Messer AGS Combines Companies to Create Major On-Site Gas Player
Mahler AGS (Germany), Generon (USA), Italfilo Engineering (Italy) and SMC Asia Gas Systems Company (China) will now operate as one company under Messer AGS. Because each company specializes in various gas generation markets around the world, products will continue to be offered under these individual brand names, said Tom Jeffers, Messer AGS president.
"This brings together four premier companies that specialize in systems to generate on-site oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen, as well as environmental technologies. By creating this union, we now offer global manufacturing capability and a world-wide sales force and support system, resulting in service to our existing and new customers that will be second to none," Jeffers said.
Mahler AGS focuses on engineering and manufacturing units for applications requiring high flow rates of on-site generated N2 (greater than 350 Nm3/hr–normal cubic meters/hr, or 13,300 scfh – standard cubic feet/hr) and O2 (greater than 5 metric tons/day or MTPD.) Industries served by Mahler's NITROSWING and OXYSWING lines include metallurgy, heat treatment, chemicals, combustion, industrial glass, pulp and paper; ozone production, and wastewater treatment. Mahler AGS also manufactures systems for on-site generation of hydrogen (HYDROSWING, HYDROFORM-C, and HYDROFORM-M), for the cryogenic generation of nitrogen (CRYOGAN), and for environmental applications.
Generon designs, engineers and manufactures on-site nitrogen and oxygen generating units for industrial-purity N2 (less than or equal to 99%) and low-flow O2 (less than or equal to 5 MTPD). Their GENERON and GENEROX lines are suited for modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) and controlled atmosphere storage & marine transport of food and produce, oil and gas (offshore and drilling operations), chemical blanketing and purging, ozone production, wastewater treatment, aquaculture, cutting and welding, glass art, medical applications, and soldering.
Italfilo Engineering specializes in engineering and manufacturing units that produce low-flow, high-purity nitrogen (N-Series, flow £ 350 Nm3/hr or 13,300 scfh) for industries such as gold art, laser cutting, heat treatment, wine sparging, and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) in the food industr. Italfilo's oxygen generating units (T-Series) are well suited for the chemical industry, ozone production and wastewater treatment applications where less than 5 MTPD of O2 is required, as well as aquaculture, cutting and welding, glass art, soldering, and medical applications.
SMC Asia Gas Systems Company focuses on manufacturing both low- and high-flow systems covering all purity ranges for O2 and N2. Based in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, SMC offers full sales and service support for Generon, Mahler AGS and Italfilo Engineering throughout the Far East. Established in 1995, SMC has been a leading supplier of PSA and membrane nitrogen and PSA/VPSA oxygen generation systems in China and is exporting non-cryo gas systems to the other countries in East and South East Asia. The company has the ability to design, engineer and manufacture to customers' specific requirements and has successfully placed systems in the chemical, oil and gas, food, metals and electronics industries.
Messer AGS is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Messer Group, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from where the activities of 200 associated companies in about 60 countries are controlled. Industrial gases, processes and equipment accounted for 85% of The Messer Group's total consolidated sales (US$2 billion) in 1998, and cutting and welding products accounted for the remaining 15%. The Messer Group employs more than 12,500 people worldwide.
Edited by April C. Murelio
editor@poweronline.com