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Infectious disease

Lanxess to buy 2 French disinfectant makers

by Craig Bettenhausen
January 22, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 3

 

A woman in a Lanxess lab coat points a stylus at a petri dish containing lots of tiny spots.
Credit: Lanxess
Lanxess is growing its disinfection business by acquisition and internal R&D.

Lanxess is expanding its disinfection business with two acquisitions. The specialty chemical firm has signed an agreement to purchase Intace, a French specialist in fungicides for packaging, for an undisclosed sum. Lanxess is also negotiating the $85 million purchase of the French livestock disinfection products maker Theseo, a deal it expects to close midyear. “We are actively participating in the market consolidation of the consumer protection sector,” Nicolas Gallacier, Lanxess’s global business director for biocides, says in a statement.

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