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Pequiven buys Colombian firm

May 1, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 18

Pequiven, the chemicals arm of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, has purchased a controlling interest in the caprolactam and fertilizers maker Monómeros Colombo Venezolanos from the Colombian firms Ecopetrol and Instituto de Fomento Industrial. PDVSA paid a total of $52.8 million. Monómeros runs a 30,000-metric-ton-per-year caprolactam plant in Barranquilla, Colombia. Pequiven and Brazil's Braskem recently announced plans to build an ethylene complex in Jose, Venezuela (C&EN, April 24, page 11).

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