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appliance maker Midea <000333.SZ> launched its offer for Kuka in
May, the biggest Chinese deal for a German industrial technology
company.
Kuka said on Thursday its takeover by Midea needed the approval
of the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
"The sale of the Systems US-Aerospace-Business is a crucial
prerequisite to obtain these approvals," it said.
There have been growing objections in Germany and the United
States to China buying up firms with strategic technologies
abroad without allowing reciprocal transactions at home. The
U.S. earlier this month blocked a deal for a Chinese buyer to
take over German chip equipment maker Aixtron <AIXGn.DE>.
Kuka's Systems Aerospace business focuses on tooling and the
automation of assembly processes such as drilling and riveting
for aircraft manufacturing.
(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; editing by Susan Thomas)
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