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Obama brokers a climate deal, doesn't satisfy all- Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall target for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Gerresheimer Sells Technical Plastics Business
The Technical Plastics business has so far been part of Gerresheimer
Wilden GmbH. Complex injection-molded plastic components for the automobile
industry are manufactured by around 430 employees at plants in
The purchaser is a company in the FBH Group, Bad Soden, to which Thermoplast Technik Beteiligungs-AG, a medium-sized manufacturer of injection-molded parts, belongs. Components for the autoÂÂmobile industry are manufactured in five production plants. Through the sale, FBH will expand its plant network and existing product range.
The purchase price including the debts taken over amounts to
About Gerresheimer
Gerresheimer employs around 10,000 people in 40 locations in
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