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Citation
(1998), "Ready for expansion", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 27 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.1998.12927fab.007
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1998, MCB UP Limited
Ready for expansion
Ready for expansion
Keywords Acquisition, British Vita, Hyperlast
One of Europe's leading manufacturers of high-performance polymers, Hyperlast Limited (based at Birch Vale on the Derbyshire/Cheshire border), has been acquired by British Vita plc for £34.6 million (including debt assumed). The acquisition of Hyperlast announced recently comes just three years after the company's management buy-out (backed by 3i) from Kemira Oy, part of the Finnish chemicals group. The move completes a series of changes for the Derbyshire-based systems-house that has specialised in high-performance polyurethane elastomers since its formation in the 1960s.