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Semiconductors
US chipmaker to build semiconductor plant in Germany
...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...
February 1, 2023
InterviewArchitecture
Norman Foster: ‘The older I get, the more I realise it’s not about the building but about the city’
...“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....
May 16, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
The Big Read
Germany’s new chip factories: a bet on the future or waste of money?
...Wolfspeed and ZF’s planned €2.5bn plant will produce silicon carbide chips, used in electric vehicles, solar cells and industrial hydraulic systems....
May 12, 2023
Semiconductors
STMicroelectronics to build chip plant in boost for EU supply chain
...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....
October 5, 2022
Markets InsightHenry Sanderson
Asia’s car battery sector leaves Europe in the slow lane
...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....
October 10, 2018
Property sector
JPMorgan plans to build massive HQ tower in New York’s Park Ave
...JPMorgan’s cramped 52-floor headquarters, built in 1958 and once occupied by Union Carbide, were an obvious candidate for a reboot....
February 21, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Indian society
The question of identity cards
...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....
May 3, 2018
Mergers & Acquisitions
Junk: A portrayal of Milken on Broadway Premium content
...Merkin muses at one point about raiding the rest of the Dow — he mentions GM, GE, Union Carbide, and Kodak....
October 13, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy — ‘compelling’
...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....
May 31, 2017
Personal & Household Goods
Video accusing Unilever over toxic waste in India goes viral
...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....
August 5, 2015
World6 min
Bhopal's industrial catastrophe refuses to die
...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....
November 8, 2014
World
Legal wrangles remain 30 years after Bhopal
...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”....
November 9, 2014
Letter
US courts confuse public opinion with justice
...In contrast to the actions of Union Carbide and the US government, the behaviour of both BP and the UK government is exemplary....
September 10, 2014
Victor Mallet
Notebook: When the wheels of India’s justice system stick
...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...
November 17, 2014
Indian society
India’s Common Man party oozes charisma on its poll mission
...Carbide disaster....
March 19, 2014
FT Live
Energy Transition Summit India
Delivering clean energy to capitalise on green opportunities
Tuesday, 8 OctoberNew Delhi, Delhi, India
Sales & Marketing
World Cup: High-profile sponsorship can be a boon – or backfire
...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...
September 23, 2013
Fund management
House of Morgan offers significant value, not cheap beta
...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...
October 6, 2013
LexUS & Canadian companies
Linde / Lincare
...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....
July 2, 2012
US & Canadian companies
Linde raises €1.4bn to fund Lincare buyout
July 10, 2012
Westminster blogJim Pickard
Tony Blair, the New York consultancy and Dow Chemicals
...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....
July 26, 2012
US & Canadian companies
Germany’s Linde to pay $4.6bn for Lincare
...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....
July 2, 2012
World
Olympics official resigns over sponsor
...In 2001 the company bought Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the accident....
January 26, 2012
Michael Skapinker
Don’t jump aboard the anti-Dow bandwagon
...Union Carbide then sold its Indian business to McLeod Russel, a local company, in 1994. The sale proceeds went to the Bhopal Hospital Trust....
February 1, 2012
UK economy
IOC joins Olympics boycott spat
...This sparked opposition from groups such as Amnesty International, because Dow now owns Union Carbide, whose Indian subsidiary was responsible for the gas leak....
November 25, 2011
UK economy
Jowell defends stance on Olympic sponsor
...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....
December 4, 2011

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