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Mitsubishi Materials is to acquire Germany tungsten powder producer H.C. Starck Holdings from its current owner, Vietnamese conglomerate Masan for $134m. Tungsten is used in carbide tools for making auto engine and aircraft components and is already a product line for Mitsubishi Materials in the USA and China. It will become one of the largest suppliers globally with this acquisition.
H.C. Starck employs 540 people at three production sites in Germany, Canada and China plus sales offices in the U.S. and Japan. MMC has several hundred employees in Europe in a range of companies including previous acquisitions such as Luvata.
Another subsidiary of H.C. Starck, in the ceramics sector, was acquired by Kyocera in 2019.
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