This article needs to be updated.(January 2023) |
SGX: UENV | |
Industry | |
Founded | 2003 |
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Owners | KKR (~30%, 2015) |
Website | UnitedEnvirotech.com |
United Envirotech, Ltd. (UE; [1] UEL) [2] is a company focused on environmental engineering and consulting. [1] Founded in 2003 by Lin Yucheng and Goh Ching Wah, [1] the company went public in 2004 and has been listed on the Singapore stock exchange (UENV) and traded in the United States and Germany. [3] [4]
In 2014 and 2015, news reports indicated that investment firms CITIC Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts were jointly seeking to acquire a controlling interest in the company through a newly created joint venture company, tentatively named "CKM". [5] [6]
As of 2015 [update] , investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts owned about 30% of the company based on stock holdings. [6]
As of 2023 [update] , its website stated that its major shareholders were CITIC Environment Investment Co Ltd, and China Reform Fund Envirotech Co., Ltd. [7]
As of 2015, the chairman and chief executive officer of the company was co-founder Lin Yucheng. [2]
According to its website in 2023, its executive chairman was Sun Lei. [8]
In 2015, UEL was reported to be constructing a 100,000 litre/day capacity industrial wastewater treatment facility to serve (and with investment from) a petrochemical industrial park situated at the start of the West–East Gas Pipeline in Luntai County, Xinjiang, China. [2]
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