24m euro Linde plant in Romania

German Linde AG Group will invest approximately 24 million euros on the Romanian market in order to build an air separation plant in Ramnicu Valcea, the representatives of Linde Gas Romania, a company part of the Linde AG Group say. Linde, one of the largest industrial gas suppliers in the Central and Eastern Europe has recently announced investment plans of about 100 million euros in expanding its operations in the region by building three factories in the Czech Republic and Romania. “The investment is worth about 24 million euros. The project is being implemented at the moment. The plant will become operational in the spring of 2005,” Frank Eichel, Linde Gaz Romania general manager told Ziarul Financiar. ZF