Chemical companies are putting European assets up for sale as they review their operations in the region to cope with high energy prices and competition from newer plants in Asia and the Middle East.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire owner of petrochemicals group Ineos, has consistently warned that Britain’s chemical industry is heading for extinction because of high energy prices and carbon taxes.
“Die” is a bit harsh but stripped of their political influence and cut down to their bone, allowing the parts of these companies that are net negatives in terms of human survival to go under.