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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9035

27 September 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Investigation into Omya's acquisition of JM Huber's activities on production of minerals for paper industry

Brussels, 26/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the operation to acquire the activities of the American company JM Huber in the field of on-site production of precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) by the Swiss company Omya. "The markets which supply the European paper industry are complex and concentrated", said Commissioner Neelie Kroes in a press release, adding that "if competition was to fall off in this sector, this would lead to an...

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