22.06.2021 • News
Distrupol Takes Lautrup Chemicals
Distrupol, a UK-based distributor of thermoplastics and elastomers, has acquired Lautrup Chemicals, a Danish polymers distributor. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Chemical Distribution
Ensuring Value and Efficiency in the Supply Chain
In his interview with CHEManager, Hidde van der Wal, CEO of chemical distributor Barentz, talks about the company’s performance in 2020 and latest strategic developments.
02.06.2021 • News
Harke Group and BOAI NKY Expand Cooperation through Eastern Europe
Harke Pharma has expanded its distribution partnership through Eastern Europe with BOAI NKY, China’s largest PVP and PVPP manufacturer.
Mergers & Acquisitions Are an Integral Strategic Component
In the drive to reach growth objectives, or to maintain and enhance “critical mass”, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) has been a theme for the chemical distribution industry for years. The industry leaders (by size and geographic reach) were all built through a series of such transactions. The practice is further trickling down to the smaller and mid-sized company layer of the sector, and more distributors espouse external growth options.
25.05.2021 • News
Pilar Castellanos Pineda Appointed as Managing Director of IMCD Colombia
Speciality chemicals and ingredients distributor IMCD has appointed Pilar Castellanos Pineda as Managing Director of IMCD Colombia effective May 25, 2021.
M&A Activity Will Continue, No Doubt!
Analysis of the mergers & acquisitions activity in chemical distribution under the impression of the pandemic situation and how it might develop going forward.
08.03.2021 • News
Barentz Boosts European and US Presence
Dutch distributor Barentz has acquired a majority stake in the Noack Group, extending its activities in the Central/East European region and gaining a complementary portfolio of animal nutrition ingredients.
23.09.2020 • News
Oqema Sets up new Distribution Partnership with Solvay
Global chemical company Solvay and specialty chemicals distributor Oqema have entered into a distribution partnership for phenol and phenol derivatives. The partnership covers Solvay’s products hydroquinone, methylhydroquinone, TBC and PTZ for the monomers market, alongside other phenol derivatives for the agrochemicals and pharma markets.
10.02.2020 • News
HSH Chemie Expands Activities in the Baltics
Hamburg, Germany-headquartered HSH Chemie has founded a new subsidiary in Riga, Latvia by converting its former representative office, established already 3 years ago.
18.10.2019 • News
Azelis to Buy Turkey’s Ekin Kimya
In its fifth acquisition so far this year, Azelis has agreed to buy Ekin Kimya, a leading Turkish specialty chemicals distributor active in the pharmaceuticals, food ingredients and laboratory chemicals segments. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the next three months, were not disclosed.
05.08.2019 • News
Brenntag Acquires in South Africa and Taiwan
26.07.2019 • News
Oqema is growing in Switzerland
22.07.2019 • News
Oqema repositions itself in France
Chemical Distribution 4.0
“68% of chemicals worth $76 billion will be sold online within the next five years.” This was the message from leading market research institutes and consultants in 2000, at the start of the new millennium.
E-Commerce Platforms in the Chemical Industry
Digitalization is a very important topic not only in the chemical industry as a whole, but also in chemical distribution.
Who is the Future “Chemazon”?
The traditional business model of chemical distributors is currently fundamentally challenged on one side by digitally enabled activities from principals, logistics providers, customers, start-ups, larger chemical distributors or combinations of smaller players, who try their own online channels, and on the other side by general e-retailers like Alibaba or Amazon, who explore to enter also into chemical & material categories.
