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Largest Chemicals Public Companies in Australia
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Orica, Dyno Nobel, Redox, XRF Scientific and Sea Forest.
 | Orica is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of explosives and chemicals, primarily to the mining industry. It has operations in around 50 countries across six continents. Blasting solutions to the mining industry is the chief earnings engine. Orica has an approximate 28% share of the global commercial explosives market. It provided resins, steel bolts, and other products for underground mining and tunneling though this business is now sold. It also supplies chemicals such as sodium cyanide to the mining industry. | $16 | +16% | $8B | $9B | 1.6x | 9.6x | ||
| Dyno Nobel is a leading global explosives company with operations in Australia, Asia, and the Americas. We estimate its share of the global commercial explosives market at about 15%. Explosives traditionally contributed around 80% of EBIT but with selldown of the fertilizers business, this moves nearer to 100%. | $3 | +36% | $5B | $6B | 1.6x | 8.6x | ||
| Redox is a distributor of chemicals for a diverse range of industries within Australia and New Zealand, North America, and Southeast Asia. It is the largest player in the Australian market, with approximately 5% market share in a very fragmented market. In Southeast Asia and the US it is a smaller player, but with growth ambitions. Redox sources over 5,000 stock keeping units from about 1,000 domestic and global chemical producers. Its customers are from a diverse range of more than 200 industry sub-sectors. About half of annual sales are in the categories of human and animal health and nutrition, and crop production and protection. Other categories include industrial, surface coatings, plastics, rubber and foam, household and personal care, water care, and mining and explosives. | $2 | +55% | $1B | $1B | 1.4x | 14.0x | ||
| XRF Scientific Ltd is engaged in the business of manufacturing and marketing precious metal products, specialized chemicals and instruments for the scientific, analytical and mining industries. It operates through the following segments: Capital Equipment, Precious Metals, and Consumables. The company generates maximum revenue from the Capital Equipment segment that Manufactures sample preparation products and analytical instruments. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from Australia and also has a presence in Canada and Europe. Some of its product includes Electric Fusion Machines; Fusion Flux; Crushing and Pulverising, platinum lab ware and others. | $1 | +1% | $189M | $182M | 4.3x | 15.3x | ||
| Sea Forest Ltd science-based Australian livestock feed additive manufacturer, utilising and replicating the science of methane-abating Asparagopsis seaweed to generate productivity gains for farmers while reducing methane emissions created by ruminant livestock. It is an agri-tech company that supplies sustainably produced, high-quality, climate change-abating products to reduce methane production in agriculture and improve the productivity of livestock farming, one of Australia’s export industries. Its flagship product, SeaFeed, is based on the bioactivities found naturally in Asparagopsis, a red seaweed native to Australia's coastal waters, and is scientifically shown to reduce methane production. | $2 | -- | $94M | $74M | 230.2x | (14.2x) | ||
| Eden Innovations Ltd is engaged in developing clean technology solutions. It develops, manufactures, and markets EdenCrete, a concrete admixture, and OptiBlend, a retrofit dual fuel kit developed for diesel generator sets. The group has two segments, namely the Eden Innovations LLC segment, which includes EdenCrete sales and development, and Optiblend sales, service, and manufacturing; and the Eden Innovations India Pvt Ltd segment, which includes Optiblend sales, service, and manufacturing in India. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Eden Innovations LLC segment. | $0 | -- | $73M | $73M | 42.0x | (22.5x) | ||
| DGL Group Ltd is an investment holding company. The company's segment includes Chemical Manufacturing, Logistics and Environmental Services. It generates maximum revenue from the Chemical Manufacturing segment. The Chemical Manufacturing segment produces its own range of speciality chemicals and undertakes formulation and contract manufacturing on behalf of third parties. | $0 | -13% | $64M | $171M | 0.5x | 5.0x | ||
| Australian Silica Quartz Group Ltd is a minerals exploration company predominantly focused on its high-grade silica sand and hard rock quartz projects, it also maintains some bauxite projects which it continues to review for economic viability in Western Australia. Its project portfolio includes the Quartz Hill Metallurgical Grade Silicon (MGSi) Project; White Springs High Purity Quartz Project; Albany White Hill Silica Sand Project; and Koolyanobbing Metals Project among others. The company operates in one operating segment and one geographical segment, being mineral exploration in Australia. | $0 | -- | $4M | $3M | - | - | ||
| Median | $2 | +16% | $141M | $177M | 1.6x | 8.6x |
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