Bencis Buyout Fund IV, a fund managed by Bencis Capital Partners, an independent investment company based in Amsterdam and Brussels has acquired a majority share of BRB Holding B.V., a global producer of silicones, lube oil additives and chemicals.
“Within 35 years, BRB has evolved into a global player,” said Ralph Pinckaers, chief executive officer of BRB. “Now is the time to move to the next level. We have made strategic investments for both our Silicone and Lube oil Additive businesses, in Malaysia and Singapore respectively. Bencis comes at the perfect moment to help us fuel our further growth. We can now realise manufacturing and product range expansion, extended geographical coverage and new business partnerships, while capitalising on our identity: Ambition, Flexibility and Innovation.”
The BRB Silicones business unit produces specialty silicones like emulsions, antifoams, water repellants, silanes, resins, silicone polyethers, vinyl silicones, amino silicones, dimethiconol blends, cross polymers and many more customized products for the silicone industry. The new partnership with Bencis will accelerate the growth in our two core markets for silicones: personal care & home care and construction & coating. Within the personal care industry, BRB is known as a silicone supplier with a wide range of solutions in all personal care areas including hair care, body care, and colour cosmetics. BRB also supplies a very broad range of superiorly priced core and specialty intermediates to the rest of the silicone industry.
“At Bencis, we enjoy teaming up with entrepreneurs and management teams in order to support them in implementing their plans. We do so based on a long term strategic vision that keeps the horizon in sight at all times. Company management retains full control however. We at Bencis use our 15 years of experience to facilitate growth via an intelligent, but also highly involved, approach. Through joint consultation, we progress in leaps and bounds and ultimately realize the company’s ambitions,” said Lesley van Zutphen, managing partner with Bencis Capital Partners B.V.
BRB has extensive experience in the fields of Silicones, Lube oil Additives and Chemicals. BRB is now of its kind, one of the largest independent and privately owned companies in the world. BRB supplies a large range of products marketed by two business units (Silicones and Lube oil Additives & Chemicals), to a broad range of customers in different industries like Lube Oil Blending, Cosmetic Industry, Coating Industry, Automotive, Off Shore Industry and High Tech industries. Established in 1981 and headquartered in the south of the Netherlands, BRB has created an effective worldwide supply chain network with offices and warehouses in Germany, Poland, United States, Malaysia, Australia, China, Singapore, Brazil, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. BRB’s manufacturing sites are located in Europe and Asia.
