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Report: Private equity firms eyeing Bayer MaterialScience

October 23, 2014
Energy & Chemical Value Chain
Private equity firms are mulling possible offers for Bayer MaterialScience (BMS), the German life science company’s major polyurethanes and polycarbonates business, according to a report on Reuters, citing sources familiar with the situation. Analysts have already speculated that BMS, which could be worth around €10 billion ($12.7 billion) on a debt-free basis when it is separated from Bayer next year, might also attract an industry buyer keen to establish a leadership position in BMS’s value-added plastics markets. 
 
> Read the full article on the Chemical Week website
 
By Natasha Alperowicz
 

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