Article: Marinette chemical firm gets new owner, name

SpecialtyChem Products Corp., Marinette, has been renamed ChemDesign Products Inc. after almost all of its assets were purchased by Resilience Capital Partners, it was announced Friday.

Resilience is a private equity firm based in Cleveland. In June, it agreed to pay about $7 million for the assets as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization of Specialty.

Friday, Resilience announced the deal had been closed.

ChemDesign makes specialty chemicals for industrial use, one of the largest independent such concerns in North America. Sales are about $20 million annually, according to President Dave Mielke. The company was begun in 1983.

Mielke has been with the company since 1989 and became ...

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