Tyczka Energy

Tyczka Energy GmbH is a German supplier of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and industrial gases, operating as part of the Tyczka Group, a holding company based in the Landkreis Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria. The group traces its origins to the Georg Tyczka Sauerstoffwerk, founded in Görlitz in 1924 by Georg Tyczka. Over the following decades the family business expanded from oxygen production into liquefied gas distribution, industrial gases and, more recently, hydrogen. The Tyczka Energy brand itself emerged in 2017 when the group acquired Total Deutschland's 50 percent stake in the joint venture Tyczka Totalgaz and renamed the business Tyczka Energy GmbH. Today the Tyczka Group operates through eight subsidiaries and one affiliated company in Germany, Austria and Poland. Its industrial gases division offers technical services, application consulting and on-site supply systems, and distributes technical gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, acetylene, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, specialty gases and refrigerants. The hydrogen division, organised under Tyczka Hydrogen GmbH founded in 2021, covers hydrogen production, compression and filling, transport and logistics, as well as refuelling and application technology. In the 2023 financial year the group generated revenue of EUR 437 million and employed 614 people. Tyczka Energy's history includes a significant antitrust episode: at the end of 2007, Tyczka Energie and Tyczka Totalgaz were among seven LPG companies fined by Germany's Federal Cartel Office for customer protection agreements. After years of legal proceedings, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court closed the case in 2020 with a total fine of around EUR 40 million against the seven companies. Despite this, Tyczka remains a notable mid-sized player in the European gas sector, with a growing focus on hydrogen as part of the energy transition.

The Tyczka Group's origins lie in the Georg Tyczka Sauerstoffwerk, founded in 1924 in Görlitz during the Weimar Republic by Georg Tyczka. In 1934, after the Nazi seizure of power, Georg Tyczka entered the liquefied gas supply business, and two years later he opened the company's first filling plant. The business benefited from fuel shortages at the beginning of World War II, as it allowed larger quantities of liquefied gas to be sold to the German civilian population. After the end of World War II, Tyczka was expropriated without compensation by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD). Georg Tyczka then moved to West Germany and in 1947 built up the company Industriegas GmbH in Schwarzenfeld in the Upper Palatinate. His son Hans-Wolfgang Tyczka (1926–2026) joined the company in 1950. In connection with the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Hans-Wolfgang Tyczka, together with Gloria-Gas München, founded Olympiagas GmbH, which developed the hand and stadium torches for the Olympic Games. In 2002, Tyczka founded the joint venture Tyczka Totalgaz together with the oil company Total Deutschland. In 2005, Tyczka Totalgaz and the Valentin Group founded the joint venture Valentin Flüssiggas. In 2010, the remaining 50 percent of the shares in Valentin Flüssiggas were integrated into the group. In 2015, Tyczka commissioned an air separation plant in Braunau am Inn, in the Ranshofen district of Austria, producing argon, nitrogen and oxygen. In July 2017, Tyczka announced that it had taken over Total Deutschland's 50 percent stake in the former joint venture Tyczka Totalgaz. Tyczka Totalgaz was subsequently renamed Tyczka Energy GmbH. The entry into the hydrogen business area came with the founding of Tyczka Hydrogen GmbH in 2021. In February 2022, the company acquired the gas supplier GPG Gase Partner GmbH from Witten in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the 2023 financial year, the group generated revenue of EUR 437 million and employed 614 people. A significant chapter in the company's history is its involvement in the liquefied gas cartel. At the end of 2007, Tyczka Energie and Tyczka Totalgaz were among seven companies in the liquefied gas industry (including their respective managing directors) against which the Federal Cartel Office imposed fines totalling nearly EUR 208 million for customer protection agreements. In April 2013, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, in its decision against the "liquefied gas cartel" active from 1997 to 2005, went beyond the cartel office's decision and increased the fine for five companies, including Tyczka Totalgaz, to EUR 244 million. This resulted in one of the highest penalties for competition violations in the EU. The judgment was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) at the beginning of 2019 and remanded to another cartel senate of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court. In 2020, the 6th Cartel Senate of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court closed the proceedings and imposed a total fine of around EUR 40 million on the seven liquefied gas companies, including Tyczka Gase (formerly Tyczka Energie) and Tyczka Totalgaz.

• 2023

  Group generates revenue of EUR 437 million with 614 employees.

• 2022

  Acquisition of GPG Gase Partner GmbH from Witten.

• 2021

  Tyczka Hydrogen GmbH founded.

• 2017

  Tyczka acquires Total Deutschland's 50% stake in Tyczka Totalgaz; renamed Tyczka Energy GmbH.

• 2015

  Air separation plant commissioned in Braunau am Inn, Austria.

• 2010

  Remaining 50% of Valentin Flüssiggas integrated into the group.

• 2005

  Joint venture Valentin Flüssiggas founded with the Valentin Group.

• 2002

  Joint venture Tyczka Totalgaz founded with Total Deutschland.

• 1972

  Olympiagas GmbH founded with Gloria-Gas München; develops Olympic torches.

• 1950

  Hans-Wolfgang Tyczka joins the company.

• 1947

  Georg Tyczka builds up Industriegas GmbH in Schwarzenfeld, Upper Palatinate.

• 1936

  First filling plant opens.

• 1934

  Georg Tyczka enters the liquefied gas supply business.

• 1924

  Georg Tyczka founds Georg Tyczka Sauerstoffwerk in Görlitz.

Mid-sized German gas group with a focus on liquefied and industrial gases and a growing hydrogen business.

• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Argon

• Acetylene

• Hydrogen

• Carbon dioxide

• Specialty gases

• Refrigerants

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