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Business
Business roundup: March 2006
Akzo Nobel to spin off pharmaceuticals business Dutch drugs, paints and chemicals group Akzo Nobel is to split into two independent companies by spinning off its pharmaceuticals business. The first step will be a minority initial public offering (IPO) of its pharmaceuticals business, including Organon and Intervet, to ...
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Business
Business roundup: February 2006
Gazprom looks to UK Russian joint-stock company Gazprom’s chief executive Alexander Medvedev has announced ambitious plans to supply 20 per cent of the UK’s gas by 2015. One way to do this would be to buy an existing supplier, such as Scottish Power, he hinted in an interview with ...
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Business
Business roundup: January 2006
Explosion at UK oil terminal Reports of an explosion that tore through an oil storage terminal jointly owned by Total and Texaco could be overlooking significant health risks, says a leading combustion engineer. There were 36 reported casualties, only two of which were serious, and no reported deaths following the ...
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Business
Business roundup: December 2005
European parliament approves Reach The European parliament has secured backing for the long-awaited regulatory regime for Europe’s chemicals industry: registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (Reach). Reach was today approved in Strasbourg after a marathon vote on 1038 amendments. It was first published by the European Commission ...
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Business
Business roundup: November 2005
BASF: Asian shift won’t slow European growth Katharine Sanderson/ Ludwigshafen, Germany German chemicals giant BASF has announced plans to focus on expansion in Europe until 2015, and aims to double eastern European sales by 2010. The announcement came just days after the official opening of BASF’s ...