Alent
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| legal form | Public Limited Company |
| founding | 2012 |
| resolution | 2015 |
| Seat |
Woking , UK
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| management | Andrew Heath ( CEO ) Peter Hill ( Chairman ) |
| Number of employees | 2,590 (2014) |
| sales | 644 800 000 GBP (2014) |
| Branch | Chemistry , electrical engineering |
Alent plc was a British chemical and electrical engineering company headquartered in Woking , England . The company was created on December 18, 2012 from the spin-off of the Performance Materials Division of the British conglomerate Cookson Group . Alent was listed on the FTSE 250 on the London Stock Exchange .
Worldwide there were almost 2,600 employees in the company. Alent's customers included many well-known large corporations such as Apple , Samsung , Hewlett Packard , Dell and LG .
In 2015, Alent was acquired for 1.35 billion pounds by the US company Platform Specialty Products , controlled by investors Nicolas Berggruen and Martin E. Franklin , and the name Alent was taken off the market.
Alent in Germany
Alent's German headquarters were in Langenfeld , between Cologne and Düsseldorf, and operated under the name Alent Germany GmbH . With around 350 employees, the company developed, produced and sold specialty chemicals ( Enthone brand ) and electrical engineering ( alpha brand ) there. Since the takeover of the ORMECON company, in Ammersbek near Hamburg , the company's Nano Science Center has been located there .
Business activity
Alent was represented on all continents. Worldwide activities were directed from the headquarters in Woking. There were also locations on the European continent in Germany, France , Spain , Portugal , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands , Poland , Austria , Hungary and Turkey .
In America, the company was represented in Mexico and Brazil in addition to the USA ( New Jersey and Connecticut ) .
In the course of the “ Asia boom”, the company had also increasingly concentrated on these markets in recent years and set up new production and development sites in Singapore , Japan and India .
Products
With its subsidiaries Enthone and Alpha Metals , Alent produced, among other things, specialty chemicals for surface finishing and consumables for the electrical industry such as B. Solder , various metal alloys and flux for the manufacture of printed circuit boards. In addition, Alent produced water treatment products under the Fernox brand.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Annual Report 2014 ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English )
- ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Platform-will-Chemiekonzern-Alent-kaufen-article15501731.html