BetzDearborn water treatment business sale finalized.Hercules Inc., Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. , USA, has completed the sale of the Water Treatment business of its BetzDearborn Division to GE Specialty Materials, a unit of General Electric Company, in Morgantown, West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , The Paper Process Chemicals business, which today represents one-third of the BetzDearborn Company purchased by Hercules in 1998, will remain with Hercules and has been completely integrated into the Company's Pulp pulp: see paper. and Paper Division, Hercules will have an agreement with GE to distribute and service BetzDearborn's water treatment products to the pulp and paper industry The global pulp and paper industry is dominated by North American (United States, Canada), northern European (Finland, Sweden) and East Asian countries (such as Japan). Australasia and Latin America also have significant pulp and paper industries. . The purchase price was US$ 1.8 billion. |
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