PARIS - French oil major Total said Friday it had sold its specialty chemicals unit Atotech that serves the electronics and metals industries to the US investment fund Carlyle for $3.2 billion (2.9 billion euros).

No date was given for the closure of the deal, which is part of Total’s efforts to sell off $10 billion in assets between 2015 and 2017 as it adjusts to crude prices at half their levels of mid-2014.

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