Berlin/Dusseldorf/Frankfurt/Munich—Global law firm Dentons has advised Czechoslovak Group (CSG) on the acquisition of the nitrocellulose business related production facilities and the Walsrode industrial park in Lower Saxony Germany from the NYSE-listed company International Flavors & Fragrances Inc CSG was able to prevail in a bidding process and is expanding in the field of chemicals for the defense industry through the acquisition The acquisition is still subject to approval by the relevant antitrust authorities The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price The 1.7-square-kilometer industrial park is located near Walsrode and is home to several companies in the chemical industry and other sectors CSG is taking over the production of nitrocellulose and the industrial park itself has its own rail connection and a combined heat and power plant the company produced nitrocellulose exclusively for industrial purposes primarily serving customers in the coatings and printing inks sectors CSG plans to include and expand existing production capacities to also produce energetic nitrocellulose for the defense industry More than 350 people are employed in the parts of the Industrial Park Walsrode acquired by CSG CSG is a Czech industrial and defense group based in Prague that was founded in 2014 The company has subsidiaries in the Czech Republic CSG focuses on the security and defense industries Dentons (Berlin/Dusseldorf/Frankfurt/Munich) Corporate/M&A: Florian Breitreiner (Partner, Lead), Dr. Michael Heim (Counsel, Co-Lead), Alexander Reiner (Counsel), Maximilian Stanglmeier (Senior Associate Real Estate: Dirk-Reiner Voß (Partner), Dr. David Lange (Partner), Birte Klasmeier (Associate), Dr. Christoph Blotenberg (Associate Florian-Alexander Wesche (Partner), Katharina Rath (Counsel Employment: Dr. Philipp Byers (Partner, Munich), Frank Lenzen (Partner, Frankfurt), Kathrin Wenzel (Counsel Antitrust: Dr. Matthias Nordmann (Partner IT/IP/Data Protection: Christoph Zieger (Partner Redefining possibilities. 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For more information visit dentons.com florian.breitreiner@dentons.com michael.heim@dentons.com D +49 89 244408 480 Christine.Wolf@dentons.com Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and affiliates This website and its publications are not designed to provide legal or other advice and you should not take You will now be taken from the global Dentons website to the $redirectingsite website 大成 is a partnership law firm organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China and is Dentons' Preferred Law Firm in China with offices in more than 40 locations throughout China Dentons Group (a Swiss Verein) ("Dentons") is a separate international law firm with members and affiliates in more than 160 locations around the world please see dacheng.com/legal-notices or dentons.com/legal-notices a Slovak subsidiary of the Czechoslovak Group (CSG) has entered into a purchase agreement with US-based IFF to acquire its nitrocellulose business along with the associated plant and Walsrode Industrial Park in Lower Saxony The financial details of the transaction remain undisclosed has a long-standing reputation in the chemical industry and is home to several businesses CSG will take over the production of nitrocellulose at the site which includes facilities such as a railway siding and a cogeneration power plant the plant primarily produced nitrocellulose for industrial applications CSG plans to expand production to include energetic nitrocellulose This expansion will involve further investments and regulatory consultations the acquisition provides an opportunity to secure long-term prospects for the nitrocellulose business which is vital for both the ammunition industry and other sectors like printing and coatings The agreement between MSM Group and IFF was signed in early October with the transaction expected to be finalised by the first half of 2025 Marinov emphasised the strategic importance of this acquisition for NATO and EU security as Europe must avoid dependence on external suppliers for such critical materials He added that this move strengthens CSG’s role as a manufacturer in Germany a key economic partner of the Czech Republic Source: Czechoslovak Group (CSG) Cookie Policy Copyright © 2025 Defence Industry Europe | mady by: geekon.eu We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze how you use this website and provide the content and advertisements that are relevant to you These cookies will only be stored in your browser with your prior consent You can choose to enable or disable some or all of these cookies but disabling some of them 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akvizice podniku na výrobu nitrocelulózy přidruženého závodu a průmyslového parku Walsrode v německém Dolním Sasku CSG plánuje zachovat výrobu nitrocelulózy pro zákazníky v civilním sektoru zároveň chce ale rozšířit výrobu o tzv která je vstupní komoditou pro výrobu munice Průmyslový park o rozloze 1,7 kilometru čtverečního se nachází nedaleko Walsrode a má dlouholetou tradici Sídlí zde několik společností z chemického průmyslu a dalších oborů V rámci akvizice CSG přebírá výrobu nitrocelulózy i samotný průmyslový park který má například vlastní železniční vlečku a kogenerační elektrárnu Více než 350 zaměstnanců pracuje v částech průmyslového parku Walsrode získaných společností CSG V rámci IFF se zde vyráběla nitrocelulóza výhradně pro civilní průmysl CSG chce rozšířit produkci o energetickou nitrocelulózu vhodnou pro výrobu munice To si postupně vyžádá další investice v řádu několika miliard Kč a konzultace s příslušnými regulačními orgány říká: "Chemická výroba v průmyslovém parku Walsrode historicky zahrnovala i produkci pro vojenské účely kdy chemický průmysl v Evropě čelí vysokým cenám energií a náročné regulaci může výroba nitrocelulózy pro muniční průmysl zajistit firmám působícím v tomto oboru dlouhodobou perspektivu Energetická nitrocelulóza je strategicky důležitá pro bezpečnost zemí NATO a EU a jejich spojenců Evropa nesmí upadnout do závislosti na dovozu této strategické komodity protože je nezbytné mít jistotu dodávek i v případě krize." Po podpisu smluvní dokumentace mezi IFF a MSM Group na začátku října probíhají procesy vedoucí k vypořádání transakce které by se mělo uskutečnit v první polovině roku 2025 Jan Marinov dodává: "Bezpečnostní hrozbou pro země NATO a jejich spojence je nedostatečná evropská kapacita pro výrobu munice Proto již několik let usilovně pracujeme a investujeme stovky milionů eur do vytvoření vertikálně integrované výroby velkorážové munice v rámci skupiny CSG a to od vstupních komodit a polotovarů až po finální produkt Tato akvizice nás k tomuto cíli výrazně přiblížila Zároveň se díky němu stáváme výrobcem a zaměstnavatelem v Německu které je významnou zemí EU a je klíčovým ekonomickým partnerem České republiky." 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Wegner ’25 was announced as one of two German recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship last week, the University’s first from Germany in 10 years The Rhodes Trust annually awards highly competitive and fully funded scholarships to students for their postgraduate studies at Oxford University The honor is meant to build a group of scholars with exceptional potential to become “public-spirited leaders.” Wegner is Harvard’s second Rhodes Scholar this year, after Shahmir Aziz ’25 received the award last month The Trust has yet to award scholarships to applicants from the U.S An Economics concentrator in Currier House originally from Walsrode Wegner said hearing the news was “a huge weight” off her shoulders after the monthslong application process “As an international student and not-native English speaker creative writing definitely does not come naturally to me,” Wegner said “It was a lot of ups and downs at the start.” Wegner said that she held mock interviews with her thesis advisor ‘They’re probably not always going to remember what I was saying but they’re always going to remember how I make them feel,’” she said “So I just really focused on talking with a lot of passion.” Wegner spent 10 hours with the other finalists before the judges returned to announce the winners which was another girl from Germany,” Wegner said maybe I just didn't fit what they wanted.’” When she was announced as the second winner Wegner said she “was just sitting really quietly and just tears were coming down my face.” “I was honestly just happy that it worked out Wegner plans to continue focusing on digital health she said she was looking forward to a more “international perspective” than what she viewed as an American-focused curriculum at Harvard Her focus on healthcare technology was sparked by a “medical error” during surgery on her knee which left her unable to continue swimming — all because the doctor lacked her full medical history Wegner said she plans to use the first year to expand her technical skills in machine learning and learn how to build “ethical and fair algorithms.” In her second year she said hopes to apply these skills more specifically in the field of digital health “It’s such a long and introspective process that you really just have to believe in yourself You just have to believe that what you do matters,” she said Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. This story was adapted from an episode of New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast Outside/In “Our bird”—that’s what conservationists in New England call the Bicknell’s Thrush. Why do they love it so much? It’s not a particularly comely bird. It’s almost entirely indistinguishable from the much more common gray-cheeked thrush. It has a nice song but it’s about as endearing as any other song bird you might notice in the woods What gets the Bicknell’s thrush its moniker is simply that you can’t find it anywhere else “They’ve pigeonholed themselves into a pretty narrow ecological niche,” says Chris Rimmer director of executive director of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies a little research and conservation outfit that has taken up the challenge of trying to study and conserve the thrush That ecological niche is so small it’s almost comical. In the summer, the birds stick to “thick stands of stunted conifers on steep mountain slopes or near tree-line” according to the researcher that successfully argued the bird should be considered its own species That means we’re talking about a handful of weather-beaten high mountain peaks in the northeast of the U.S and nearly all of them head to the same place Rimmer says that somewhere around 90 percent of Bicknell’s thrushes spend the winter in wet forests in the interior of the Dominican Republic the Bicknell’s thrush is a specialist: on both ends of its range it lives only in a very narrow band of habitats They don’t seem to know how to live anywhere else “If these habitats disappear from our mountain tops,” explains Rimmer “I don’t think the birds are going to just find a different place to go.” one nobody seems to call “our bird,” though it has its aficionados: the turkey vulture “I think turkey vultures are just about a perfect creature,” says Katie Fallon author of Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird They’re even on islands … Caribbean Islands … the Falkland Islands They’re a bird that can be seen by almost everyone in the hemisphere.” their heart-rate is nearly the same as when they are sleeping which has even led some to suggest turkey vultures might actually take quick naps while flying This is just one of the many delightful facts about these birds: My personal favorite is that their stomachs are acidic enough that it can neutralize cholera When you add these various evolutionary talents up you get an animal that is poised for success in virtually any habitat; basically and any one of them will loosely either fit the profile of a generalist or a specialist What is newly true is that species are disappearing at an alarming rate and many scientists believe we’re seeing the beginnings of something that will eventually be recognized as a mass extinction event And the problem is that these extinctions are not distributed equally “There’s really a striking common pattern that specialist species are declining everywhere,” explains Romaine Julliard, a researcher with the National Museum for Natural History in Paris who co-authored a paper on the subject with the striking sub-title: toward a global functional homogenization He say he found the decline “in coral fish But what’s intriguing about the trend is that the decline of specialists is “almost balanced by the increase in population size of generalist species.” Julliard has studied European birds and he found that while the abundance of specialist birds has declined 20 percent numbers of generalists has increased by 20 to 25 percent Roadkill on our highways has created what amounts to a massive network of turkey vulture smorgasbords Because the black asphalt absorbs and re-radiates heat during the day these serpentine buffets also act as a ready source of thermal updrafts for the birds to surf along spreading their ever-growing population to every nook and cranny of the hemisphere Fallon says that 25 years ago the birds were estimated to number around 5 million but today that number has risen to nearly 20 million worldwide This is the current trajectory we are on: The beautiful finely tuned specialists hyperefficient little motors built to extract calories from their own very marvels of flexibility and adaptation in their own right—are ascendant rising to fill the space that’s left behind small animals are at risk because we are destroying the places they live Julliard has a reminder for me: “Evolution is really a force that drives to specialization and to differentiation,” he says Pointing out that just as soon as we stop doing all the things that make life hard on them the specialists will start to thrive again speciation of new specialists will start to pick up again This reassurance is thanks to one of the tenets of ecological niche theory: In a stable habitat Which means “you need really a very high pressure to maintain this homogenization,” he says The problem, of course, is that the time-scales involved are deeply out of whack with our human experience. The world can recover from a whole heck of a lot and the world we’ll inhabit in the meantime will be a deeply impoverished one in comparison who knows if we’ll even be around to watch the birds that repopulate that sky Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times ChemSpec is a member of the Paris-based SAFIC-ALCAN family of companies May 31 (UPI) -- A pelican in Germany was caught on camera having a frustrating time trying to turn a particularly "lively" fish into a meal described as "particularly lively" by the uploader flops around inside the pelican's beak and even makes it back into the water before being grabbed back into the bird's clutches The fish continues to struggle against the pelican's attempts to swallow it and eventually makes it back into the water It was unclear from the video whether the fish was eventually consumed or if it escaped Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open You are visiting us because we have something you value Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism An account is an optional way to support the work we do. Find out more. MANY DIFFERENT THEORIES exist as to why the shape of bird eggs varies so much across species – now, new research yields evidence that variable egg shape is driven by unique flight adaptations. The results counter theories suggesting that life history or nesting habitat are egg shape’s key drivers. Ideas about egg shape have been numerous and vast in scope; among them is the theory that cliff-nesting birds lay more cone-shaped eggs – which would roll in a tight circle, when moving, so as to not tumble off the cliff. Another theory suggests that different egg shapes exist to maximize incubation efficiency in a clutch. Researcher Mary Caswell Stoddard aimed to resolve this debate by analyzing the shape of 49,175 eggs; representing about 1,400 species in 37 orders, two of which are extinct. The eggs were categorized based on their asymmetry and/or ellipticity (oval-shaped). As well, a wealth of biometric, life history and environmental parameters for all species were analyzed. The team used biometric measurements from museum specimens to calculate the hand-wing index (HWI), a standard proxy for flight efficiency and dispersal ability in birds. They found that egg shape is not related to clutch size, developmental mode, environmental factors, or nest characteristics – yet there was a correlation between egg shape and HWI. Given that HWI is positively related to flight efficiency, these results raise the intriguing possibility that adaptations for flight may be key drivers of egg shape variation in birds, the authors say. In a related Perspective Claire Spottiswoode, discussing how birds are streamlined for flight, suggests “perhaps streamlined birds need narrower eggs to negotiate their narrower pelvis, and because the only way to fit a chick into a narrower egg is to make the egg longer, elliptical or asymmetric eggs result.” To embed this post, copy the code below on your site Create an email alert based on the current article We have put together for you thecurious sights of Lüneburg Heath The Bison is a very typical animal inLüneburg Heath; at least in Essel, in the south. There is a whole bison herd in a pasture You cansee these mighty animals up close behind a secure fence every visitorgets a Wild West feeling right away Walking with llamas promotes deferenceand respect, says pedagogue Werner Schröder, who several times a month takes visitorson the walk with llamas. Or you can go across the countryside with alpacas from Lüneburg The Ginseng Gardens at Flora Farmin Walsrode is the only place in Europe where Korean ginseng has been grownfor more than 30 years. This medicinal plant used to be reserved only for kings;now you can go on ginseng tours and buy ginseng locally Iserhatsche - that's the mad one.So says the founder himself, the crazy visionary Uwe Schulz-Ebschbach, who hascreated a refuge of madness in Bispingen with his Iserhatsche. An artificialmountain, an ark, a bell-tree, its own volcano and a collection of hearses.Yes, Iserhatsche is bizarre,but really worth seeing Another regional product is chilli,which is also grown in Lüneburg Heath. At the Chilli Factory in Soltau youcan buy chilli products that are hand-processed What on earth is a Stoppomat? Road cyclists mayknow. The Stoppomat is a timepiece that records the departure time and arrivaltime of a cycling race. In Suderburg, there is the first Stoppomat circuit in northernGermany There is a special playground forbig boys in Munster – the German TankMuseum. Crammed with tanks and armoured vehicles it makes every former soldier'sheart jump a bit Upside down with a leaning tower and the water miracle withthe donkey The craziest photos in LüneburgHeath are taken at the Crazy Housein Bispingen. That’s because everything here is upside down. The house, theequipment, the toilets. You can walk through the House and the illusion willmake you feel upside down It is not only Pisa that has aleaning tower – Lüneburg has one too And all thevisitors like to hear story of the builder and then broke his neck while celebrating in the pub Thanks to a donkey, Lüne Abbey in Lüneburg is whereit is today. And the donkey also saved all the Benedictine nuns fromstarvation. 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