MOSCOW (MRC) -- France-based Saint-Gobain SA has acquired Manassas, Va.-based filter and membrane specialist ZenPure Corp., said Plasticnews.
ZenPure designs and manufactures filters and membrane devices of any size, adapter type, fitting type and configuration, using materials including polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, polyethersulfone, polytetrafluoroethylene, nylon and cellulose.
The products are manufactured by its Chinese subsidiary, ZenPure (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. Founded in 2002, ZenPure primarily serves the health care and life-sciences industries. ZenPure products are marketed and sold across the globe.
The acquisition increases the range of fluid systems made by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., which is based in Aurora, Ohio.
Paris-based Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes building and high-performance materials. Its 2014 sales were 41 billion euros (about USD46.3 billion).
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has more than 5,700 employees in 18 countries.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
As MRC informed earlier, Saint-Gobain in early April extended an agreement with the Burkard-Schenker family that would see it take control of Switzerland's Sika in order to give it time to complete the deal in the face of opposition.
Compagnie de Saint Gobain SA, (also Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA), is a France-based producer, processor and distributor of construction and high-performance materials and packaging. The Company is engaged in four business activities: Innovative Materials, including the manufacture and distribution of flat glass, used in the automobile, construction and other sectors, as well as the production of high-performance materials, such as ceramics, plastics and abrasives, among others; Construction Products, focused on gypsum, and pipes, among other products; Building Distribution, specialized in the distribution of building materials to professionals and consumers, and Packaging, comprising the production of glass jars and bottles.
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