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Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. Announces Anticipated Timing for Acquisition of Arizona Chemical Company

HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. (NYSE: KRA) announced today that its current expectation is that it will consummate the previously announced acquisition of Arizona Chemical Company in early January 2016. The Company expects the financing in connection with the acquisition to be at a cost consistent with that previously announced and that it therefore will be at a cost consistent with that assumed in the Company’s cash flow projections as presented when Kraton announced the transaction on September 28, 2015.

About Kraton Corporation

Kraton Corporation is a leading global producer of specialty polymers and high-value performance products derived from renewable resources. Kraton’s polymers are used in a wide range of applications, including adhesives, coatings, consumer and personal care products, sealants, and lubricants, and medical, packaging, automotive, paving, and roofing products. As the largest global provider in the pine chemicals industry, the company’s pine-based specialty products are sold into adhesive, road and construction, and tire markets, and it produces and sells a broad range of performance chemicals into markets that include fuel additives, oilfield chemicals, coatings, metalworking fluids and lubricants, inks, and mining. Kraton offers its products to a diverse customer base in over 70 countries worldwide.

*Kraton, the Kraton logo, and design are all trademarks of Kraton Corporation, or its subsidiaries or affiliates, in one or more, but not all countries.

SOURCE: Kraton Corporation

Media Contact: newsroom@kraton.com

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