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...A complex combination of factors on top of the overarching addition of greenhouse gases to atmosphere is accelerating ocean heating....
...Irving-based Vistra owns 18 natural gase, coal and nuclear-fuelled power plants in the Texas market accounting for almost 19 gigawatts of output....
...However, Air Liquide’s US subsidiary Airgas asked the court to ban Carlyle from “engaging in competition, or assisting any other party to compete” with its business, which supplies gases and welding equipment...
...His experiments into how gases could absorb heat anticipated the “greenhouse effect”....
...In the interim, some producers and merchants have hired more trains to move oil from North Dakota to distant refineries....
...The German merchant isolated it in 1669 from boiled-down urine, in the course of his alchemical adventures attempting to turn base metals into gold....
...It is one of the single biggest sources of greenhouse gases in both the US and Europe, for example, accounting for 20 to 25 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions....
...So that’s a very good sign,” added Mr Potier whose company is the world’s largest supplier of industrial gases by revenues, and which operates in more than 80 countries....
...Mr Collins said the longest process could be in the US, where it took some nine months for Air Liquide to receive approval to buy Airgas last year....
...Revolting stinking gases and liquids poured from the cadaver’s stomach on to sawdust where rats nibbled bits of human vertebrae....
...Together they would hold a 40 per cent share of the industrial gases market, giving them a clear edge over Air Liquide, which has a 28 per cent share after concluding a takeover of another competitor Airgas...
...Talks between the Munich-based group and US company come less than a year after France’s Air Liquide agreed to acquire Airgas, its American rival, for about $13.4bn....
...Elsewhere in the global chemicals sector, Air Liquide announced in November a $13.4bn deal for Airgas of the US, which would make the French company the world’s biggest supplier of industrial gases including...
...Linde for its part employs more than 65,000 workers and specialises in selling compressed and liquefied gases for use in steel and glass production; chemical and food processing; and welding among others...
...The quest to create the world's largest maker of industrial gases continues to run into road blocks....
...“The merchant business is not exciting: it is a little bit cumbersome, boring,” said Mr Potier. “[But] this is a simple, small but very, very efficient business.”...
...Pennsylvania-based Airgas, which distributes packaged gases and supplies associated products and services, derived more than 98 per cent of its revenue from the US last year....
...French rival Air Liquide is bulking up in the US by acquiring Airgas for $13.6bn in cash. Linde, rather than doubling down on industrial customers, is building its healthcare business....
...Airgas will also strengthen Air Liquide’s operations in the unglamorous but steady and cash-generative business of distributing gases in cylinders....
...On Thursday, Mr Justice Leonard jailed Jay Merchant, 45, the most senior of the bankers, for six-and-a-half years....
...But that changed after the industrial revolution, “as merchants saw the gains from technological progress and they became increasing influential”, Mr Frey says....
...The acquisition follows a failed $5.9 billion hostile bid for U.S. gas distributor Airgas Inc. (ARG) that ended in February 2011....
...Air Products, the US industrial gases company, has withdrawn its $5.9bn bid for Airgas after a Delaware court issued a ruling dismissing its efforts to overcome its rival’s anti-takeover protections, reports...
...The government has long criticised foreign banks – Barclays, Standard Chartered, South African-owned Stanbic and the Merchant Bank of Central Africa – for unduly conservative lending practices and their...
...Airgas delivers industrial and medical gases to small businesses while Air Products serves larger industrial customers in the metals and pharmaceutical sectors with gases such as argon and nitrogen through...
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