Balchem Corporation Acquires Chemogas NV
May 2, 2019
Balchem Corporation has agreed to acquire Chemogas NV, a Belgium-based provider of packaged specialty gases (notably ethylene oxide) and related services, from majority shareholder Gilde Equity Management. The acquisition expands Balchem's global footprint in packaged ethylene oxide and creates a worldwide network of facilities to better serve medical device sterilization and other industrial customers.
- Buyers
- Balchem Corporation
- Targets
- Chemogas NV
- Sellers
- Gilde Equity Management
- Industry
- Industrial Services
- Location
- Flemish Brabant, Belgium
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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