Israel Chemicals acquires stake in Chemutura

8 December 2011

Israel Chemicals has acquired the 50% stake of Tetrabrom Technologies owned by US-based Chemutura to become the company's exclusive owner.

The Tetrabrom production plant at Ramat Hovav in southern Israel will annually produce 45,000t of the fire-retardant tetrabromobisphenol-A(TBBA).

Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.