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Laporte plc was a leading British chemicals business that operated from 1888 to 2000. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. ==History== The Company was founded by Bernard Laporte, a German Chemist, in 1888 as a supplier of peroxide to bleach straw boating hats.〔(Degussa-Huels buys Laporte outright ) The Scotsman, 16 December 2000〕 It subsequently diversified into other aspects of bleaching and commercial laundry chemicals.〔 In the 1980s it disposed of its manufacturing operations.〔(Laporte travels the long hard road from commodities to specialties ) Chemical Week, August 1993〕 In 1993 it acquired ''Evode Group plc'', suppliers of adhesives and specialties.〔(Laporte to the rescue ) Chemistry & Industry, 18 January 1993 〕 It went on to buy ''Aztec Peroxides Inc.'', a US peroxides business, in 1994〔(Laporte buys Aztec from Phillips, sells powder coatings ) Chemical Week, 5 January 1994〕 and ''Inspec Group plc'', suppliers of specialty chemicals, in 1998.〔(Laporte plans to buy Inspec for $1bn ) Wall Street Journal, 1998〕 It sold its major divisions, some 55% of the business by revenue, to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 2000. These divisions (''Pigments and Additives'', ''Formulated Products & Compounds'' and ''Computers & Electronics'') subsequently became known as ''Rockwood Holdings Inc.〔(Rockwood launched ) Chemical Market Reporter, December 2000〕 In December 2000 ''Degussa SKW'', a joint venture between Degussa AG and SKW Trostberg, acquired the remainder of the business.〔(Degussa to buy Laporte for £1.4bn ) Independent, 15 December 2000〕 The performance chemicals business was subsequently sold on by Degussa to Cognis.〔(Cognis buys Laporte Performance Chems ) Chemical Market Reporter, February 2003〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laporte plc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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