Monday, May 31, 2010

Covidien announces agreement to sell Mallinckrodt Baker

USA & DUBLIN, IRELAND: Covidien, a leading global provider of healthcare products, recently announced a definitive agreement to sell its Specialty Chemicals business to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital, L.L.C. for a cash purchase price of $280 million.

Covidien's Specialty Chemicals business, headquartered in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, manufactures and markets high-purity chemicals and related products and services under two well-known and respected brand names, J.T.Baker and Mallinckrodt Laboratory Chemicals.

These products are widely used in research and quality control laboratories, microelectronics, environmental testing laboratories and universities, and for manufacturing in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other industrial markets.

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