Unifrax
| Unifrax I LLC | |
|---|---|
| legal form | LLC |
| Seat |
Tonawanda , New York , United States
|
| Number of employees | 2,500 |
| sales | 511 million US dollars (estimated) |
| Branch | Ceramic industry |
| Website | www.unifrax.com |
| As of March 31, 2014 | |
Unifrax is an American manufacturer of high temperature wool owned by private equity firm American Securities .
history
As 1891 The Carborundum Company ( " carborundum founded -Gesellschaft"). Ceramic fiber was invented there in 1942 and brought onto the market in 1951 under the trade name Fiberfrax . The company was owned by British Petroleum , who sold it to Saint-Gobain in 1996 . The fiber business was spun off as Unifrax and sold to the investor Kirtland Capital Partners . This passed the company on to American Securities Capital Partners in 2003.
In 2013, the Thuringian company Lauscha Fiber International was taken over.
Individual evidence
- ^ Moody's , July 10, 2014
- ↑ BP enters into sale and purchase agreement of Unifrax
- ↑ Fiberfrax 1942–2012 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Entry at Who to Whom
