DYEWORKS AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, AMALGAMATION OF. The company known as I. G. Far benindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, founded Dec. 2, 1925, embodies the amalgamation of the German tar dye factories (Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, Ludwigshafen, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedr. Bayer & Co., Leverkusen, Farbwerke vormals Meister Lucius & Bruning, Hoechst, Aktiengesellschaft fur Anilinf abrik ation Berlin, Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron, Frankfort-on Main, and Chemische Fabriken vorm. Weilerter Meer, Uerdingen Rhine). It is the largest German chemical industry undertaking and has absorbed other concerns. The company's object is the production and sale of dye-stuffs, pharmaceutical and photo graphic articles, artificial silks, rich materials, metals, nitrogen compounds, benzine and products from the liquefaction of coal and chemical products of all kinds, also the working of other indus trial undertakings. It is qualified to establish branches at home and abroad, to participate in other companies and undertakings and to take over wholly or partly their working. A working together in the United States of America was agreed to with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey with regard to the negotia tion of the mutual patents and processes in the territory of the refining of crude oil. The company works with the Norsk Hydro Elektrisk Kvaelstofaktieselskab, Oslo in the manufacture of nitro gen. At the end of 1927 a regulation of production and sale of dyes in accordance with standardised viewpoints was agreed with the French dye industry. In 1928 the company was amalgamated with the Ansco Photoproducts Inc., New York. The share capital of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft amounts to I,Ioo million Marks. Furthermore it has issued convertible Bonds up to an amount of 25o million Marks. (W. J.)