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Rhodia will sell silicones business to China's BlueStar

Swiss chemical maker will work with Germany's Max Planck Institute

by Alexander H. Tullo
October 30, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 44

Abandoning earlier plans for a strategic alliance, Rhodia has agreed to sell its silicones business to Beijing-based China National BlueStar. The deal, which is expected to close in the next few months, values the business at about $500 million. Rhodia and BlueStar had been working since 2004 on an alliance that would have combined their silicones activities and built a silicone intermediates plant in Tianjin, China. Rhodia's silicones business had sales of about $525 million last year and operates plants in Saint-Fons and Roussillon, France. BlueStar calls itself China's largest organo-silicone producer. The sale will mark the second big exit from silicones this year. General Electric is selling GE Advanced Materials, a maker of silicone chemicals and quartz-based products, to Apollo Management for about $3.8 billion.

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