Univar Solutions Acquisition & Valuation

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.

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.

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 segments, and the majority of the company's revenue is earned in Singapore.

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.

Axalta Coating Systems Ltd is a manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of high-performance coatings systems. It operates in two segments: Performance Coatings and Mobility Coatings. The Performance Coatings segment provides liquid and powder coatings solutions to a fragmented and local customer base. Its end markets include refinish and industrial, and the Mobility Coatings segment relates to the provision of coating technologies to original equipment manufacturers of light and commercial vehicles. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Mobility Coatings segment. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, followed by North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

Diversified chemicals maker with three main segments: fluorochemicals and refrigerant gases, specialty chemicals for agrochemical and pharma customers, and packaging films and technical textiles such as tyre cord fabric. Sells to industrial customers in India and abroad. Headquartered in Gurugram.

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.

Rabigh Refining & Petrochemical Co is engaged in the development, construction, and operation of an integrated petroleum refining and petrochemical complex. The company's operating segment include Refined Products and Petrochemicals. It generates maximum revenue from the Refined products segment.

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.

Addtech AB is a group of businesses offering high-tech products and solutions to customers in the manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. The Company operates through the Automation, Electrification, Energy, Industry, Process, and Safety segments, with the Industry segment generating the maximum revenue. The Industry business area includes the trend toward increased use of more sustainable fibre-based materials, ergonomic products for special vehicles, and energy-efficient drive systems. Geographically, the Company generates the maximum revenue from Sweden, with the remaining revenue generated from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Rest of Europe, and other countries.

Pool Corp distributes swimming pool supplies and related products. Its products include non-discretionary pool-maintenance products, like chemicals and replacement parts, as well as pool equipment, like packaged pools (kits to build swimming pools), cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights. Customers include pool builders and remodelers, independent retail stores, and pool repair and service companies.

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, Performance & Care, Other solutions, 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.

Hubei Dinglong Co Ltd is engaged in producing and supplying imaging chemicals used in electronic displays in China. It designs, develops and manufactures imaging materials for both toner and ink products. The company also offers Charge Control Agents (CCA), colorants and special pigments for both the imaging industry and automotive producers. The products of the company are chemical prepared toner, charge control agent for toner, colorants for inkjet, dispersion and emulsion, plastic colorants, toner cartridges, chemical mechanical polishing pad, among others.

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.

Cepsa is a Spanish integrated energy company founded in 1929 and renamed Moeve in 2024. Its historical operations include oil refining, fuel marketing, service stations, lubricants, aviation and marine fuels, petrochemicals and selected upstream interests. The group serves industrial customers, transport operators, distributors and motorists, generating revenue from commodity production, refining margins, chemical sales and retail energy products. It operates major industrial complexes in Andalusia and a broad Iberian commercial network. More recent investment has shifted toward renewable fuels, electric mobility, green hydrogen and other lower-carbon energy infrastructure. Mubadala has controlled the group since acquiring the former IPIC interest, while Carlyle held a substantial minority stake during part of the covered period.

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.

China National BlueStar is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer of new materials and specialty chemical products. It is a subsidiary of the state-owned chemical group ChemChina. Its activities include silicone manufacturing, engineering plastics, membranes and other specialty chemicals sold to industrial customers in China and abroad. The group is headquartered in Beijing and holds interests in a range of operating subsidiaries. In 2007 it brought in Blackstone as its first outside equity investor, in the private equity firm's first investment in China. Revenue comes from sales of chemical and material products to industrial customers. The company is part of the Chinese central government's chemicals sector and sells domestically and for export.

Air First is a Barcelona-based manufacturer and distributor of industrial gases including nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and acetylene for welding, cutting, and manufacturing. It supplies cylinders, bulk tanks, and on-site generation systems to automotive, metal fabrication, and food processing industries in Spain and Portugal. The company operates filling plants and delivery fleets, adhering to EN ISO 9001 quality controls.