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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition

ThyssenKrupp and Salzgitter can set up company

Brussels, 04/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has given the green light to a joint venture between ThyssenKrupp Technik and HSP Hoesch Spundwand und Profil, subsidiaries of German steel companies ThyssenKrupp and Salzgitter respectively. Renamed ThyssenKrupp Bautechnik, the joint venture will be active in world wide marketing and distribution of hot rolled piles and sheet piling produced by HSP and will take over ThyssenKrupp's former Bautechnik business comprising...

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