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Largest Chemicals Public Companies in France
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Arkema, Robertet, Explosifs et Produits Chimiques, Exel Industries and Carbios.
 | Arkema SA is a French chemical company formerly known for its large presence in the acrylics market. However, the company has now developed a strong portfolio of speciality materials. Arkema is organized into four segments. Adhesive solutions, advanced materials, and coatings solutions contain the more specialized material businesses. The intermediates segment houses the remaining commodity chemical businesses. Geographically, sales are split fairly equally among Europe, the US, and Asia. | $69 | -5% | $5B | $8B | 0.8x | 5.5x | ||
| Robertet SA is a France based company operates in aromatic products. It is engaged in the development of flavour and perfume additives and ingredients. The activities of the group are functioned through Raw Materials, Perfumery, and Flavourings segments. Geographically operates through the region of France. | $940 | -6% | $2B | $2B | 2.1x | 9.9x | ||
| Explosifs et Produits Chimiques is a France-based company engaged in the provision of products and services in the field of explosives. The company is involved in the activities of Explosives, Drilling and Blasting, Logistics, Demolition, Additives and Innovation. | $326 | +43% | $695M | $810M | 1.4x | 10.5x | ||
| Exel Industries SA is a French company which is active in the business of manufacture of spraying equipment for plant protection for professional, semi-professional and consumer agricultural applications. The company is also engaged in the business of sugar beet harvesting, providing gardening, spraying and watering equipment and industrial precision spraying solutions which cover protection, finishes, lubrication and pollution clean-up. It markets its products under the brand name of Hozelock, Berthoud, Tecnoma, Laser and Cooper Pegler brands, Kremlin rexsons and Sames. The company earns the majority of its revenue from the agricultural equipment business and geographically from Europe region. | $33 | -27% | $223M | $338M | 0.3x | 4.0x | ||
| Carbios SA specializes in developing industrial bio-process for the recycling of plastic waste and the production of the biopolymer. The company creates a new generation of fully biodegradable plastics with a controlled lifespan, a process enabling infinite biorecycling of plastic waste (PET) and a new biological pathway to produce biosourced polymers. It uses Biodegradation; Biorecycling and Bioproduction techniques. | $9 | +2% | $153M | $113M | 715.2x | (4.0x) | ||
| Lhyfe SA is engaged in the production of green hydrogen for mobility and industry. The company designs, builds and exploits its green hydrogen production sites, which have the particularity of being directly connected to the various available renewable energy sources. The Group addresses two priority markets, which are among the emitters of greenhouse gases: the heavy mobility sector (trucks, buses, trains and in the long term, maritime and air transport) as well as (ii) the industry sector, among which chemistry (production of ammonia, methanol, etc.), steel production and glass production are priority targets. | $3 | -28% | $131M | $185M | 16.3x | (5.4x) | ||
| Afyren is a sustainable chemistry company that offers innovative solutions for replacing petroleum-based ingredients with non-food biomass products, in line with a circular, low-carbon economy approach. Using natural microorganisms, Afyren's solutions help produce a family of seven entirely bio-sourced organic acids, as well as one high-value-added fertilizer. | $3 | -13% | $117M | $88M | 26.4x | (8.6x) | ||
| Baikowski SA is engaged in the production of high purity alumina powders and formulations as well as other fine oxides and composites such as spinel, ZTA, YAG and ceria for technical ceramics, precision polishing, crystals, additives and coatings applications. Geographically, it operates through France, the United States, and Japan. | $26 | +9% | $97M | $107M | 1.8x | 10.6x | ||
| Amoeba SA is a France-based company engaged in developing, producing, and commercializing a biological biocide for use in the industrial sector. It develops Biomeba, a green biocide that harnesses the biocidal properties of Willaertia magna, which is used to treat cooling towers. | $1 | -23% | $79M | $88M | 254.4x | (14.4x) | ||
| Vinpai SA is an ingredient tech that offers manufacturers natural alternatives to chemical additives. The Company is an ingredientist that designs, manufactures and markets complementary and ranges of functional ingredients based on algae, plants, minerals and fibers. These ingredients have the function of texturing, stabilizing, preserving, flavoring and/ or enriching the recipes of the food industry, cosmetics, well-being, and health. Vinpai offers manufacturers a complete offer including the supply of functional ingredients, sometimes combined in premix, as well as support for the formulation and the launch of industrial production with the management of the ramp-up with the transition from the lab to the factory. | $4 | +3% | $19M | $24M | 2.0x | (13.7x) | ||
| Encres Dubuit SA specializes in the formulation, manufacture and sale of technical and industrial inks for screen printing, pad printing and digital printing. | $2 | -27% | $7M | $4M | 0.2x | (2.7x) | ||
| Global Bioenergies develops a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation. | $0 | -- | $412K | $1M | - | - | ||
| Median | $7 | -6% | $124M | $110M | 2.0x | (2.7x) |
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