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...Going forward, the federal government has ordered that only Euro-V standard fuels can be imported. Elsewhere, banks have announced policies to end financing for coal-powered plants....
...Ilyas Khan, chief executive of Cambridge Quantum Computing, a start-up that is designing applications for the technology, suggests that one of the first sectors to benefit will be the chemicals industry....
...Schiller joins from Goldman, where he was a Frankfurt based managing partner and also the bank’s global co-head of chemicals. He will remain based in Frankfurt....
...It had been bought in 1980 by John du Pont, the chemical industry millionaire, sportsman and collector who kept it locked away in a vault....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...If the court rules in favour of fund shareholders, fees could drop in the industry....
...“We had monitored their security and timed it so we knew when they weren’t there,” said Mr Harrell....
...Hexion won a bidding war to buy Huntsman in July 2007 after topping an offer from Basell, a Netherlands-based chemicals industry rival....
...It is the final investment left from the private equity group’s £300m Fund V, which it raised in 1993....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
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