Solenis to Acquire BASF's Flocculants BusinessSolenis to Acquire BASF's Flocculants Business

The flocculants business is for mining applications.

Kristen Kazarian, Managing Editor

July 22, 2024

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Solenis to acquire BASF business
BASF's portfolio includes flocculants and other products for solid liquid separation and material handling in mining applications.Maremagnum/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images

Solenis has signed an agreement to acquire BASF’s flocculants business for mining applications, ensuring a complete solution for Solenis’ mining and mineral processing customers.

The BASF product portfolio includes flocculants and other products used for solid liquid separation and material handling in mining applications under trademarks Magnafloc, Rheomax, Alclar, Alcotac, Jetwet, Aerowet, and Alcotech. With business activities around the world, the business has established a strong presence in key mining regions.

“We’re extremely excited to welcome a great team of commercial and industry professionals in the mining area to the expanding Solenis family," said said Jacques Herber, chief business officer, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia, Solenis. The highly competent and well-trusted sales teams will allow us to develop closer relationships with our customers by providing more solutions and added value to their operations and will eliminate supply agreements between BASF and Solenis allowing us to streamline our product and service offering for our mining and mineral processing customers.”

BASF’s mining solutions business provides sustainable solutions which increase productivity, recovery, and flexibility throughout the hydrometallurgical process of mining operations in leaching, solvent extraction, and flotation.

"We are convinced that the agreement with Solenis will deliver significant value to our mining customers,” adds Caren Hoffmann, vice president, heading BASF’s mining solutions business. “At the same time, we will thus be able to further concentrate on the continued development and commercialization of our flotation reagents and expanding our innovative solutions in the field of solvent extraction and leaching.”

The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2024.

About the Author

Kristen Kazarian

Managing Editor

Kristen Kazarian has been a writer and editor for more than three decades. She has worked at several consumer magazines and B2B publications in the fields of food and beverage, packaging, processing, women's interest, local news, health and nutrition, fashion and beauty, automotive, and IT.

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