RIO TINTO BOUND ON ALUMINIUM SMELTING LICENSES
December 1st, 2012
BY KITTY SO
Rio Tinto Alcan has today been ordered to stop insisting companies licensing its Aluminium Pechiney smelting technology must also buy pot tending assembly handling equipment from its subsidiary Electrification Charpente Levage. The European Commission has accepted and made legally binding a Rio Tinto's promise to end the practice as a condition of lifting a threat of anti-trust fines in the European Union (EU). Brussels had feared that Rio Tinto was potentially dominating the aluminium smelter equipment market through its licensing system, damaging ...
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