Coventya
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| legal form | Société par actions simplifiée |
| founding | 1927 |
| Seat |
Clichy , France
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| management | Thomas Costa Chief Executive Officer (CEO) |
| Number of employees | 670 (2010) |
| sales | 150 million euros (2018) |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.coventya.com |
Coventya is an international company that offers specialty chemicals for electroplating, surface finishing and friction control. Surface finishing is z. B. used in the automotive industry, fashion industry, luxury goods, electronics or the oil industry. The group of companies is represented in over 60 countries and employs more than 670 people (2018) who generate around € 150 million in sales per year.
Coventya is represented worldwide with production sites in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Turkey, India, China, South Korea, USA, Mexico and Brazil.
activities
Coventya develops, produces and sells additives for:
- Corrosion protection - zinc and zinc alloys, passivations based on trivalent chrome, sealers and top coats.
- Decoration - copper, nickel and chrome coatings, as well as their alloys
- Functional - electroless nickel and hard chrome
- Precious metals - Comprehensive range of processes for gold , silver , platinum metals and their alloys
- Pretreatment - cleaning and activation of surfaces before finishing
The main users are contract electroplating, which act as service providers for the automotive, construction and sanitary industries. The products are also sold in the fashion and luxury goods, electronics and oil industries.
Coventya is represented worldwide and operates six R&D locations in Europe and the USA. Coventya's largest competitor is MacDermid Performance Solutions .
history
The Coventya Group goes back to the Société Continentale Parker company, which was founded in 1927 by the aviation pioneers Robert Deté, Enea Bossi, Louis Paulhan and Pierre Prier. The decisive factor was a license from Parker, Chicago, with which the entry into phosphating was successful. By concluding a distribution agreement with the US company Udylite, the spectrum was expanded to include electroplating technology.
In 1965, Metallgesellschaft in Frankfurt / Main took over the majority of Société Continentale Parker and managed it as a stake in its specialty chemicals subsidiary Chemetall. While the neighboring regions such as Benelux and Spain were initially in the foreground, from 1988 a forced policy of external growth in European electroplating markets followed:
- Barattini, Italy (1989)
- Polar, Italy (1993)
- TECS, France (1994)
- Pelidag, France (1995)
- Weiland, Germany (1996)
The resulting variety of names was eliminated in 1998 by renaming it Chemetall Plating Technologies.
The listed metal company got into considerable economic difficulties in 1993 due to bad speculation in the oil business, from which it never fully recovered. Indirectly, this led Chemetall to part ways with the electroplating business in 2000 and the latter was spun off under the name Coventya and sold to a financial investor.
The internationalization of the company was continued in the following years through further acquisitions or start-ups:
- Folke-Stigen, Sweden (2001)
- McGean Rohco Mexico (2002)
- CGT / Auromet, Italy (2002)
- CGL Quimica, Brazil (2003)
- Sirius Technologies, USA (2004)
- Coventya (Suzhou) Chemicals, China, 2006
- Taskem, USA (2007)
- Palojoki, Finland (2008)
- Electroplating activities of Chemetall-Rai, India (2011)
- Molecular Technologies, UK (2012)
This establishment of a worldwide service infrastructure became necessary due to the expectations of the automotive industry, which in turn is globalizing and expects its strategic suppliers to take appropriate steps.
Ownership
After the takeover of Société Continentale Parker by the Frankfurt-based Metallgesellschaft in 1965, the business was located in Chemetall GmbH, which was spun off in 1982. The latter was focused on the fine and specialty chemicals business. After the takeover of Dynamit Nobel AG in 1992, the Metallgesellschaft bundled all chemical activities in its new subsidiary. In 2000, Chemetall parted with the electroplating business in the form of a management buy-out , which was financed by division management and Quadriga Capital in Frankfurt. As a result, a significant proportion of the employees became shareholders of Coventya. After the investor left in 2006, the investment fund iXEN, which belongs to the French bank Natixis, took over the majority of the shares, which it sold to Barclays Private Equity France (now Equistone Partners Europe ) in 2011 . The business is managed by the Holding Compagnie Internationale de Galvanoplastie (CIGAL) with its headquarters in Clichy near Paris.
Locations
- Gutersloh, Germany
- Villorba, Italy
- Agliana, Italy
- Wolverhampton, UK
- Cleveland, USA
- Mexico city
- Caxias do Sul, Brazil
- Suzhou, China
- Pune, India
The group also operates service locations in over 40 countries.
Individual evidence
- ↑ About us. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
- ^ Al Ruffini, Matt Sisti, "Electroless Nickel Technology, Properties and Applications," Products Finishing 2004 Directory
- ↑ sats-france.com: Découverte des adhérents ( Memento of March 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lionel Thiery: SME-driven Innovation in Surface Finishing ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Chemetall Group: History ( Memento from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Plating news, 1993
- ↑ Plating news, 1993
- ↑ Plating news, 1995
- ↑ Plating news, 1996
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 13, 1996, No. 265, p. 31.
- ↑ usinenouvelle.com: Chemetall Plating Technologies se déploie - Reprise par Quadriga Capital et le management, la division traitements électrolytiques de Chemetall, rebaptisée Coventya, multiplie les projets.
- ^ Industrie.com: Première acquisition pour Coventya
- ↑ Plating news, 2003
- ↑ industrie.com: Coventya reprend un groupe Italy
- ↑ Plating news, 2004
- ↑ a b Sirius-Tech.com: AboutUs
- ↑ sfchina.net: Coventya Surface Treatment Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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 Chemetall Group: One-Stop Supplier for the Aerospace Industry ( Memento from April 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ lesechos.fr: Coventya, un nouvel acteur sur le marché de la galvanoplastie
- ↑ La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires (October 16, 2006): SJ Berwin, Skadden et Weil Gotshal sur le rachat de Coventya ( Memento of the original of November 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cfo-news.com: NiXEN Partners annonce la cession du groupe Coventya
- ↑ Allemagne Annuaire des entreprises en Allemagne: Coventya GmbH Gütersloh ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ impresaitalia.info: COVENTYA SRL - VILLORBA
- ↑ impresaitalia.info: COVENTYA SRL DIVISIONE AUROMET
- ↑ manta.com: COVENTYA, Inc. - Cleveland, OH (Ohio)
- ↑ business-to-business-directory.com: Coventya México SA de CV ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ hagah.com.br: Coventya Química, São José, Caxias do Sul, RS
- ↑ importgenius.com: COVENTYA Worldwide Headquarters ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
