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BOC is to shed up to 57 of the 75 jobs at its bottled gas plant in Derby, in order to focus the site on providing services to the licensed trade and metal-cutting bottled gases to industry. 13-Sep-2006 BOC, the industrial gases group, is to be acquired by Linde of Germany for £8bn. 07-Mar-2006 BOC, the industrial gases group, has received a preliminary takeover approach from Linde of Germany. 26-Jan-2006 BOC Group has acquired G Van Dongen Holdings, the temperature-controlled transport operator with seven companies in the Netherlands and Spain, in order to expand its Gist division. 06-Sep-2005 BOC Gases is to shed 25 jobs at its depot in Derby, in order to consolidate its dissolved acetylene business in Bristol. 24-May-2005 BOC has sold its packaged gases business in the US to Airgas for up to £110m, including medical, industrial and speciality gases. 28-Jan-2004 BOC is to close its helium gas plant in Leeds over the next two years with the loss of 90 jobs, and production will be transferred to a new plant in the South. 18-Sep-2003 BOC Group is to acquire the Canadian packaged gas and related welding equipment business of Air Products for about £25m, including four filling plants and 25 branch locations. 12-Mar-2003 BOC has acquired Environmental Management Corporation, the US water services company, for £32m. 22-Oct-2002 BOC and Air Liquide of France are to combine their industrial and medical gas operations in Japan, creating a new group called Japan Air Gases. 05-Sep-2002 BOC has acquired the Polish subsidiary of Praxair for £33m, in order to expand its industrial gases business. 29-Aug-2002 BOC is to acquire the UK industrial gases business of Enron for about £10m, including compression facilities at a Teesside power plant. 06-Jun-2002 BOC is to acquire Unique Gas & Petrochemicals of Thailand for £31m, and is now planning to make further bolt-on acquisitions in Asia. 17-May-2002 BOC is to invest £70m in an industrial gases joint venture in Nanjing, China, with Sinopec YPC, which will involve the acquisition of three existing air separation units and the construction of a new facility. 10-Apr-2002 BOC has reached agreement to acquire Seiko Instruments' turbo molecular pumps business in Japan for about £70m. 06-Feb-2002 Smiths has sold four vacuum and pressure operations - including Stokes Vakuum, Hibon, Wilhelm Klein and Hick Hargreaves - to BOC Edwards for £13m. 17-Oct-2001 BOC is setting up a £5.3m micro cylinder plant in Leatherhead to produce gas cylinders for Powderject's needle-free injection system, with the creation of 25 jobs. 22-May-2001 BOC is planning to buy the remaining 45% of Osaka Sanso Kogyo, its Japanese industrial gases affiliate, for £87m. 04-Apr-2001 BOC is looking to spend up to £200m on acquisitions, and is particularly interested in medical and speciality gases. 09-Aug-2000 BOC, the industrial gases company, has abandoned an agreed £7.4bn takeover by Air Liquide of France and Air Products of the US, having failed to win approval from the Federal Trade Commission for a series of asset disposals in the US. 15-May-2000 BOC has agreed a £7.2bn joint takeover bid from Air Liquide of France and Air Products of the US, which will result in the group being broken up along geographical lines. 13-Jul-1999 BOC is considering a £7bn joint takeover offer from Air Liquide of France and Air Products of the US, which would involve Air Liquide controlling BOC's UK operations and most of its US business. 10-Jul-1999 BOC has rejected a joint takeover approach from Air Products of the US and Air Liquide of France. 22-Jun-1999 BOC is acquiring the chemical management division of FSI International of the US for £24m. 10-Jun-1999 John Menzies is to acquire BOC Cargo Services from BOC for £4.9m, in order to expand its airport services business. 04-Jun-1999 BOC is to acquire Hyundai's air separation and compression plants at the Asan Bay petrochemical complex in South Korea, and will take on a £300m supply contract with Hyundai. 28-May-1999 BOC is in merger discussions with Praxair of the US, which could lead to the creation of the world's largest industrial gases group. 11-May-1999 BOC is to acquire £19m of gas assets at the Asan Bay complex from Samsung General Chemicals, having agreed a long-term industrial gas supply contract with the South Korean group. 09-Apr-1999 BOC has agreed the sale of its German and Benelux gases operations to Air Liquide of France for £112m. 27-Nov-1998 BOC expects to announce the sale of its German and Benelux gas assets early next year, but other sites could be closed as no buyers have been found. 18-Nov-1998 BOC, the industrial gases company, has announced a worldwide restructuring programme in order to save £120m a year, which will result in 3,700 job cuts including 500 in the UK. 12-Aug-1998 BOC, the industrial gases concern, is planning a range of cost-cutting measures following a fall in profits, but is still looking for acquisitions in specialist markets such as bottled gases. 13-May-1998 BOC Gases is planning to build a £40m gas plant at Margam in South Wales, in order to supply oxygen to British Steel's steel products plant at Port Talbot. 07-Feb-1998 BOC has sold its Ohmeda healthcare business for a total £640m, with the medical systems division going to Instrumentarium of Finland, medical devices going to Becton Dickinson of the US, and the pharmaceutical division going to Baxter of the US. 30-Jan-1998 BOC, the industrial gases group, has won shareholder approval to use the proceeds from the planned sale of its Ohmeda healthcare business to buy back shares, and negotiations for the sale are now at an advanced stage. 17-Jan-1998 BOC is planning to build up its industrial gases business by investing in its factories, and does not expect to make any more acquisitions or disposals. 19-Nov-1997 Smiths Industries has indicated that it would be interested in acquiring the medical devices business of BOC's Ohmeda healthcare subsidiary. 16-Oct-1997 A consortium led by BOC has won a £610m contract to build the world's largest nitrogen generation complex for Pemex, the Mexican national oil company. 13-Oct-1997 Marks & Spencer and BOC Distribution Services have introduced a fleet of 10 heavy goods vehicles powered by liquefied natural gas which will be used to deliver food to London stores. 09-Oct-1997 BOC is to merge its two divisions that sell gases and vacuum pumps to the semiconductor industry in order to increase sales to US and east Asian customers. 07-Oct-1997 BOC has announced an agreement with Joseph Company of California to collaborate on the development of a self-chilling drinks can that uses recycled carbon dioxide. 26-Sep-1997 BOC has won a £30m contract to build and operate an air separation unit and liquefaction plant for Zaklady Azotowe Kedzierzyn in Poland. 28-Jul-1997 BOC is planning to sell Ohmeda, its anaesthetic gases business thought to be worth up to £1bn, in order to raise funds to expand its core industrial gases business. 24-Jul-1997 BOC has started work on a new £40m air separation plant at Teesside, which will supply oxygen and nitrogen to British Steel. 06-May-1997 BOC is launching a liquid form of air, which will be the first cryogen that allows people to breathe normally. 31-Jan-1997 BOC is acquiring a controlling stake in the Volgograd Oxygen Factory in Russia. 16-Jul-1996 BOC has signed deals with both Baxter and Mova to boost North American sales of its anaesthetics. 06-Oct-1995
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