MOSCOW (MRC) -- Atotech says it has closed its USD17/share initial public offering (IPO), which commenced on 4 February, according to Chemweek.
Gross proceeds from the IPO totaled USD497.6 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and other expenses.
The Carlyle Group (Washington, DC), Atotech’s private equity owner, announced plans for an IPO in late January, with proceeds expecting to go towards paying down debt. Shares in the company are trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker ‘ATC.’
Atotech’s shares have risen in early trading, closing at USD19/share today.
Citigroup, Credit Suisse, BofA Securities, and J.P. Morgan are lead book-running managers for the proposed IPO. Additional book-running managers include Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, UBS Investment Bank, Baird, BMO Capital Markets, and HSBC. The co-managers are TCG Capital Markets L.L.C. and Mischler Financial Group.
As MRC reported earlier, in May 2016, French oil and gas producer Total announced plans to sell its specialty chemicals and equipment division Atotech. "Atotech no longer falls within Total"s strategic vision," the paper quoted Patrick Pouyanne then. Total said in February that year it was planning assets sale of about USD4 billion in 2016, mostly non-core assets. Berlin-based Atotech, which generates annual sales of about USD1 billion, manufactures specialty chemicals and equipment for printed circuit boards and semiconductors. It was Total"s sole remaining specialty chemicals unit after the sale of Bostik in 2014.
We remind that in November 2019, Total disclosed that itis evaluating construction of a new gas cracker at its Deasan, South Korea, joint venture (JV) with Hanwha Chemical.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 2,220,640 tonnes in 2020, up by 2% year on year. Only shipments of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) increased. At the same time, polypropylene (PP) shipments to the Russian market reached 1 240,000 tonnes in 2020 (calculated using the formula: production, minus exports, plus imports, excluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020).
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