The British Oxygen Company (BOC) had a virtual monopoly on the supply of industrial gases (e.g. oxygen and acetylene) on the British market through the 1950s, when it was finally challenged by an American-based company, Air Products. Air Products Limited (APL) was able to undercut BOC's...

[eng] Abstract For the European chemical industry immediately after World War II, return to the status quo ante bellum was both unthinkable and undesirable. « Reconstruction » was therefore much less pressing than was « new construction » after 1945. The industry required fundamental...