Fabrel Lotos and the Buss management acquire Buss

11 May 2006

After acquisition by Fabrel Lotos Zurich and the Buss management, Buss AG Pratteln (Switzerland) is once again an independent manufacturer of compounding and processing plants. A friendly separation agreement with retrospective effect to the start of the year terminated the company’s five-year membership of the Coperion Group, Stuttgart. Buss AG has annual sales of around CHF 60 million and currently employs 200 people. According to the company, strategic planning for the next few years is focussed on growth. The parties have agreed not to reveal the transaction price.

According to Buss its core strengths are customized product-specific processing solutions, in particular with highly demanding process technology and product quality requirements. The company’s latest innovation is the quantec® high-performance kneader, a development that triples the throughput of previous models without any increase in size – and retains the same high product quality.