Messer

International company of manufacture and industrial laboratory and gas distribution.

History

1898 : Adolf Messer founds the company Frankfurter Acetylen Gas Gesellschaft Messer & Co in Höchst (Germany) for the manufacture of generators of Acétylène and lighting equipments.

1903 : Ernst Wiss develops at Griesheim Elektron the first oxyhydrogen blowpipe followed by apparatuses and machines for the techniques of Soudage and autogenous cutting.

1908 : Brought into service of the first factory of production of oxygen by the company Chemische Fabrik Griesheim Elektron .

1965 : Birth of Messer Griesheim GMBH under the direction of Hans Messer (wire of Adolf Messer) and who is a fusion of the company Adolf Messer GMBH with part of the company Knapsack-Griesheim AG pertaining to the German group Hoechst .

1966 : Expansion in Western Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, like Spain), and in North America (the United States, Canada).

1990 : Expansion in Eastern Europe and Central Europe, and in particular in Poland and Hungary.

1998 : Centenary of the creation of the company by Adolf Messer.

2001 : Goldman & Sachs Funds and Allianz Capital acquires the shares of Hoechst (become Aventis meanwhile), to a total value of 33% each one. The foundation of the Messer family around Stefan Messer (grandson of the founder) holding 33% also.

2004 : Repurchase by the Messer family of the shares of Goldman & Sachs Funds and Capital Allianz . The company Messer becomes again with 100% property of the family Messer

NB: the repurchase of the shares of financial the Goldman & Sachs Funds and Capital Allianz , could be done thanks to the resale of subsidiary companies Messer in Germany, the United States and the U.K.

Trades

Technologies of the environment
the metallurgy
food industry
Pharmacy-Biotechnologies & Research laboratory
Water treatment
Welding and Oxycoupage
glass industry and insulating
medicine
Technical chemical industry
of industrial refrigeration
plastics and rubber
Electricity and Electronique

Principal trade

To produce and distribute gases, the gas producers use the process of separation of the air. This process is based on the physicochemical properties of the atoms and molecules contained in the air. More concretely, the air that we breathe is composed of Azote (N₂), of Oxygène (O₂) into large part and others composed moreover minor amount (in particular the rare gases). To recover these components of the air, the gas ones manufactured distillation columns which are divided into several stages. Each stages is cooled at very low temperatures, so as to reach the points of change of state of the components of the air. In this manner, to -196 °C, the nitrogen, component principal of the air pass from the gas state in the liquid state. The same applies to the oxygen which passes from the gas state in the liquid state to -182 °C. The components of the air are thus collected in their liquid state, large cooled cisterns, then transported up to the various points of conditioning to be purified and compressed (sharpening in a gas state) and filled in pressurized bottles with 200 or 300 bar (with 15 °C)

Products

The gases most usually distributed by the gas ones are the following:

N₂ : Nitrogen (Gas of the air)
O₂: Oxygen (Gas of the air)
He: Helium (rare gas, obtained in underground sources)
Xe: Xenon (rare gas)
Kr: Krypton (rare gas)
CO₂: Carbon dioxide (petrochemical rejections factories which is recycled and purified)
H₂: Hydrogen (obtained by crackage of water H₂O molecules)
Ar: Argon (Gas of the air)
special Gases: special Gases (Produced gas of composition or raffination private individual and/or to measure with certificate of analysis)

External bonds

Messer.fr the site of Messer France
the international site of the group Messer
Messer partner of the companies of agroalimentary the
Messer specialist in the solutions of cryogenic cleaning
Messer partner of the wine growers and oenologists
Messer and his offer technology 300 bar
Messer gate customer & prospective customer
Messer the ecological and economic management of the environment

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