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Report No. : |
328989 |
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Report Date : |
26.06.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
ARIZONA CHEMICAL COMPANY, LLC |
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Registered Office : |
4600 Touchton Road East, Ste 1200 Jacksonville, FL 32245 |
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Country : |
United States |
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Date of Incorporation : |
08.02.1930 |
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Legal Form : |
LLC |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is a bio-refiner of pine chemicals for adhesives, printing inks
and coatings, roadmarking, tires and rubber, personal care, lubricants, fuel
additives, mining, oleochemicals, bio-energy, chemical intermediates, and
consumer products markets worldwide. |
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No. of Employees : |
1,300 |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
Ba |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No Complaints |
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Litigation : |
Clear |
NOTES:
Any query related to this report can be made
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while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31, 2015
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2014) |
Current Rating (31.03.2015) |
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United States |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
D |
UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC
OVERVIEW
The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $54,800. In 2014, however, US GDP ran second to China’s, when compared on a Purchasing Power Parity basis; the US lost the top spot, where it had stood for more than a century. In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment; their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the returns to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income. Imported oil accounts for nearly 55% of US consumption. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the United States into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, making this the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression.
To help stabilize financial markets, in October 2008 the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009 the US Congress passed and President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the federal government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through 2014, the direct costs of the wars totaled more than $1.5 trillion, according to US Government figures. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries. In March 2010, President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million American citizens by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on health care - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010. In July 2010, the president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight. In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. In late 2013, the Fed announced that it would begin scaling back long-term bond purchases to $75 billion per month in January 2014 and reduce them further as conditions warranted; the Fed ended the purchases during the summer of 2014. Long-term problems include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.
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Source
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Company name: ARIZONA CHEMICAL COMPANY, LLC
Address: 4600 Touchton Road East, Ste 1200
Jacksonville, FL 32245 - USA
Telephone: +1
904-928-8700
Fax: +1 904-928-8779
Website: www.arizonalchemical.com
Corporate ID#: 0276819
State: Delaware
Judicial form: LLC
Date incorporated: February
8, 1930
Stock value: A
LCC has no stock
Name of manager: Cornelis
VERHAAR
Business:
Arizona Chemical Company, LLC is a bio-refiner of pine chemicals for
adhesives, printing inks and coatings, roadmarking, tires and rubber, personal
care, lubricants, fuel additives, mining, oleochemicals, bio-energy, chemical
intermediates, and consumer products markets worldwide.
It refines and upgrades crude tall oil and crude sulphate turpentine
which are co-products of the wood pulping process to produce paper.
The company offers adhesive resins, such as rosin esters, terpene
phenolic resins, styrenated terpene resins, AMS, AMS phenolic resins, and hot
melt polyamides; chemical intermediates that include tall oil based acids,
polyamides, and fatty amines; gellants; refinery products, including tall oil
fatty acids, distilled tall oils, tall oil rosins, and crude sulphate
turpentine derived products; and roadmarking, coating, and ink resins.
It serves customers directly, as well as through a network of agents and
distributors.
The company was founded in 1930 and is based in Jacksonville, Florida with
an additional office in Almere, the Netherlands.
It has a network of sales offices worldwide; manufacturing plants in the
United States and Europe; and research and development facilities in Savannah,
Georgia, and Almere.
Office of the Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC):
The company is not listed on the OFAC list.
The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of OFAC
which lists individuals and organizations with whom United States citizens and
permanent residents are prohibited from doing business.
EIN: 13-0445587
Staff: 1,300
Operations & branches:
At the headquarters, we
find the corporate office, on lease.
The Company maintains
manufacturing facilities located:
875 Harger Street
Dover, OH 44622
2 Everitt Ave
Panama City, FL 32401
411 S. Pace Blvd.
Pensacola, FL 32501
1201 W. Lathrop Ave. Gate C
Savannah, GA 31415
and a distribution center:
2490 Commerce Drive
Marianna, FL 32446
Shareholders:
AZ CHEM US, INC.
4600 Touchton Road East, Ste 1200, Jacksonville, FL 32245
AZ CHEM US, INC. operates as a subsidiary of Arizona Chem Sweden
Holdings AB.
Management:
Cornelis VERHAAR is the President, CEO and Manager.
Mr. Verhaar serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Arizona
Chemical Company, LLC. Mr. Verhaar's experience includes nearly 30 years in
executive leadership in the global chemical industry, most recently as
Executive Vice President of Hexion Specialty Chemicals, where he was
responsible for Arizona Chemical Company, LLC's epoxy and coating resins business.
Prior to joining Hexion in 2006, he served senior management positions at
companies that included Noveon, Inc, Johnson Polymer, DeVoe Coatings, and ESHA
Group. Mr. Verhaar received his Masters in Economics from the University of
Amsterdam.
Frederic JUNG is Vice President, CFO and Manager
Mr. Frederic Jung serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Vice
President of Arizona Chemical Company, LLC. Mr. Jung joined Arizona Chemical in
December 2008. He served as Controller of Nalco Holding Co. from July 1, 2005
to November 11, 2008 and also served as its Principal Accounting Officer.
Mr. Jung served as Controller of Nalco Holdings Llc and Nalco Finance
Holdings Llc. Prior to joining Nalco, he held several positions with Bombardier
Aerospace, Waste Management, Inc. and SAE Americas, Inc. From 2005 to 2008, he
served as Corporate Controller of Nalco Company.
Mr. Jung served as the Chief Financial Officer of Nalco Europe B.V of
Nalco Holding Co. from January 1, 2002 to June 30, 2005. Previously, Mr. Jung served
as an Assistant Controller of Mergers and Acquisitions of Nalco Company.
Mr. Jung holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the
University of Connecticut and Master of Arts in Finance degree from the Ecole
Superieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquees in Paris, France.
Subsidiaries and
partnership:
ARIZONA CHEMICAL LTD
Vigo Lane
Chester-le-Street, DH3 2RB
United Kingdom
ARIZONA CHEMICAL S.A.S.
262 rue Jean-Jaures
Niort, 79000
France
ARIZONA CHEMICAL GmbH
Bahrenfelder Strasse 244
Hamburg, 22765
Germany
and others.
In United States, privately
held corporations are not required to publish any financials.
On a direct call, a
financial assistant controlled the present report.
Sales declared for year
2014 is in the range of USD 300,000,000=
The business is profitable.
Banks: JPMorgan Chase Bank
Legal filings
& complaints:
As of today date, there is no legal filing pending with the Courts.
Secured debts
summary (UCC):
None (in Florida)
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
Rs.63.61 |
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1 |
Rs.99.79 |
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Euro |
1 |
Rs.71.17 |
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Analysis Done by
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KAR |
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Report Prepared
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NIT |
RATING EXPLANATIONS
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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>86 |
Aaa |
Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest
capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums |
Unlimited |
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71-85 |
Aa |
Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction.
It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and
principal sums |
Large |
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56-70 |
A |
Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable
factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of
interest and principal sums |
Fairly Large |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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11-25 |
Ca |
Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums
in default or expected to be in default upon maturity |
Limited with
full security |
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<10 |
C |
Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised |
Credit not
recommended |
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NB |
New Business |
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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s
credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated
from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of
this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated
through %) are as follows:
Financial
condition (40%) Ownership
background (20%) Payment
record (10%)
Credit history
(10%) Market trend (10%) Operational size
(10%)
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