DRINKS PACKAGING RECYCLING MACHINE COMPANY FAILS TO OVERTURN 24 MILLION EURO FINE
September 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NORWEGIAN company dominating European markets for high-end automatic can and bottle recovery machines for recycling programmes has failed to persuade European judges to reduce or annul a Euro 24 million fine. The Tomra group was penalised by the European Commission in 2006 for illegally pushing competitors out of the market for its equipment in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Norway from 1998 to 2002. This happened, said Brussels, through "exclusivity agreements, individualised quantity commitments and individualised ...
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