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...But a lack of defences for their own industrial plants prompted an idea that has since taken on its own momentum: creating a Potemkin army....
...The company had made good progress with investments in plastics recycling and energy from waste services, he said....
...It later expanded further into chemicals, PVC pipes, irrigation equipment and other industrial supplies....
...Berry Global Group, the US plastic packaging company, is seeking to gatecrash the £3.3bn takeover of its UK competitor RPC by a private equity firm....
...Apollo’s monstrous rival Recycling and the science of plastics are not new concepts — they were explored in gory detail in Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein....
...RPC shareholders are nervous about the accounting debate, share price volatility and negative publicity about plastics....
...eliminate plastic waste in the ocean....
...This is the change that automakers and any number of other industrial companies face today. Currently, about 90 per cent of the value of an automobile lives in the hardware....
...The hardest hit sectors will be financial services, automotive, agriculture, food and drink, chemicals and plastics, says the study to be published on Monday by consultancy Oliver Wyman and the law firm...
...The demerger plan is essentially the same as it was before: DowDuPont will break into three companies, one making plastics and materials, one in agricultural chemicals and seeds, and one making a range of...
...The moves are intended to ease concerns that the materials science business would not be sufficiently focused on commodity plastics and materials....
...It is intended to be split within 18 months into three companies: one in plastics and related materials, one in agricultural chemicals and seeds, and one in other specialty chemicals....
...Dow and DuPont agreed to merge in late 2015 and announced a plan to break up the merged entity into three companies, one in plastics and related materials, one in agricultural chemicals and seeds, and the...
...Tuesday, 7pm: “Slough Industrial Estate? The prime minister? Nah,” says a taxi driver. It’s an understandable reaction: this is not a glamorous event....
...Shannon and FT commodities reporter Greg Meyer discuss their new article about Seed CX, which has “applied to a US regulator to become a trading venue for financial contracts on industrial hemp, the marijuana...
...The talks between two iconic US industrial groups come with the global agricultural chemicals industry in a state of upheaval....
...DuPont was first included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1924....
...Contrast this situation with a decade ago, when the outlook was grim for US manufacturing of bulk chemicals such as ethylene, used as a building block for a wide variety of products including plastics....
...DS Smith, a UK-based manufacturer of corrugated cardboard and plastic packaging, has agreed a €300m deal for Duropack, a Vienna-based packaging producer, as it seeks to accelerate its expansion into eastern...
...From a red puddle of liquid plastic, a three-dimensional sphere of connected hexagons and pentagons begins to rise, taking only six minutes to be lifted by mechanical arm into its final geometric form....
...Before the plant and a previous investment to recover the plastic waste in cars, the company was sending 500,000 tonnes to landfill....
...Mr Loeb accepts the argument that the petrochemical operations, from making intermediate materials such as ethylene down to specialist plastics, are an integrated business that needs to be left as a single...
...“I started by waiting, thinking I couldn’t spend money on a stupid game,” says one well-paid executive of a Swedish industrial company. “But it gnawed away at me until I gave in....
...Almost five years after paying €1.3bn for Klöckner Pentaplast, a German plastics and packaging company, private equity group Blackstone wrote its €220m in equity to zero and handed control of the company...
...The move to sell the unit follows the $360m sale of Rexam’s plastic lid-making business in 2011....
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