Laporte PLC Sells AlphaGary, Southern Clay.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., LP (KKR KKR Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker (method) KKR Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts & Co. KKR Kalkara (postal locality, Malta) KKR Kramers-Kronig Relations KKR Komarappa Gounder Ramalingam (hospital in India) ), a leading private investment firm with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , London, and Menlo Park, Calif., has agreed to buy major divisions of U.K.-based Laporte plc. The acquisition would include Laporte's Pigments & Additives, Formulated Products and Compounds, and Electronic divisions. Laporte is the world's second largest supplier of iron oxide pigments for plastics and other uses. They are manufactured in St. Louis. Laporte is also a global leader in clay-based additives for plastics and other industries. It owns Southern Clay Products, Inc. of Gonzales, Texas. Laporte's Compounds div. includes AlphaGary Corp. of Pineville, N.C., a specialty compounder of PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. and TPE TPE Thermoplastic Elastomer TPE Terminal de Paiement Electronique (French) TPE Total Power Exchange TPE Twisted Pair Ethernet TPE Tampines Expressway (Singapore) TPE Therapeutic Plasma Exchange materials for data-transmission cables and low-smoke electrical insulation, as well as closure seals for beverage containers and disposable medical components. Laporte's Specialty Organics group, which includes Aztec Peroxides, Inc. of Elyria, Ohio, is not part of the planned sale. |
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