Umicore
Umicore S.A. operates as a materials technology and recycling company worldwide. Its Catalysis segment produces automotive catalysts for gasoline and diesel light and heavy duty vehicles; stationary catalysis for industrial emissions control; and precious metals-based compounds and catalysts for pharmaceutical and fine chemicals industries. The company’s Energy & Surface Technologies segment offers cobalt and specialty materials, electro-optic materials, rechargeable battery materials, and thin film products, as well as electroplating products. Its Recycling segment treats waste streams containing precious and other specialty metals from a range of industrial residues and end-of-life materials. This segment also produces precious metals-based materials for glass production, electric, and electronic applications. The company was formerly known as Union Minière du Haut Katanga and changed its name to Umicore S.A. in 2001. Umicore S.A. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium.
Past deals in Precious Metals
Umicore Specialty Materials Brugge
Acquisition in 2007
Umicore Specialty Materials Brugge research and development, production, and marketing of liquid and solid cobalt and non cobalt-organic.
CP Chemicals Group
Acquisition in 2014
CP Chemicals is a refiner and recycler of cobalt- and nickel-containing secondary materials, such as superalloy scrap, and transforms these into chemicals for the catalyst and petrochemical refining industries. CP Chemicals also recycles rhenium from superalloy turbine blades used in the aviation industry. The business, which employs 40 people, will be integrated in Umicore’s Cobalt & Specialty Materials business unit.
Umicore Materials
Acquisition in 2002
Umicore Materials engages in the development, manufacture, and supply of materials for high vacuum coating applications.
Umicore Technical Materials North America Inc.
Acquisition in 2007
Umicore Technical Materials North America Inc. manufactures and sells silver-based contact materials for light circuits and electric car windows.
Materia - metathesis catalyst business
Acquisition in 2017
Materia - metathesis catalyst business
Anandeya Zinc Oxides Private Ltd.
Acquisition in 2008
Anandeya Zinc Oxides Private Ltd. manufactures zinc oxides and zinc oxide powder.
Ordeg
Acquisition in 2017
Ordeg manufactures automotive emission control catalysts, and environmental and industrial catalysts.
Eurotungstene
Acquisition in 2016
Eurotungstene Poudres SAS develops, manufactures, and markets metal powders, granules, and binders for diamond tool, cemented carbide, refractory material, and metal injection molding sectors. It provides cobalt powders; pre-alloyed powders; additive powders, such as tungsten carbide, tungsten, fused tungsten carbide, bronze, copper, iron, and tin; tungsten and rhenium metal powders; tungsten based mixtures; tungsten copper pseudo alloys; and elemental powders that include deagglomerated tungsten powders, fine nickel powders, tungsten carbide powders, and cobalt powders.
Todini and Co. S.p.a.
Acquisition in 2014
Todini is a trading company and distributor of chemical products specialising in salts and non-ferrous metal oxides such as cobalt, nickel, iodine, selenium, tin, lithium, vanadium, molybdenum, copper, antimony, chromium, bismuth, and tellurium.
Imperial Smelting & Refining Co. of Canada Ltd.
Acquisition in 2008
Imperial Smelting & Refining Co. of Canada Ltd. refines and manufactures precious metals products.
Umicore Autocatalyst Recycling
Acquisition in 2003
Umicore Autocatalyst Recycling provides Commercial Services and Supplies.
Palm Commodities International, Inc.
Acquisition in 2013
Palm Commodities, based in Nashville, Tennessee, generated $ 75 million turnover (metal included) in 2012 and employs 52 people. It transforms nickel and cobalt into plating chemicals and provides an extended customer portfolio, excellence in logistics support and customer service. Palm Commodities will be integrated in the Cobalt & Specialty Materials business unit and will enable Umicore to expand its reach into the important North American plating market where customers serve a variety of industries including automotive, construction and electronics.
Suzhou Alloy Material Factory Co. Ltd.
Acquisition in 2005
Suzhou Alloy Material Factory Co. Ltd. produces and markets precious-metals-containing contact materials.
Umicore Technical Materials Yangzhong
Acquisition in 2006
Umicore Technical Materials Yangzhong manufactures copper, silver, and brass brazing alloys.