Boral to sell North American building products business for $2.15 bln

The logo of Boral Ltd, Australia’s biggest supplier of construction materials and building products, adorns a wall in the foyer of their Sydney headquarters in Australia, November 21, 2016. REUTERS/David Gray

June 21 (Reuters) – Australia’s Boral Ltd (BLD.AX) on Monday said it has agreed to sell its North American building products business to a unit of NYSE-listed Westlake Chemical Corp (WLK.N) for $2.15 billion.

Reporting by Tejaswi Marthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Christopher Cushing

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