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Article

31 Jul 2013

Author:
Tom Mitchell & Henry Foy, Financial Times

BMW’s China joint venture hits speed bump

China’s environment ministry has criticised an application by BMW to double capacity at a joint venture factory in the country, citing insufficient investment in environmental protection measures at the facility...“Drinking polluted water while driving BMW sedans is certainly not the type of industrialisation we are looking forward to,”[he]...said...[A]ccording to an “opinion” posted on the environment ministry’s website, the joint venture submitted an “insufficient” environmental impact report and failed to meet government pollution reduction targets...[BMW] said the ministry had requested additional documents and details and that the application had not been rejected. “We have no signal that [the investment] will not be approved, but we are confident,”... [refers to GlaxoSmithKline, Volkswagen, Audi]