Arizona Chemical
| Arizona Chemical Company, LLC | |
|---|---|
| legal form | LLC |
| founding | 1930 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Reason for dissolution | takeover |
| Seat |
Jacksonville , Florida ,
|
| management | Kevin M. Fogarty ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 1080 |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.arizonachemical.com |
Arizona Chemical is an American chemical company that produces pine chemicals, i.e. products derived from the sulphate process in pulp production such as tall oil , turpentine oil , rosin , terpenes and polyamide resins .
history
Arizona Chemical was founded in 1930 as a joint venture between International Paper and American Cyanamid . In 1984, International Paper gained sole control of the company and made several strategic acquisitions in Scandinavia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2007 the company was sold to the grasshopper Rhône Capital and two years later to American Securities .
In 2009 the German company Abieta Chemie was taken over.
In early 2016, Kraton Polymers acquired Arizona Chemical for $ 1.37 billion.
Works
Arizona Chemical has a tall oil refining capacity of 800,000 tons per year:
- Panama City , Florida, USA
- Port St. Joe , Florida, USA (closed July 2009)
- Savannah, Georgia , USA
- Dover, Ohio , USA
- Gersthofen , Germany
- Chester-le-Street , England
- Niort , France
- Oulu , Finland
- Sandarne near Söderhamn , Sweden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Management team. In: kraton.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2017 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 (English).
- ^ Employee Relations. (No longer available online.) In: arizonachemical.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Tree of Life - Creating a sustainable future with pine chemicals. (PDF; 619 kB) (No longer available online.) In: arizonachemical.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 (English).
- ^ Arizona Chemical sold to Rhone Capital as part of International Paper deal. In: highbeam.com. December 20, 2006, archived from the original on March 15, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Mike Stone: Exclusive: Arizona Chemical seeks more than $ 1.5 billion in sale. In: reuters.com. December 2, 2014, accessed June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Arizona completes acquisition of Abieta. In: kgk-rubberpoint.de. 2009, accessed June 14, 2017 .
- ^ Kraton buys Arizona Chemical. In: gupta-verlag.de. October 12, 2015, accessed June 13, 2017 .
- ^ Arizona Chemical Announces Closure Of Port St. Joe, FL, Plant. Ink World Magazine, July 24, 2009, accessed February 9, 2020 .
