The agreement between Kemira and Parcon A/S has been confirmed. Kemira acquires four wholly owned subsidiaries of Parcon A/S: Gropa A/S, Roma A/S, Scantank A/S and SPS A/S. The revenue of the acquired companies totaled to EUR 21 million in 2005 with 37 people employed.
The acquired Parcon companies have a strong sales and distribution network in Denmark, offering process chemicals and services mainly for water treatment and surface cleaning applications to a large number of industrial customers, retailers and households. Main products include caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, hypochlorite, ferric chloride, water glass and ethanol/methanol with a total volume of 80.000 tons in 2005 imported and distributed through strategically located sea terminals and processing lines for small packaging and specialty formulations.
Kemira is the world's leading supplier of inorganic precipitation chemicals. The company offers water treatment and sludge treatment solutions to municipal and private water treatment plants and to industry. The revenue of Kemira’s water treatment chemicals business area will rise to about EUR 670 million and the number of staff to just short of 2,000. Kemira has water treatment chemicals business in over 30 countries.
For more information, please contact:
Kemira Oyj
President Mats Jungar, Kemira Kemwater Business Area
Tel. +358 10 862 1028, GSM +358 40 707 4943
Jan Nobel, Senior Vice President, SBU North Europe
Tel. +46 (0) 42 17 11 17, GSM +46 (0) 737 19 11 17