Synthetic rubber producers fined for price-fixing

摘要

FIVE syntnetic rubber producers have been fined by the European Commission for taking part in a price-fixing cartel,the total penalty constituting the second largest in the Commission's fight against restrictive trade practices.The companies penalised were Bayer,Germany:Dow,USA;Eni,Italy;Shell,Netherlands;Unipetrol,Czech Republic;and Trade-Stomil,Poland.They were between them fined more than euro519 million for fixing prices of butadiene and emulsion styrenc butadiene rubbers and exchanging information on customers from at least 1996 to 2002.