To try to mitigate the European Commission's wariness about their planned joint venture, Switzerland's INEOS and Belgium's Solvay proposed, on 28 February, to sell several chemical plants in the sectors the executive finds problematic.
The Commission signalled competition problems on the markets for suspension polyvinyl chloride
The Commission has expressed concerns about the consequences of the merger, announced on 7 May 2013, which will combine the two firms' entire chlorvinyls businesses. On 5 November, the executive opened an in-depth probe…