Following the approval, Messer will entirely hold Buse Gaz assets through Messer Romania Gaz and Messer Belgium subsidiaries.
The Romanian antitrust watchdog assessed the economic concentration operation in terms of its compatibility with the normal competitive environment and found it poses no significant obstacles in terms of actual competition on the Romanian market, or on a significant part of it, especially by creating or consolidating a dominant position.
Messer Group, whose expertise in industrial gases spans more than 100 years, manufactures and supplies oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, inert welding gases, special gases, gases for medicinal use and a wide variety of gas mixtures.
The group entered the Romanian market mid-1990, with the first deliveries of industrial gases to customers through industrial gases supply installations.
Buse Gaz SRL operates in the industrial gases sector, especially on the markets of industrial gases supply in gas cylinders or in bulk.