Romaco parent IPPT acquires Kilian

INTERNATIONAL Process and Packaging Technologies GmbH (IPPT) has announced the purchase of Kilian GmbH & Co. KG. IPPT is a portfolio company of Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and owner of the Romaco Group.

The official contract of sale has just been signed by Karlsruhe, Germany-based IPPT and the Italian IMA Group. The final completion of the contract is conditional on the approval of the antitrust authorities. No financial details were disclosed.
Kilian’s technologies are used in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical sectors for both industrial production and on a laboratory scale. Apart from a wide range of tablets for pharmaceutical use, stock cubes, dishwasher tabs and pressed dextrose and sweetener products are just a few of the many applications. The portfolio encompasses a variety of services in addition to classic machines and lines.

Demand for equipment from European OEMs is especially high in the rapidly expanding pharmaceutical markets of Asia, Eastern Europe and South America, due partly to the sharp rise in generics production worldwide. Killian, which reported sales of approximately €45 million in 2012, offers outstanding prospects in national and international markets alike. The company was acquired by the IMA Group in 2000 and currently employs some 150 staff at its Cologne headquarters.
“Kilian is a seasoned company and a leader in the field of tablet press technologies. It has an excellent reputation in key pharmaceutical and food production markets around the globe,” explained Paulo Alexandre, CEO of IPPT. “Pharmaceuticals and food in general are characterised by stable growth, which is significantly stronger in the emerging countries. Our acquisition of Kilian will enable us to extend the Romaco Group’s portfolio of machinery and services with an important new segment in solid dose applications, giving a crucial boost to our growth strategy.”
Romaco Group, a leading global supplier of processing and packaging equipment, has production sites in Germany, Switzerland and Italy as well as Sales & Service Centres in the US, Spain and Brazil. Cologne-based Kilian, a leading international supplier of tablet press machines, will be a sister company of the Romaco.
“Kilian and the Romaco Group complement one another perfectly in terms of their technology profiles and markets. In purchasing Kilian, IPPT has taken another big step towards realising the Group’s strategy. In the long term, the aim is to further develop Romaco’s core competencies with DBAG’s support”, added Wolf-Dieter Baumann, chairman of IPPT. Air Zoom Pegasus 34 Leather