BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$750.0M
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
We are a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of technologically advanced, high value-added specialty chemicals and advanced materials. We serve more than 60,000 customers across a wide variety of industries and geographic areas. We operate through five business segments: (1) Specialty Chemicals; (2) Performance Additives; (3) Titanium Dioxide Pigments; (4) Advanced Ceramics; and (5) Specialty Compounds. Our net sales consist of sales of our products, net of sales discounts, product returns and allowances. In addition, net sales include shipping and handling costs billed to customers. Sales are primarily made on a purchase order basis. Our cost of products sold consists of variable and fixed components. Our variable costs are proportional to volume and consist principally of raw materials, packaging and related supplies, certain energy costs, and certain distribution costs including inbound, outbound, and internal shipping and transfer costs. Our fixed costs are not significantly impacted by production volume and consist principally of certain fixed manufacturing costs and other distribution network costs, including warehousing. Fixed manufacturing costs comprise headcount-related costs and overhead, including depreciation, periodic maintenance costs, purchasing and receiving costs, inspection costs and certain energy costs. ...
Number of Employees 7,499
Contact Information
100 Overlook Center
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
1 609 514 0300
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NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing: 325998
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UK specialty chemicals company Elementis is selling its global pigments business headquartered in east St Louis, US to Rockwood Specialties for 140m [euro]
- 2007-06-11
UK specialty chemicals company Elementis is selling its global pigments business headquartered in east St Louis, US to Rockwood Specialties for 140m [euro]. The business had 2006 revenues of 94.2m [pounds sterling] to give an operating profit of 6.1m [pounds sterling].
Fitch Rates Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc. Sr. Secured Credit Rating at 'BB/RR1'; Outlook Stable
- 2006-06-09
CHICAGO -- Fitch has initiated ratings on Rockwood Specialties Group, Inc. Rockwood senior secured credit facility at 'BB/RR1'. At the same time, Fitch has assigned a rating to Rockwood's senior subordinated notes at 'B/RR4' and assigned an Issuer Default Rating IDR of 'B'. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The...
Rockwood Holdings, the parent company of Rockwood Specialties group, has sold the Rohner business of its French headquartered Group Novasep subsidiary, to Germany-based acquisition and restructuring specialist Arques Industries for an undisclosed sum
- 2006-04-03
Rockwood Holdings, the parent company of Rockwood Specialties group, has sold the Rohner business of its French headquartered Group Novasep subsidiary, to Germany-based acquisition and restructuring specialist Arques Industries for an undisclosed sum. Rohner operates a cGMP compliant advanced intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients custom manufacturing facility in Pratteln, Switzerland.
Rockwood Specialties Group has reached an agreement to acquire Sud-Chemie's Performance Additives Business Unit.(AGREEMENTS & ACQUISITIONS)
- 2005-12-01
Rockwood Specialties Group has reached an agreement to acquire Sud-Chemie's Performance Additives Business Unit. The business will be incorporated into Rockwood's Clay Additives Business Unit.
Rockwood specialties acquires Sud-Chemie Performance Additives Unit
- 2005-12-01
Sud-Chemie AG, Munich, Germany reached an agreement Oct. 19 with Rockwood Specialties Group Inc., Princeton, NJ, to sell its Performance Additives Business Unit, which produces rheological additives for the paints and coatings industry. The sale includes Sud-Chemie's additive business for carbonless copying paper. Rockwood will acquire both the technology...
New SVP for Rockwood Specialties.(Newsmakers)(Brief Article)
- 2004-10-01
Rockwood Specialties Group named Bruce Olsen as its new senior vice president. Olsen is a former board member of Bayer Chemicals and head of its Polymer Additives business. He served 22 years in sales, marketing, and management positions with Air Products & Chemicals Inc. ...
Rockwood acquires JM's pigments and dispersions.(Rockwood Specialties Inc., Johnson Matthey Ltd.)(Brief Article)
- 2004-07-21
Rockwood Specialties says it has agreed to acquire Johnson Matthey's JM pigments and dispersions business, part of JM's colors and coatings division, for 27 million [pounds sterling] ($50.5 million). The acquired business makes transparent iron oxide pigments and dispersions, color concentrates, and complex inorganic color ...
Rockwood Specialties Group to expand
- 2004-05-21
Chemical company Rockwood Specialties Group Inc., the Priceton, N.J.-based parent of advantis Technologies, announced that it will buy four businesses from Dynamit Nobel, also a chemical company, based in Troisdorf, Germany. The German companies purchased are Sachtleben Chemie GmbH, a leader in titanium dioxide production, based in Duisburg; Chemetall GmbH,...
Rockwood Specialties expands wafer operations. (In Brief).(France)(Brief Article)
- 2003-02-03
Rockwood Specialties Inc. has announced a $7 million expansion and refurbishment project at its Greasque wafer reclaim facility in the South of France that will increase capacity of 200 mm wafers from 370,000 wafers to 550,000 wafers per year.
Rockwood expands wood preservative capacity. (Newsbriefs).(Rockwood Specialties' Chemical Specialties)(Brief Article)
- 2002-05-15
Rockwood Specialties' Chemical Specialties (Charlotte, NC) division says it is investing $10 million to build a plant at Harrisburg, NC to produce the wood preservative alkaline copper quaternary ACQ, it says. Demand for ACQ has been on the rise following an industry-wide voluntary transition to non-arsenic...
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