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Pulcra Will Acquire Former Dystar Plant
by Michael McCoy
April 12, 2010
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 88, Issue 15
Pulcra Chemicals has agreed to purchase the former DyStar facility in Geretsried, Germany. DyStar, which filed for bankruptcy last year, was acquired last month by India’s Kiri Dyes & Chemicals (C&EN, March 22, page 12), but the deal didn’t include the Geretsried plant, which employs 206 people in the production of auxiliary chemicals for the textile and leather industries. Pulcra, formed in 2007, is the former process chemicals business of Cognis. Pulcra CEO Yusuf Aktalay says his firm’s customers are similar to those served by the Geretsried plant.
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