Founded in 1976 in Vancouver, BC, IPAC Chemicals & Power Chemicals are market leading providers of unique specialty chemicals for the mining and sulphur industries. In addition, the Companies offer a suite of water treatment chemicals for commercial and industrial building owners. The Companies are known for proprietary and innovative products, and over the years have built a base of marquee customers in Western Canada and abroad.
DuBois Chemicals, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio is a full service specialty chemical company, developing and manufacturing chemicals for several different end markets. Founded in 1920, DuBois has made numerous, complimentary add-on acquisitions. The acquisition of IPAC Chemicals & Power Chemicals gives DuBois a presence in Western Canada and adds additional specialty chemicals to its overall product offering.
Capital West Partners acted as exclusive financial advisor to IPAC Chemicals & Power Chemicals on this transaction.
With this transaction, Dr. Andree Kang will also join the company as a buy-in manager. As CEO, he will strengthen the existing management team around Managing Director Beate Irmer.
GJM (JMT:LS) is one of Portugal’s largest multinational groups (c. EUR 8.9 billion market cap) that operates in food distribution and specialized retail.
IMAP closed 193 M&A transactions valued at over $7.0 billion in 2020, down from the 7 year high of 235 deals closed in 2019.
