Brussels, Belgium, February 14, 2022

Merodis, an independent corporate finance advisory firm, is pleased to announce it has successfully advised the shareholders of Vanéflon NV on the sale to a private investor. Vanéflon’s new owner will take up an operational role with the long-term ambition to keep further developing the company.

Vanéflon is a leading manufacturer of high-performance plastics and engineering polymer components and materials for critical applications such as seals, gaskets, rings, expansion joints, disks and liners for valves, bellows etc.

With over 40 years of experience in processing fluorine and other high-performance plastics in Belgium, Vanéflon has become a trusted and reliable partner for blue-chip companies active in the chemical industry, food & beverage sector, life science, mechanical engineering, automotive, aerospace, sealing and oil & gas industry in Europe. Its product portfolio includes high-end semi-finished plastics, specifically engineered machined plastic components, as well as coated disks and PTFE liners for butterfly valves, PTFE bellows and diaphragms, V-manschetten, PTFE-backup rings, Vitoflon O-Rings, Silicoflon O-Rings, PTFE steel lined gaskets and PTFE-envelopes as well as certain proprietary products like Vanéflex® expansion joints and Dynaflon® O-Rings.

Thanks to its production sites strategically located in Hamme (Belgium) in an industrial zone, easily accessible by car, at 30 km from the Port of Antwerp and at less than 50 km from Brussels Airport, Vanéflon manages to service clients in over 30 countries, mostly located in Europe. The most important countries for Vanéflon are Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Belgium.

Vanéflon stands for the highest and consistent quality, excellent customer service, outstanding technical support and superior delivery reliability.

The company employs c. 50 FTEs and its turnover should reach around EUR 10m this year.

For more information, please contact:

Rodolphe Blondiau
rbl@merodis.com, +32 488 81 45 07
Steven Meuldermans
sme@merodis.com, +32 494 57 36 98