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Messer Company Presentation 2020 Messer Company Presentation 2020 1_55 Messer 2020 Content Profile/Markets Owner/History Production 03 05 07 Industries/ Products/Applications Competence Centres CSR/Values 13 22 26 Key Figures Management Messer World 36 41 46 2_55 Messer 2020 Short profile: Messer in brief Company Messer is the world‘s largest family-run industrial gases specialist. Products Messer manufactures and supplies oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases for welding, speciality gases, medical gases and food gases as well as many different gas mixtures. Customers Almost all industrial sectors, healthcare as well as science and research benefit from our products and application technologies. 3_55 Messer 2020 In the relevant markets Since March 1, 2019: Messer Industries Messer CVC Group 42 % 58 % 4_55 Messer 2020 100 % responsibility plus 100 % entrepreneurship in one man Stefan Messer • CEO of Messer Group GmbH “Journeys are better undertaken • Stefan Messer’s roles include: as a team – with established Vice President of the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) partnerships.” Member of the Steering Committee and of the Board of the German Asia-Pacific business association (OAV) Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of Messer Honorary Senator of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Involvement in European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) and International Oxygen Manufacturers Association (IOMA) Honorary Consul (Republic of Slovenia) 5_55 Messer 2020 The passion for air runs in the family The beginning Evolution into a The way forward, back and rapid growth global enterprise into family ownership 1898 Adolf Messer founds Frankfurter Acetylen- 1965 Hans Messer founds Messer Griesheim 2001 Goldman Sachs Funds and Allianz Capital Gas-Gesellschaft Messer & Cie. in Hoechst GmbH. Partners buy up Hoechst (Aventis) shares as a manufacturer of acetylene generators Merger of Adolf Messer GmbH with parts of 2004 Founding of Messer Group GmbH. and lighting appliances Knapsack-Griesheim AG belonging to Messer is once again wholly owned by the Hoechst 1903 Ernst Wiss develops the first hydrogen- Messer family oxygen cutting torch at Griesheim- 1966 Expansion into Western Europe and North 2005 Ownership of the welding and cutting Elektron. This is followed by equipment America division passes back to the Messer family and machinery for oxy-fuel welding 1990 Expansion into Eastern and Central Europe 2006 Sales exceed one billion euros for the first and cutting time: Messer and Messer Eutectic Castolin. 1995 Entry into China and rapid expansion 1908 The first oxygen plant opens at Chemische Expansion of activities in Europe and Asia Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron 2008 Messer Industriegase GmbH is founded in Germany For more than 120 years now, the name “Messer” is associated 2011 Move to new joint company headquarters in with expertise in the field of industrial gases as well as welding Bad Soden and cutting technology. At the same time, the brand name also 2018 120th anniversary of Messer stands for the close links of the company and the family, and their changing histories. 2019 Messer Group and CVC Capital Partners jointly acquire significant parts of Linde’s US business, the Linde operations in 100 % Messer - The return of the family-owned company Canada, Brazil and Colombia, and the by Dr. Jörg Lesczenski 6_55 Messer 2020 Praxair operations in Chile. We make the most out of air 7_55 Messer 2020 We do this all along the line Air separation unit Products Sales Customer segments Automotive Argon, Xenon, Krypton 1 % Hardware, others 7 % Cylinders 21 % Oxygen 21 % Construction Environmental technology Food and beverages Industry, production and manufacturing Medicine and pharmaceuticals Metallurgy/steel, iron/glass and ceramics Pipeline, Nitrogen 78 % Bulk 54 % (Petro)chemicals, on site 18 % rubber, plastics Welding and cutting Messer Total is a purely mathematical sum of Messer Group and Messer Industries that includes 100% of the at-equity investment in Messer Industries. 8_55 Messer 2020 In the major markets: Estonia Europe Latvia Lithuania Russia Poland Belarus Netherlands Belgium Germany Ukraine Czech Republic Slovakia Romania Hungary Austria Slovenia Switzerland France Croatia Bulgaria Bosnia- Existing Herzegovina Serbia Montenegro air separation units Portugal North Macedonia Albania Air separation units Spain under construction or planned 9_55 Messer 2020 Asia China Nanjing Zhangjiagang Chuzhou Wujiang/Suzhou Chengdu Chongqing Mianyang Shanghai Leshan Ningbo Xichang Shaoxing Panzhihua Xiangtan/Hengyang/Ningxiang/Changsha Qujing Kunming Anning Haikou Yuxi Foshan/Dongguan Yangjiang Shunde Existing Thailand air separation units Air separation units Vietnam under construction or planned 10_55 Messer 2020 Malaysia North America Canada United States Existing air separation units Air separation units under construction or planned Puerto Rico/ Virgin Islands 11_55 Messer 2020 Cartagena South America Colombia Bogotá Brazil Salvador Resende Timóteo Cubatão Rio de Janeiro Santiago Curitiba Existing air separation units Chile Air separation units under construction or planned 12_55 Messer 2020 We supply gas – just the way you need it 13_55 Messer 2020 Four paths, one goal: The right solution for each customer Reliable for Optimal for smaller jobs: large jobs: • Cylinders or cylinder • Gas production at the bundles customer’s site • Local distribution partners • Air separation units or directly from the filling plant • PSA, VPSA or membrane plants • Hydrogen and synthesis gas production facilities Effective for Perfect for medium-sized jobs: the biggest jobs of all: • Storage tank on site with gas • Pipeline systems with a direct supply from a road tanker connection to the business park or bulk consumer • Small dewar solution, supplied by Messer service vehicles 14_55 Messer 2020 We make the gases life can’t do without Welding and Speciality gases Medical and Food gases cutting gases pharmaceutical gases Shielding und fuel gases, highly Our wide range of speciality Medical gases for clinical Pure gases and gas mixtures developed welding gas mixtures gases treatment under the Gourmet brand • TIG, MIG and MAG welding • Liquid helium for cooling super- • Anaesthesia • Cryogenic freezing conducting magnets in MRI • Forming • Pain management • Transport refrigeration systems scanners • Laser welding and cutting • Diagnosis • Modified atmosphere packaging • High purity process and calibration • Gases for additive manufacturing gases for analytics • Respiratory therapy • System solutions to optimise mixing and kneading processes • Gases for oxy fuel technology • Krypton for insulating glass panels • Surgery • Gases for surface treatment such • Baloon gas • Cryotherapy as thermal spraying • Specialtygases fittings and supply • Biobanks systems • and much more besides 15_55 Messer 2020 In detail: Welding and cutting gases Shielding gases for welding are sold Other welding and cutting gases under standardised, group-wide names which are based on the materials being • Forming gas – protects the back of the worked: weld against oxidation • Ferroline – for plain and low-alloy • Lasline – for processing laser material steels and generating the laser beam • Inoxline – for high-alloy steels and Ni-based alloys • Nitrocut and Oxycut – laser cutting • Aluline – for aluminium and non-ferrous gases metals • Fuel gases – for oxy-fuel technology • Addline – for additive manufacturing of metals 16_55 Messer 2020 In detail: Food gases Gourmet is the brand name under Examples: which Messer supplies pure gases and gas mixtures for the food industry. • Gourmet C: Carbon dioxide, e.g. for carbonating beverages • Gourmet N: Nitrogen, e.g. for freezing, cooling and packing food • Gourmet O: Oxygen, e.g. for packing fresh salads • Gourmet A: Argon, e.g. for inerting to protect wine • Gourmet gases satisfy the highest quality standards. • Gourmet Gases conform to all food law regulations, such as those contained in the European regulations for EU countries or the FDA guidelines for the USA. 17_55 Messer 2020 In detail: Specialty gases Messer offers an extensive range of • Liquid helium (in dewars) pure gases, standard mixtures and • High purity gases (on request) individual gas mixtures (argon, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) produced to each customer’s • Noble gases (krypton, xenon, neon) specification. • Standard mixtures (argon/methane, laser mixtures, etc.) • Custom-made mixtures (calibration gases) • Pressure cans • Hydrocarbons (methane, acetylene, ethylene, etc.) • Carbon monoxide • Inorganic gases (ammonia, chlorine, sulphur dioxide, etc.) • Refrigerants • Gases for the electronic industry (e.g. semiconductor manufacturing) • Specialty gases fittings and supply systems 18_55 Messer 2020 In detail: Medical gases The most important medical gases The most important areas of expertise, at a glance: where medical gases are used: • Oxygen • Anaesthesia • Nitrous oxide • Intensive care/emergency medicine • Carbon dioxide • Pulmonology Further medical gases are amongst others: • Argon • Gas mixtures • Helium • Air • Nitrogen • Nitric oxide in nitrogen 19_55 Messer 2020 In detail: Medical gases In addition, medical gases are used in • Rheumatology the following areas of expertise: • Sports medicine • Occupational medicine • Toxicology • Biobanks/cryobanks and research institutes • Veterinary medicine • Surgery • Dentistry • Dermatology • Diabetology • Gynaecology • Haematology • Cardiology • Neonatology • Ophthalmology
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