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Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited to Acquire MacDermid, Inc. for $1.8 Billion

Combined entity to be named Platform Specialty Products Corporation

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Platform Acquisition Holdings Limited has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MacDermid, Inc., a global provider of high value-added specialty chemicals, for approximately $1.8 billion plus contingent consideration. Platform will be renamed Platform Specialty Products Corporation (PSP). Following the close of the transaction, PSP expects to complete a listing of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange by the end of 2013. MacDermid is a global specialty chemicals company that has...

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