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Materials
Rieke Metals Acquired By Investment Firm
by Michael McCoy
August 18, 2014
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 92, Issue 33
The investment firm Blue Diamond Capital has bought Rieke Metals for an undisclosed sum. Rieke was founded in 1991 by Reuben Rieke, a University of Nebraska chemist who wanted to commercialize highly reactive zinc chemistry developed in his labs. Today the company has about a dozen employees in Lincoln, Neb., involved in organometallic and polymer chemistry. Blue Diamond says it sees an opportunity to expand Rieke’s customer base beyond the R&D community to markets such as pharmaceutical intermediates and conductive polymers.
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