Univar Solutions Acquisition & Valuation

Ramcharan is a distributor of speciality chemicals with a strong focus on the automotive sector. Its subsidiary RCPL manufactures rubber and plastic products since the 2011-12 fiscal year, building expertise that attracts rising demand from automotive and aviation industries. The Chennai-headquartered company supplies materials essential for vehicle components and industrial applications across India.

Ecopro Co Ltd is engaged in the battery materials business, mainly serving the lithium-ion battery industry. The company operates through two reportable segments: Battery Materials business and Other business. The Battery Materials business segment focuses on cathode materials, the core components used in lithium-ion batteries, and also covers precursors, lithium, and recycling activities related to the cathode materials business.

Element Solutions Inc is a specialty chemicals company whose businesses supply a broad range of solutions that enhance the performance of products people use every day. The company's reportable segments are Electronics and Industrial & Specialty. The Electronics segment, which generates maximum revenue, researches, formulates, and sells specialty chemicals and process technologies for all types of electronics hardware, from complex printed circuit board designs to semiconductor packaging. This segment's wet chemicals for metallization, surface treatments, and solderable finishes form the physical circuitry pathways, and its assembly materials, such as solder, pastes, fluxes, and adhesives, join those pathways together.

Sembcorp Industries Ltd is an investment holding company engaged in the production and supply of utility services, and handling and storage of petroleum products and chemicals. Its business is divided into five segments: Gas and Related Services, Renewables, Integrated Urban Solutions, Decarbonisation Solutions, Other Businesses and Corporate. The company's service portfolio includes power generation, process steam production, wastewater treatment, integrated solutions for offshore and marine industries such as specialized shipbuilding, and repairs & upgrades, and among others. A vast majority of the company's income is generated by the energy segment, and the majority of the company's revenue is earned in Singapore and India together.

Core & Main is a leading specialty distributor with a focus on water, wastewater, storm drainage, and fire protection products. The company provides solutions to municipalities, private water companies, and professional contractors across municipal, nonresidential, and residential end markets. The company’s specialty products and services are used in the maintenance, repair, replacement, and construction of water and fire protection infrastructure.

Avnet Inc is an electronic component technology distributor and solutions provider serving customers across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia. It works with electronic component manufacturers in every electronic component segment and serves startups, mid-sized businesses, enterprise-level original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers, and original design manufacturers (ODMs). Its segments are Electronic Components (EC) and Farnell, with EC generating maximum revenue. The EC operating group mainly supports high- and medium-volume customers and markets, and sells and distributes semiconductors, IP&E components (interconnect, passive, and electromechanical components), and other integrated and embedded components.

Established in 1920 to produce chemicals for Eastman Kodak, Eastman Chemical has grown into a global specialty chemical company with manufacturing sites around the world. The company generates the majority of its sales outside of the United States, with a strong presence in Asian markets. During the past several years, Eastman has sold noncore businesses, choosing to focus on higher-margin specialty product offerings.

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.

Finning International Inc is a dealer and distributor of heavy-duty machinery and parts of the Caterpillar brand. The company sells and rents Caterpillar machinery to the mining, construction, petroleum, forestry, and power system application industries. Finning International further provides parts and services for equipment and engines to its customers via its owned distribution network and buys and sells used equipment domestically and internationally after reconditioning or rebuilding the machinery. The company operates in Canada, Chile, UK, Argentina and Others.

PT Chandra Asri Pacific Tbk produces petrochemicals. The company's reportable segments are: Olefin, Polyolefin, Styrene monomer, Butadiene, Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) & Butene-1, Benzene, and Infrastructure. The majority of the company's revenue is generated from the Polyolefin segment, followed by the Olefins, which includes revenue generated from its products like ethylene, propylene, pyrolysis, gasoline, mixed C4, naphtha, polyethylene, and polypropylene. Geographically, the company operates in Indonesia and Singapore.

Addtech AB is a group of businesses offering high-tech products and solutions to customers in the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. The company's segments include Automation, Electrification, Energy, Industrial Solutions, and Process Technology. It generates maximum revenue from the Energy segment. Energy produces and sells products for electricity transmission, electrical installation, and safety products in transport. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Sweden, and the rest from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Rest of Europe, and other countries.

Westlake Corp is a manufacturer and supplier of chemicals, polymers, and building products. Its Performance and Essential Materials segment offers a wide range of essential building blocks for making products utilized in everyday living, including olefins, vinyl chemicals, polyethylene, and epoxies. Its Housing and Infrastructure Products segment produces key finished goods for building products, pipe and fittings, and global compounds businesses.

Reece is an Australian distributor of plumbing supplies and bathroom products, with businesses in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Reece Australia holds Australia’s largest range of individual plumbing stock-keeping units, supporting plumbing needs for general plumbing, bathrooms, kitchens, heating and air conditioning, irrigation, refrigeration, pools, commercial and government projects, and fire services.In the Australia and New Zealand markets, Reece’s trade, customers are mostly small to medium plumbing businesses working in the areas of residential repairs, renovations, or new home builds.The US business principally serves plumbers working on commercial and residential construction projects and has a network of almost 300 stores in the southern Sunbelt states.

Syensqo SA operates as a chemical manufacturing company. The company provides chemical solutions such as specialty polymers, composite materials, specialty formulations, and bio-circular chemistries to assist its customers in identifying, developing, and manufacturing sustainable solutions. It operates in three reportable segments: Materials, Consumer & Resources, and Corporate & Business Services. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Materials segment, which consists of a high-performance polymers platform coupled with a composites business mainly serving automotive, aerospace & defense, and electronics markets.

Sasol Ltd operates as a vertically integrated chemicals and energy company through its two main businesses: the Southern Africa Energy & Chemicals business and the International Chemical business. It generates maximum revenue from the Southern Africa Energy & Chemicals business, which operates integrated value chains with feedstock sourced from the Mining and Gas operating segments. Geographically, the company generates the majority of its revenue from South Africa.

Xiamen Golden Egret Special Alloy is a Xiamen-based manufacturer producing tungsten powders and related products. Through gesac.com.cn, it supplies cemented carbide materials, thermal spray powders, and precision tools to global industries including mining, aerospace, and machining.

Cepsa is a Spanish integrated energy group that refines crude oil, sells fuels through its own service-station network and manufactures petrochemicals including phenol, acetone and linear alkylbenzene. Refining is concentrated in Andalusia, at Huelva and San Roque, and the group also holds upstream oil and gas interests outside Spain. More recent capital spending has shifted toward renewable hydrogen, biofuels and electric-vehicle charging, and the group adopted the Moeve brand in 2024. Abu Dhabi's Mubadala has been the controlling shareholder since 2011.

McKesson Medical-Surgical is a national distributor of medical supplies and equipment headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It supplies physician offices, surgery centers, nursing homes, homecare providers, and hospitals with products ranging from infection prevention items to furniture and diagnostics. The business operates 11 distribution centers across the United States and offers online ordering through McKessonSupply.com, along with clinical consulting and vendor-managed inventory programs. Acquired by McKesson Corporation in 2018 from Becton Dickinson, it supports over 100,000 alternate site healthcare facilities.