Solstice Advanced Mat Bets on AI Demand With $14.5B Element Solutions Deal

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Sat, July 11, 2026 astatine 8:02 AM CDT 6 min read

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• Solstice Advanced Materials agreed to bargain Element Solutions successful a cash-and-stock woody valued astatine astir $14.5 billion, with Element shareholders receiving $10 successful currency and 0.5 Solstice shares per share. The woody implies a 15% premium and is expected to adjacent successful the archetypal fractional of 2027, pending approvals.

• Solstice says the operation volition make a planetary precocious materials person positioned to payment from AI, precocious computing and information halfway demand, particularly successful semiconductor materials and thermal management. The merged institution is projected to person astir $6.8 cardinal successful 2025 nett income and $1.7 cardinal successful adjusted EBITDA.

• The institution expects more than $180 million successful annualized run-rate outgo synergies wrong 3 years, and sees the woody arsenic accretive to adjusted EPS successful twelvemonth one. Solstice besides plans to support leverage nether control, targeting nett leverage beneath 3x wrong 18 months aft closing.

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Solstice Advanced Mat (NASDAQ:SOLS) announced an statement to get Element Solutions successful a cash-and-stock transaction valued astatine astir $14.5 billion, including the presumption of nett debt, executives said connected a league telephone discussing the deal.

Under the presumption outlined by Solstice President and CEO David Sewell, Element Solutions shareholders volition person $10 successful currency and 0.5 shares of Solstice communal banal for each Element Solutions share. Sewell said the information represents a 15% premium to Element Solutions' closing terms connected Friday. Upon closing, Element Solutions shareholders are expected to ain astir 44% of the combined company.

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The combined institution volition run arsenic Solstice, with Sewell serving arsenic main enforcement officer. The committee volition see 11 directors, including Element Solutions CEO Ben Gliklich and 2 different designees from the Element Solutions board, taxable to modular governance procedures. Solstice said it has afloat committed financing successful spot and expects the transaction to adjacent successful the archetypal fractional of 2027, pending shareholder approvals from some companies, regulatory approvals and different customary closing conditions.

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Sewell said the transaction would make "a planetary precocious materials leader" with combined 2025 nett income of astir $6.8 cardinal and adjusted EBITDA of $1.7 billion. He said the combined concern would clasp starring positions crossed extremity markets and beryllium backed by much than 8,300 patents and pending applications.