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EXHIBIT 99.1
The Lubrizol Corporation
29400 Lakeland Boulevard, Wickliffe, Ohio 44092-2298
29400 Lakeland Boulevard, Wickliffe, Ohio 44092-2298
News Release
FOR RELEASE: Immediately
FOR RELEASE: Immediately
FROM:
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Financial/Investor Contact | Media Contact | ||
Mark Sutherland | Julie Young | |||
440/347-1206 | 440/347-4432 | |||
Web Site: www.lubrizol.com |
Lubrizol Acquires Nalco Personal Care Business
Strengthens
Noveon® Consumer Specialties Product Portfolio with Industry Leading Brands
CLEVELAND, January 26, 2011 The Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE:LZ) announces today that it has
acquired Nalco Performance Products Group, a supplier of value-added specialty polymers and
formulation additives marketed to the global personal care and household care industries. This
acquisition, structured as an asset sale, will expand the strategic portfolio of Lubrizols
Noveon® Consumer Specialties Home and Personal Care product line. For the 12 months
ended December 2010, estimated sales of the Nalco personal care business are $45 million. The deal
closed on January 21, 2011.
Headquartered in Naperville, IL, Nalcos personal care product portfolio includes performance
polymers sold under globally recognized brand names, including:
| Merquat® Conditioning Polymers | ||
| Sensomer® Naturally Derived Conditioning Polymers | ||
| Fixomer® Styling Polymers | ||
| Solamer® UV Absorbers | ||
| Merguard® Preservatives |
These specialty ingredients are used by leading multinational cosmetic and consumer product
companies to improve the performance of hair, skin and home care products consumers use on a daily
basis.
The Noveon Consumer Specialties product portfolio includes rheology modifiers and thickeners,
fixative polymers, specialty surfactants, emollient esters, unique sensory modifiers and cationic
cassia conditioning polymers. Its claims-driving and enabling ingredients, including the industry
leading brand Carbopol® polymers, are designed to provide product formulators with a
strong range of technologies that enhance the visual and tactile appeal, functional performance and
convenience of fast-moving consumer goods.
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The joining of our two personal care product lines creates a portfolio of industry-leading
technologies that will help make our combined customers more successful through expanded access to
innovative ingredients, formulations and applications knowledge, commented Eric Schnur, president
of Lubrizol Advanced Materials. This is another example of how the company continues to invest in
our personal and home care business, increasing our product innovation capabilities, our global
infrastructure and our talent base.
While the Nalco personal care business has achieved consistent growth in sales and earnings over
the past eight years, the company decided to exit the personal care and household care business in
order to focus on its core industrial water, energy and air applications business.
Our personal care business is more product oriented than service oriented and not a strategic fit
with our emphasis on providing sustainability services for industrial water, energy and air
applications, said Nalco chairman and chief executive officer J. Erik Fyrwald. Lubrizol is a well
respected industry leader with a strong commitment to the personal care industry, which is more of
an advantage for that business. This sale allows Nalco to more closely concentrate on the
industrial and institutional markets that are the core of our business.
The agreement includes all Nalco personal care dedicated technology, know-how, application
knowledge, intellectual property, trade names, customer lists and relationships, and base business,
as well as royalty-free access to the use of technology and intellectual property currently shared
with other Nalco businesses. With this acquisition, Lubrizol will be assuming approximately 15
full-time employees, and it is expected that all Nalco personal care products will be transitioned
to Lubrizol over the next six months. The Nalco personal care brand names will be retained and
unified under the Noveon Consumer Specialties product line.
The acquisition will be accretive in the first year.
About The Lubrizol Corporation
The Lubrizol Corporation (NYSE: LZ) is an innovative specialty chemical company that produces and
supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets.
These technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, other transportation-related fluids
and industrial lubricants, as well as fuel additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition,
Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives for personal care products and pharmaceuticals; specialty
materials, including plastics technology and performance coatings in the form of specialty resins
and additives. Lubrizols industry-leading technologies in additives, ingredients and compounds
enhance the quality, performance and value of customers products, while reducing their
environmental impact.
With headquarters in Wickliffe, Ohio, The Lubrizol Corporation owns and operates manufacturing
facilities in 17 countries, as well as sales and technical offices around the world. Founded in
1928, Lubrizol has approximately 6,800 employees worldwide. Revenues for 2009 were $4.6 billion.
For more information, visit www.lubrizol.com.
All marks are owned by The Lubrizol Corporation.
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About Nalco
Nalco Company is the worlds largest sustainability services company focused on industrial water,
energy and air applications; delivering significant environmental, social and economic performance
benefits to our customers. The company helps its customers reduce energy, water and other natural
resource consumption, enhance air quality, minimize environmental releases and improve productivity
and end products while boosting the bottom line. Together these comprehensive solutions contribute
to the sustainable development of customer operations. Nalco is a member of the Dow Jones
Sustainability Indexes. More than 11,500 Nalco employees operate in 150 countries supported by a
comprehensive network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and research centers to serve a
broad range of end markets. In 2009, Nalco achieved sales of more than $3.7 billion. For more
information, visit www.nalco.com.
Forward Looking Statement
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws.
As a general matter, forward-looking statements relate to anticipated trends and expectations
rather than historical matters. Forward-looking statements are subject to uncertainties and
factors relating to the companys operations and business environment that are difficult to predict
and may be beyond the control of the company. Such uncertainties and factors may cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements.
Uncertainties and risk factors that could affect the future performance of the company and cause
results to differ from the forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited
to, the companys ability to manage margins in an environment of volatile raw material costs;
conditions affecting the companys customers, suppliers and the industries that it serves;
competitors responses to the companys products; changes in accounting, tax or regulatory
practices or requirements; and other factors that are set forth in managements discussion and
analysis of the companys most recently filed reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The forward-looking statements contained herein represent the companys judgment as of the date of
this release and it cautions readers not to place undue reliance on such statements. The company
assumes no obligations to update the statements contained in this release.
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