The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA has acquired the high-performance additives business of the Frankfurt based DyStar group effective as of March 30, 2009. The acquired business with annual of sales of about EUR7.5 (USD10.19) million will be integrated into the BYK Additives & Instruments division. It mainly comprises the technologies for the production of additives, for the processing of plastics compounds and the existing customer contacts. The production of the additives will be integrated into BYK's main factory in Wesel.
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