Rio Tinto PLC Hydro terminates offer for aluminium assets
September 14 2018 - 7:35AM
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Rio Tinto PLC
14 September 2018
Hydro terminates offer for Rio Tinto aluminium assets
14 September 2018
Rio Tinto has been informed by Hydro that it has withdrawn its
offer to acquire the ISAL smelter in Iceland, its 53.3 per cent
share in the Aluchemie anode plant in the Netherlands and its 50
per cent share in the Aluminium fluoride plant in Sweden, announced
on 26 February 2018.
Following initial feedback from the European Commission (EC),
Hydro has withdrawn its EC merger filing and terminated the
transaction.
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