Alent

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• Peter Hill, Chairman
• Steven Corbett, CEO

Electrical Engineering

The company Alent plc is a British company in the chemical and electrical engineering, with headquarters in Woking, England. The result is the company on December 18, 2012 from the elimination of the Performance Materials Division of the British conglomerate Cookson Group.

In 2012, the company generated £ 714 million in sales. Worldwide, more than 2,800 employees work for the company - including about 1,000 in Europe. Among the customers of Alent include many well-known corporations such as Apple, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Dell and LG.

Alent in Germany

The German headquarters of Alent is located in Langenfeld, between Cologne and Dusseldorf, and operates under the name Alent Germany GmbH. With approximately 350 employees, develops, manufactures and distributes specialty chemicals there (brand Enthone ) and electrical engineering ( brand alpha). Since the takeover of the company ORMECON in Ammersbek near Hamburg, is there the Nanoscience Center of the company.

Operations

The company Alent is represented on all continents. From its headquarters in Woking from the worldwide activities are directed. Also to be found on the European continent locations in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Hungary and Turkey.

In America, the company, along with the USA (New Jersey and Connecticut ), represented also in Mexico and Brazil.

As part of the " Asia - boom ", the company has also increasingly focused in recent years on these markets and built new manufacturing and development sites in Singapore, Japan and India.