Brussels, 03/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday the European Commission decided to fine seven companies €388.128 million for bleaching chemicals cartels. Nine companies exchanged commercially important and confidential information, limited production, allocated market shares and customers and fixed and monitored (target) prices of HP and PBS in the European Economic Area (EEA) between 1994 and 2000. Two of these companies escaped fines: Degussa would have been fined if it had not...