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...The factory, on the site of a decommissioned coal plant in the west German region of Saarland, will be built by the US semiconductor producer Wolfspeed and will produce silicon carbide chips for electric...
...“The materials of the Union Carbide Building were 98 per cent recycled to make way for a much more efficient new building. I don’t see a problem there....
...Wolfspeed and ZF’s planned €2.5bn plant will produce silicon carbide chips, used in electric vehicles, solar cells and industrial hydraulic systems....
...The factory will produce silicon carbide (SiC) substrate, used to make SiC chips, which are essential for a range of products from cars to industrial applications....
...At the time the Japanese multinational had a battery joint venture with Union Carbide of the US but because of the Bhopal disaster in India, Carbide sold the business....
...JPMorgan’s cramped 52-floor headquarters, built in 1958 and once occupied by Union Carbide, were an obvious candidate for a reboot....
...For 10 years I have represented in court the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster: the 1984 gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal....
...Merkin muses at one point about raiding the rest of the Dow — he mentions GM, GE, Union Carbide, and Kodak....
...Carbide Bhopal disaster of 1984, the struggle for Kashmiri independence, the plight of the adivasis (indigenous tribal peoples), matters of caste discrimination and feminist questions....
...In the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, an uncontrolled gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant killed at least 5,000 people immediately, and left others suffering chronic health problems....
...The abandoned and scarcely guarded Union Carbide site in the middle of Bhopal in central India remains a potential source of contamination for the city’s water table. Victor Mallet reports....
...Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 – more than 16 years after the gas leak – and says attempts to link it to a plant it never owned or operated are “misguided and wrong”....
...In contrast to the actions of Union Carbide and the US government, the behaviour of both BP and the UK government is exemplary....
...On the corporate front, unresolved Indian cases include three connected to Union Carbide, now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, over alleged groundwater contamination in Bhopal in the 1970s and the leak from...
...Carbide disaster....
...During the 2012 London Olympics, Dow Chemical was plagued by criticism for its association with the 1984 Bhopal tragedy, when a toxic gas leak killed thousands at a Union Carbide plant in India it later...
...Walking into the modernist offices of JPMorgan Asset Management in the former Union Carbide building on Park Avenue in New York, one can conclude that John Pierpont Morgan himself would approve of the way...
...Now, after a long spell under the Union Carbide umbrella and two decades of going it alone, Lincare is being acquired by Linde in a friendly $4.6bn deal. The union has strategic logic....
...Dow believes there is widespread misinformation about its link to Bhopal, which was owned by a subsidiary of Union Carbide when the tragedy occurred in 1984. Dow did not buy Union Carbide until 2001....
...Lincare, formerly known as Linde Homecare Medical Systems, was part of Linde until it was acquired by Union Carbide in 1917. It was later carved out of Union Carbide in 1987....
...In 2001 the company bought Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the accident....
...Union Carbide then sold its Indian business to McLeod Russel, a local company, in 1994. The sale proceeds went to the Bhopal Hospital Trust....
...This sparked opposition from groups such as Amnesty International, because Dow now owns Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the gas leak....
...Dow, which is also a global Olympic sponsor, has said legal claims were settled in 1989, before its acquisition of Union Carbide. Locog supports that view....
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