Rockwood Holdings, Inc.
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Rockwood Holdings, Inc. Company Profile

Rockwood Holdings, which operates as Rockwood Specialties, gets most of its sales from specialty chemicals, including lithium compounds, metal treatments, and performance additives (such as wood preservation chemicals and iron oxide pigments). Other products include titanium dioxide, advanced ceramics, specialty compounds, and custom synthesis intermediates. It serves the construction, paper, and water treatment industries. A leader in many of its niches, the firm was created in 2000 when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) bought several Laporte divisions; it got much larger by adding parts of Dynamit Nobel in 2004. Sales to Germany outpace those to any other region, including the US. KKR owns about 21% Rockwood.