The Messer Group GmbH is a supplier of

industrial gas Industrial gases are the gaseous materials that are manufactured for use in industry. The principal gases provided are nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon, hydrogen, helium and acetylene, although many other gases and mixtures are also avail ...

es. Business is focused on 30 European and Asian countries. The company headquarters are located in Bad Soden ( Germany). Messer is selling gases for industrial use like oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases and gases for medical use.

History

In 1898, a student, Adolf Messer founded a company for

acetylene Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula and structure . It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in its pure ...

lamps in Frankfurt Höchst. With the emerging of electrical lighting the company changed its business towards welding. The company merged in 1965 with Knapsack Griesheim AG to form the new Messer Griesheim GmbH. After this merger

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held two-thirds of the company shares. Between 1997 and 2004 the gas and welding-related divisions were bought back by the Messer Family creating the current Messer Group GmbH. The company subsidiaries for Germany, UK and the US were sold to Air Liquide, including a four-year

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for the Messer Group. After the expiration of the non-compete clause in 2008 the Messer Group GmbH began selling gases for industrial use in these countries again. Messer Tehnogas AD have production sites in seven cities in Serbia -

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, Novi Sad, Bor, Niš,

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, Smederevo and Kraljevo In 2019, Messer acquired the right to operate in North America and in South America as a result of the Linde-Praxair merger. Regulator approval required the divestment of these rights. Messer began operating the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Chile. Cold_box_Bor

References

External links

Official website

Messer Cutting Systems GmbH
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