Feralco Nordic AB Acquires Eka Chemicals Vetlanda Site

27 August 2010

PRESS RELEASE

Feralco Nordic AB  Acquires Eka Chemicals Vetlanda Site

Feralco Nordic AB has agreed the purchase of the Water Treatment Chemicals facility of Eka Chemicals based in Vetlanda Sweden.  The facility is primarily involved in the manufacture of polyaluminium chloride products.

This strategic purchase provides Feralco Nordic  AB with expanded opportunities to meet the needs of end users in the municipal, pulp & paper and general industrial water treatment markets in the Scandinavian region.  The transferring personnel based in both Vetlanda and Bohus will further strengthen the knowhow of Feralco Nordic in these end user markets .

“ The experience of the Vetlanda  employees in the processing  of industrial  side streams to produce  high performance products is of particular interest” says Mr Bo Blixt, MD Feralco Nordic AB “and is an activity  we are keen to continue and expand in the future”.

“We can also envisage benefits in the areas of logistics and strategic purchasing”.

Feralco AB, part of the private Mellby Gaard Group, is the second largest producer of inorganic coagulants in Europe.

For further information please contact;

Mr Bo Blixt, MD Feralco Nordic AB Telephone +46 707 240075