A-Gas Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

FMC is a pure-play global crop protection company with a fairly balanced product portfolio across geographies and crop exposure. Through acquisitions, FMC is now one of the five largest patented crop protection companies and focuses on the development of new products, including biologicals, through its research and development pipeline.

Frasle Mobility SA is engaged in manufacturing, marketing and import of components for brakes, couplings, transmissions, friction materials, resin-based products, auto parts, plastic artifacts and their derivative products. The company offers brake linings and pads for commercial vehicles; disc brake pads for hydraulic breaks for passenger and utility vehicles; brake linings and shoes for light vehicles; clutch facings for automotive vehicles; and motorcycle pads and shoes. It also provides aircraft pads; refitters; and pads and shoes for trains and subways, as well as universal flat sheets, molded and woven linings, and flexible molded blocks for industrial applications.

Elementis PLC manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and coatings. The company has two operating segments: Coatings and Personal Care. The Personal Care segment is engaged in the production of rheological modifiers and compounded products, including active ingredients for AP deodorants, for supply to personal care manufacturers. The company generates the majority of its revenue from the coating segment, which generates the majority of revenue from the production of rheological modifiers and additives for decorative and industrial coatings. Geographically, the company generates revenue from North America, the United Kingdom, the rest of Europe, and the Rest of the world.

Suzhou Kingswood Education Technology Co Ltd formerly known as Suzhou Kingswood Printing Ink Co Ltd operates in the printing ink industry. The company is a ink manufacturer that focuses on research and development of polymer materials and modified vegetable oils which is used for production of printing inks. The products of the company include DWA high pigmented, color intensive fast offset ink and DWT color intensive fast offset ink.

Unipar Carbocloro SA is a Brazilian company which is engaged in producing and PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride) resins and chemicals, such as caustic soda, liquid and prills, and sodium hypochlorite. It offers chlorine, soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite, and dichloroethane for the use in water treatment.

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.

Palfinger AG is an Austrian manufacturing company that offers cranes, forklifts, truck bodies, and lifting equipment for land and water vehicles. Palfinger has two operating segments: Sales & Service and Operations. Segment sales & service comprises the sales and service units. The segment operations comprise the production sites and the respective production share of the company. It earns the majority of revenue from the sales & service segment. Its geographical segments include Europe, Middle East, & Africa; North America; Latin America; Eurasia; Asia-Pacific; and Marine. Business in Europe, the Middle East, & the Africa region generates the majority of the company's revenue.

Shanghai C and D Innostic Medical Technology Group Co Ltd is engaged in Direct sales and distribution of medical devices, and provision of services such as intensive operation of medical consumables (SPD) to terminal hospitals.

Sao Martinho SA operates the following segments: sugar, ethanol, electricity, real estate ventures, Yeast, and other products. Sales of sugar and ethanol, both of which the company produces with sugar cane, comprise the vast majority of the company's revenue. Sao Martinho produces sugar and ethanol in its four Brazilian mills. The company derives its sugar cane mostly from its own plantations, agricultural partnerships, shareholders, and related companies. Sao Martinho exports most of its sugar, and it sells most of its ethanol domestically.

Boubyan Petrochemical Co KSC is engaged in manufacturing petrochemical material and its derivatives and also sells, purchases, supplies, distributes, exports and stores such materials. The company's operating segment includes Energy, manufacturing and petrochemical sector and Services and education, and Others. It generates maximum revenue from the Energy, manufacturing and petrochemical sector segment.

Lanxess AG is a German chemical company that was originally spun out of Bayer. Lanxess has visibly decommoditised its portfolio by divesting its synthetic rubber business. It has business segments namely: specialty chemicals company in the fields of consumer protection chemicals, specialty additives, intermediates, and others. Geographically, it operates in EMEA (excluding Germany), Germany, Americas, and Asia-Pacific.

Lafarge India is a Kolkata-based cement manufacturer operating in eastern and northeastern India as part of the Holcim Group. The company produces clinker, Portland cement, and ready-mix concrete from facilities in Meghalaya and Rajasthan, supplying infrastructure and housing projects.

Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund provides industrial chemicals and services to customers in North America and around the world. The company is organized into two operating segments: Sulphur and Water Chemicals (SWC) and Electrochemicals. Its geographical segments are Canada, the United States which derives maximum revenue, and South America.

Elkem ASA offers material solutions shaping and more sustainable future. The company develops silicones, silicon products, and carbon solutions by combining natural raw materials, renewable energy, and human ingenuity. The group helps its customers create and improve essential innovations like electric mobility, digital communications, health, and personal care, as well as smarter and more sustainable cities. It has three reportable segments, namely Silicones, Silicon Products, and Carbon Solutions. It generates the majority of the revenue from the Silicones segment.

Omnia Holdings Ltd is a holding company that manufactures and sells a variety of chemicals and chemical-based products through its subsidiaries. The firm is divided into three segments based on the end customer. The mining segment sells explosives and mining accessories to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries. The agriculture segment, which generates the majority of revenue, sells fertilizers and nutrients to the agricultural industry. The chemicals segment sells chemicals used to treat drinking water, as well as chemicals used to produce renewable energy materials and animal nutrition products. The vast majority of revenue comes from the agriculture segment, and the company's primary geographic market is South Africa.

National Petrochemical Industrial Company is a Yanbu-based joint venture between Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and Japanese partners that manufactures polypropylene resins. The facility produces homopolymer, random copolymer and impact copolymer grades with an annual capacity exceeding 400,000 metric tons. Products supply packaging, automotive and textile sectors across the Middle East and export markets.

NextChem is a Milan-headquartered engineering subsidiary of Maire Tecnimont focused on green chemistry and sustainable processes. The division designs plants for hydrogen production, methanol synthesis from CO2, and waste-to-chemicals conversion. Active in energy transition projects across Europe and the Middle East, NextChem deploys technologies for decarbonization and circular economy initiatives.

B&C Chemical is a China-based developer and producer of semiconductor photoresists including ArF, KrF, G-line, I-line, and electron beam variants for integrated circuit fabrication. The company manufactures monomers, resins, photoacids, and finished resists used in advanced nodes for logic chips, memory, and power devices. Facilities in Shanghai support the domestic supply chain for backend packaging and compound semiconductors. Established in 2010, B&C Chemical supplies foundries like SMIC and equipment makers amid China's push for materials self-sufficiency.