美国PQ集团以6.5亿美元出售材料业务

原标题：美国PQ集团以6.5亿美元出售材料业务

    中国石化新闻网讯 据ICIS网站10月16日消息 美国特种化学品、催化剂和材料公司PQ集团控股公司将以6.5亿美元的价格将其高性能材料业务出售给私人股本公司约旦公司的子公司。

    此外，PQ正在审查其性能化学品业务的“战略选择”。

    材料业务为公路安全产品和工业及消费者应用提供工程微球剂。化学品业务生产硅酸钠、下游衍生物和特种硅酸盐。

    该公司在上周五提交的一份监管文件中称，这两项举措都是“更简单、更强”战略的一部分，该战略旨在专注于PQ的高增长、高利润的催化剂和炼油服务业务。

    性能材料业务的剥离预计将于2020年底结束。

    该公司预计将使用出售所得税后现金收益，以及部分现有现金余额减少约4.6亿美元的债务，同时还将至多2.5亿美元分配给特殊股东股息。

    王磊 摘译自 ICIS

    原文如下：

    US PQ Group sells materials business for $650m, reviews options for chems

    US specialty chemicals, catalysts and materials company PQ Group Holdings is selling its performance materials business for $650m to an affiliate of private equity firm The Jordan Company.

    In addition, PQ is reviewing "strategic alternatives" for its performance chemicals business.

    The materials business supplies engineered microspheres for highway safety products and industrial and consumer applications. The chemicals business produces sodium silicates and downstream derivatives and specialty silicas.

    Both moves are part of a "Simpler and Stronger" strategy to focus on PQ's high-growth and high-margin catalysts and refining services businesses, it said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

    The divestment of the performance materials business is expected to close by the end of 2020.

    The company expects to use after tax cash proceeds from the sale, along with a portion of existing cash balances, to reduce debt by about $460m while also allocating up to $250m to a special shareholder dividend.

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