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...CO₂ is supplied to UK brewers and other businesses by industrial gas companies BOC, Nippon Gases and Air Liquide....
...CF restarted its Billingham operations in October after it came to an agreement with the UK government, and later signed a supply deal with industrial gas companies BOC, Nippon Gases and Air Liquide....
...The agreement enables US fertiliser group CF Industries to continue to supply industrial gas companies BOC, Nippon Gases and Air Liquide even while global gas prices remain high, said the Department for...
...BOC and Air Products....
...BOC, which is owned by Linde of Germany, supplies industrial gases to British Steel while Tarmac has a deal to buy slag waste from the smelting process....
...Disagreement has arisen with companies including BOC, which supplies industrial gases, and Singleton Birch, which provides limestone....
...In a previous stint as chairman, he turned the company around, selling non-core units and acquiring formerly British BOC. Profitability improved dramatically....
...Reitzle’s reputation for boardroom command took a knock this week when the Linde chairman failed to push through his plans to merge with US rival Praxair to create the world’s largest supplier of industrial gases...
...Wolfgang Büchele, chief executive of Linde, the German industrial gases group that owns BOC in Britain, told the Financial Times last month that he feared Brexit would be a “competitive disadvantage” as...
...This helped to cover the cost of the £8.2bn purchase earlier in 2006 of BOC, the British gases company that was one of Linde’s main competitors....
...The government also has its eyes on a handful of high profile companies, especially in tobacco (BAT, US-owned Zimbabwe Leaf Tobacco); consumer goods companies Nestlé and Unilever; and BOC Gases and dozens...
...The 69-year-old former chief executive of industrial gases group BOC, until it was bought by Germany’s Linde, will know the ropes as he has been a director of Schlumberger since 2003....
...Edwards also supplies vacuum pumps used to expel unwanted gases and contaminants at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border....
...Edwards was formerly part of the BOC gases group but is now owned by private equity companies CCMP and Unitas Capital....
...Edwards, part of the BOC gases group when it was bought by Germany’s Linde in 2006, is the world’s leading supplier of vacuum pumps used in industrial processes, such as semiconductor and flat panel screen...
...Edwards, part of the BOC gases group when it was bought by Germany’s Linde in 2006, is the world’s leading supplier of vacuum technology for industrial and scientific applications, such as semiconductor...
...In 2006, for example, during Linde’s €12bn takeover of BOC Group, the UK gases company asked Deutsche to step aside as its broker because of the German bank’s multiple roles in the transaction....
...BOC was always about gases but now we have a board that is really interested, passionate and engaged.”...
...BOC, the UK-based industrial gases group, found that its site was aiming at the wrong audience; it used to be pointed at investors, now it is serving customers....
...The largest deals included Linde’s acquisition of BOC group, the industrial gases company, for £8.2bn in March 2006 followed by BASF’s June acquisition of Engelhard, the US manufacturer of catalysts, for...
...And if BAA (whose takeover was classified by some as a private equity deal), then why not BOC, the industrial gases company recently acquired by German rival Linde, or JCB, the family-owned maker of construction...
...The chief executive of Linde, which bought BOC of the UK last year in an acquisition that transformed it from a conglomerate into the world’s largest industrial gases group, told workers in an e-mail: “I...
...And if BAA (whose takeover was classified by some as a private equity deal), then why not BOC, the industrial gases company acquired last year by German rival Linde, or JCB, the family-owned diggermaker?...
...’s pension fund when the industrial gases group was taken over by Linde of Germany....
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