Air Liquide has entered into exclusive negotiations with French private equity firm Hivest Capital Partners for the divestment of its subsidiary CRYOPDP, a supplier of tailor-made life sciences and healthcare solutions.
The decision highlights Air Liquide’s strategy to regularly review its asset portfolio in order to focus on key businesses and geographies to maximise its performances.
The transaction is subject to the signature of a final and definite agreement between the two companies and will be carried out in the framework of the relevant social processes and ongoing dialogue with the employee representatives’ bodies.
By Molly Burgess
Source: Gasworld
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The quest to develop hydrogen as a clean energy source that could curb our dependence on fossil fuels may lead to an unexpected place — coal. A team of Penn State scientists found that coal may represent a potential way to store hydrogen gas, much like batteries store energy for future use, addressing a major hurdle in developing a clean energy supply chain.
WE Soda (London), a major producer of soda ash, said it intends to launch an IPO and apply to list its shares on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. The company, wholly owned by industrial conglomerate the Ciner Group (Istanbul, Turkey), said it is the world’s largest producer of natural soda ash.
