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Messer SE & Co. KGaA
Messer is the largest privately managed industrial gases specialist and is active in more than 30 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as Peru, Algeria and New Zealand, with a total of over 60 operating companies. Its international activities are managed from Frankfurt am Main, whilst management of core technical functions – logistics, engineering, production and applications engineering – is undertaken from Krefeld. In 2012, 5,364 employees generated consolidated sales of € 1,088 billion.
From acetylene to xenon, the Messer Group has one of the most diverse product portfolios on the market - it produces industrial gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, specialty gases, medical gases and many different gas mixtures.
The Messer Group has state-of-the-art research and competence centers in which it develops applied technologies for the use of gases in almost every sector of industry, in food technology and environmental technology, medicine as well as research and science.