Tribunal finds pipe manufacturers guilty of collusion

The Competition Tribunal has found Dawn Consolidated Holdings (DCH), through its subsidiary DPI Plastics, and Sangio Pipes guilty of colluding to divide markets in South Africa between 2007 and 2012. The Competition Commission referred the collusion case against the two manufacturers of regular high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes to the tribunal for adjudication in May 2015.