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Hickson International is selling its German and Dutch joinery coatings operations to Gilde Investment Management of the Netherlands for £9m. 14-Oct-1997 Yorkshire Electricity is planning a £30m combined heat and power plant at a Hickson International chemicals site in Yorkshire. 04-Sep-1997 Hickson International is merging its Ashwood Chemicals division in Yorkshire with its US-based DanChem business to create a new organic chemicals division which will also include Hickson & Welch. 10-Jun-1997 Warner Lambert has acquired PharmaChem, Hickson International's loss-making subsidiary, for £28m, thus completing the restructuring at Hickson. 02-May-1997 Hickson International has sold its Hickson Manro business to Broomco, a new company that includes some managers from Manro, for £26.5m, as part of its debt reduction programme. 19-Nov-1996 Hickson International, the speciality chemicals concern, says it will make a major disposal this year to cut debt. 03-Apr-1996 Hickson International is about to sell its South African speciality chemicals operation to a local consortium. 02-Mar-1996 Hickson International has sold Hickson Kerley, the US performance chemical operation, to Tessenderlo of Belgium. 03-Jan-1996 Hickson is still suffering from production problems at its Castleford plant where capacity utilisation is under 60%. 07-Nov-1995
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