmentally sustainable production process. Beraca promotes the development of communities, making them part of the Personal Care business on a global scale while simultaneously being strongly committed to sustainability and fair trade processes.
Navigance
Seed Round in 2019
Optimize with intelligence. Boosting chemical process efficiency with data-driven analytics. Chemical producers can maximize plant availability and process efficiency around the clock with Navigance. Advanced plant models, digital tools, and support for continuous processes delivered as Software as a Service that blends data science and chemical expertise. Helping producers optimize with intelligence, confidence and at pace using their process data.
Haelixa
Seed Round in 2018
Haelixa LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Zürich, Switzerland, specializes in DNA-based tracing and tagging technology aimed at enhancing supply chain transparency and integrity. The company develops innovative tracing solutions for various sectors, including the energy industry, where it offers water and oil tracers to monitor the movement of fluids in subsurface environments, as well as groundwater tracing solutions. Beyond the energy sector, Haelixa provides product identification solutions that help prevent counterfeiting and other irregularities, thereby reinforcing supply chain sustainability. Its proprietary platform enables clients to physically mark, trace, and authenticate products from production to retail, ensuring brand protection and proof of authenticity for a wide range of goods, including textiles and precious materials.
X-Chem
Acquisition in 2016
X-Chem, LLC, founded in 1982 and based in Dallas, Texas, specializes in providing innovative solutions for the maintenance, production, completion, and stimulation of oil and gas wells, as well as pipelines. The company offers a diverse range of production chemicals, including emulsion breakers, corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, and various specialty products. It also provides pipeline chemicals such as hydrate inhibitors and microbiocides, along with comprehensive water management solutions and drilling additives. X-Chem operates laboratory services that include advanced analytical techniques for monitoring and problem-solving. With a customer base that spans large multinational corporations to small independent producers, X-Chem serves both onshore and offshore markets through multiple locations across North America. The company is committed to developing environmentally friendly technologies and maintaining a focus on innovation to support its clients' specific needs.
Kel-Tech
Acquisition in 2016
Kel-Tech, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of specialty chemical products tailored for the oil and gas industry. Established in 1983 and headquartered in Midland, Texas, the company provides a diverse range of chemical solutions, including scale inhibitors, paraffin compounds, corrosion inhibitors, surfactants, packer fluids, demulsifiers, biocides, liquid foamers, biocide sticks, and scavengers for oxygen and hydrogen sulfide. Kel-Tech primarily serves the production, field stimulation, and drilling sectors, positioning itself as a key supplier in the Permian Basin and other onshore U.S. regions. The company operates customer service centers in Big Lake and Coahoma, Texas, and has been a subsidiary of Clariant AG since October 2016.
BioSpectrum, Inc. is a company that focuses on discovering and developing products for the life sciences industry, utilizing natural products as the foundation for its offerings. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, the company manufactures a diverse range of ingredients for the cosmetic and personal care industries. Its product line includes items designed to promote beneficial effects on stem cells, as well as mixed compounds for specialized biological applications. Additionally, BioSpectrum produces single and blended extracts derived from marine plants, various plant oils, synergistic powder blends, and floral waters. The company distributes its products across multiple regions, including Asia, Europe, and the Americas, serving a global market since its founding in 2000.
Plastichemix Industries
Acquisition in 2014
Plastichemix Industries produces masterbatches in India. The company offers white, black, additive, and color masterbatches; fillers; compounds; and mono-concentrates. Its products are used for various films, compounding, and blow and injection-molding in the plastic processing industry.
Süd-Chemie
Acquisition in 2011
Süd-Chemie is a global leading specialty chemicals company. The common denominator of all Süd-Chemie products is the efficient use of natural resources to enhance the quality of life for humans and the environment. Key markets served by its Adsorbents Division include the consumer goods, packaging and foundry industries, as well water treatment. Products manufactured by the Catalysts Division offer solutions for the chemical, petrochemical and refinery industries, for energy storage, hydrogen production and off-gas purification. The main focus of Süd-Chemie’s industrial biotechnology activities is on bio-catalysis and bio-refining. The company develops energyefficient processes for the manufacture of biomass-based chemicals and fuels. Süd-Chemie has for instance developed a process which uses enzymatic hydrolysis followed by fermentation to produce second generation cellulosic bio-ethanol from wheat straw or other agricultural production residue.