Industri Kapital sets off auction of Dyno Nobel

Friday 24 June 2005 at 16:00

Industri Kapital, a Swedish private equity firm, is set to begin the auction for Dyno Nobel, the Norwegian explosives group it bought five years ago. The buy-out firm is set to make a profit of $300m (€248.8m) on the deal, according to sources close to the sale.

They said the auction will value the company at over $1.5bn.