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Degussa to Acquire Laporte's Peroxides.


German-based Degussa-Huls (U.S. offices in Ridgefield Park Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods.  and Allendale, N.J.) will acquire U.K.-based Laporte plc, pending regulatory approvals. Laporte's businesses include Aztec Peroxides of Elyria, Ohio “Elyria” redirects here. For the town in Kansas, see Elyria, Kansas.
Elyria is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Lorain CountyGR6.
, a producer of crosslinking and curing agents.

Last fall, Laporte divested several businesses to investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City-based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late-stage leveraged buyouts. It was founded in 1976 by Jerome Kohlberg, Jr., and cousins Henry Kravis and George R.  & Co. of N.Y.C. Those units include compounder AlphaGary Corp., Leominster, Mass., and Southern Clay Products, Gonzales, Texas Gonzales is a city in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,202 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Gonzales County.GR6 Geography
Gonzales is located at  (29.508801, -97.
. They are now part of a new company called Rockwood Specialties based in Princeton, N.J.
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Title Annotation:Degussa-Huls, LaPorte PLC
Comment:Degussa to Acquire Laporte's Peroxides.(Degussa-Huls, LaPorte PLC)
Publication:Plastics Technology
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUGE
Date:Apr 1, 2001
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