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In 1935, the German-American Petroleum Company was the market leader in Germany among the Big Five petrol station chains. The DAPG operated a refinery in Bremen, Berlin, Cologne and Regensburg. Furthermore, from 1938 onwards there were holdings in Hydrierwerke Pölitz AG in Pölitz near Stettin (together with IG Farben and Rhenania-Ossag).
After falling share prices, and a failed share buy back scheme, it was found that the directors had used fraudulent accounting methods to push up the stock price. Rebranded MCI, it emerged from bankruptcy in 2004 and the assets were bought by Verizon. Parmalat: Italy: 24 Dec 2003: Food: The company's finance directors concealed large debts. MG ...
One worker was killed and four workers were injured. Langenberg, Germany September 2, 1996: Guyed steel lattice mast 160 Maintenance KXTX-TV Tower Cedar Hill, Texas: October 12, 1996: Guyed steel tower 468 Maintenance for DTV install Three died when tower collapsed after a gin pole ran off its track and snapped a guy wire Grigoriopol ...
Five people have been killed and dozens of emergency workers were injured as a spate of incidents involving fireworks marred New Year’s Eve celebrations in Germany. Despite calls for a ...
I.G. Farben was originally formed in 1925 from the merger of Bayer and five other German companies, and by the onset of World War II was central to Germany’s war production effort.
At a wood mill two workers were killed and 20 others injured in a fire and explosion. A combustible dust environment led to the explosion and fire. [89] November 8, 2012: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Two people died and 19 were injured in an industrial processing plant belonging to Neptune Technologies & Bioressources, a manufacturer of health ...
IG Metall said the walkouts were the first large-scale strikes Volkswagen had faced since 2018, when 50,000 workers idled plants over pay. Although the latest work stoppages will last only a few ...
An explosion occurred at Chempark, an industrial park for chemical factories in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on 27 July 2021, at 09:35 local time, sending a pall of smoke over the city. The city of Leverkusen stated that the explosion, which caused a fire, occurred in storage tanks for solvents.