The North American industrial gas market will be all the stronger for Air Liquide’s merger with Airgas, Inc., says the latter’s new Vice-Chairman of the Board, Michael J. Graff.
Air Liquide completed the $13.4bn acquisition of Airgas on Monday, in a deal that all at once creates a new leader in the region and affirms its long-term growth potential.
North America is already home to what is comfortably the largest of the regional industrial gas markets, valued at just under $20bn in 2014 by gasworld Business Intelligence, and Air Liquide only sees this position strengthening in the future.
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