Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Alpla Holding GmbH; TEXPLAST GmbH; PET Recycling Team Wolfen GmbH
BWB/Z-5898
On 07.03.2022 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Alpla Holding GmbH, Hard, Austria, contemplates to (indirectly) acquire all the shares in Texplast GmbH, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany and the (indirect) acquisition of 50 % of the remaining shares in PET Recycling Team Wolfen GmbH, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, which it does not already own.
Affected industry: Manufacture of plastics in primary forms
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 04.04.2022.
Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.
Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.
Non-prohibition of the merger
The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 05.04.2022 .