04-Oct-21
Kraton Corporation, a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value bio-based products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, has announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which DL Chemical Co., Ltd. (formerly Daelim), will acquire 100% of Kraton in an all-cash transaction implying an enterprise value of approximately $2.5 billion.
Kraton总裁兼首席执行官Kevin M. Fogarty表示，他认为DL Chemical具有行业的存在和资源，可以继续在全球范围内支持Kraton业务的增长。”
“我们相信合并后公司的规模和实力也将使我们的客户和员工受益，因为它将扩大克拉顿的全球影响力，同时创建一个强大的平台，以进一步支持对现有的创新管道的投资，并为可持续产品提供进一步的扩展，克拉顿董事会主席丹·史密斯（Dan F. Smith）说。
DL Chemical副主席兼首席执行官Sang Woo Kim表示：“我们对Kraton的专业聚合物和基于生物的化学商业非常感兴趣，这种组合将使我们能够为客户提供更多的创新产品，同时，而同时也可以为客户提供更多的创新产品。增加了在全球70多个国家 /地区提供各种最终市场的能力。”
关于克拉顿
Kraton Corporation（NYSE“ KRA”）是全球领先的专业聚合物和可再生资源的高价值性能产品。Kraton的聚合物用于广泛的应用，包括胶粘剂，涂料，消费者和个人护理产品，密封剂和润滑剂，以及医疗，包装，汽车，铺路和屋顶产品。作为Pine Chemicals行业中最大的全球提供商，该公司的基于Pine的特色产品被销售成粘合剂，道路，建筑和轮胎市场，并在包括燃料添加剂，油田化学品的市场中生产并出售广泛的性能化学品，涂料，金属加工液和润滑剂，墨水和采矿。克拉顿（Kraton）将其产品提供给全球70多个国家 /地区的各种客户群。
About DL Chemical
DL化学是一个领先的石化公司智慧h more than 46 years of operational experience and unique technological know-how. Based in Korea, the company was the first petrochemical firm in the country to commercialize metallocene polyethylene and polybutene, as well as the first to export polybutene technology to the United States. DL Chemical is the world's largest producer of polybutene with a production capacity of 200 KTA year. DL Chemical has commercialized BOCD (Broad Orthogonal Co-Monomer Distribution) polyethylene and EPO (Ethylene-Propylene Oligomer) for only the second time worldwide. In March 2020, DL Chemical (as a part of Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd. prior to the split-off of DL Chemical) acquired Kraton's CariflexTM business for $530 million in cash.
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