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Celanese acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Celanese bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Celanese’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 name no acquisition or sale of a business.

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31$178 million$106 million
2017-12-31$269 million$128 million
2018-12-31$144 million$84 million
2019-12-31$91 million$29 million
2020-12-31$100 million$30 million
2021-12-31$1.14 billion$301 million
2022-12-31$10.59 billion$5.78 billion
2023-12-31−$52 million$107 million
2024-12-31$0—
2025-12-31$0—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Celanese’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-24. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.