UPONOR
Sale of German Hewing subsidiary to Rettig completed
Shortly before Easter, Finnish pipe manufacturer Uponor (Vantaa; www.uponor.com) announced that it had wrapped up the sale of its German OEM unit Hewing (Ochtrup; www.hewing.de) to Rettig ICC (Maastricht / The Netherlands; www.rettigicc.com) – see also Plasteurope.com of 26.01.2012. The EUR 11.9m deal is effective from 1 January 2012 and Hewing’s performance therefore will not be accretive to Uponor’s 2012 performance. The German OEM producer’s 230 employees generated sales of more than EUR 46m in 2011.
11.04.2012 Plasteurope.com [222032-0]
Published on 11.04.2012