Messer Company Presentation 2021 Contents 03 | Profile/Markets 05 | Stefan Messer/History 08 | Production 14 | Products/Applications 25 | Industries/Competence Centres 31 | CSR/Values/Team/Diversity 42 | Key figures 47 | Management 52 | Messer World 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, specialty 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. In the relevant markets Since March 1, 2019: 100 % Messer Group Messer Industries: 58 % Messer Group, 42 % CVC 100 % responsibility plus 100 % entrepreneurship in one man “Journeys are better undertaken as a team – Stefan Messer with reliable partnerships.” Chairman and third-generation shareholder Member of the General Assembly and Chairman of the Foreign Trade Committee of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Frankfurt am Main Member of the Presidium and Board of Directors of the German Asia-Pacific business association (OAV) Honorary Senator of the Technical University Darmstadt and the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Engagement in European Industrial Gases Association (EIGA) and International Oxygen Manufacturers Association (IOMA) Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia Awards - Extract 2020: A Winner of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award 2019: A Winner of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award 2019: Stefan Messer inducted into „Hall of Fame for family companies" 2016: "Axia Award", “Best family successor” category. 2016: "Campden Award", “Top Sustainable Family Business“ category 2016: "Deutscher Innovationspreis 2016" (Messer Group / RWE) 2015: "Querdenker Award 2015", forward thinker" category 2014: "Entrepreneur of the Year" 2012: "Hidden champion 2012", “brand" category (3rd place) 2010: “Family entrepreneur of the Year“ 2010: "Focus for Excellence“ 2009: "Best Financial Communication in the Midmarket”, category “Companies with sales over Eur 100 million" The passion for air runs in the family The beginning The entry The way back and rapid growth into the industrial gases to the family business with Hoechst 1898 Adolf Messer founds Frankfurter Acetylen- 1965 Hans Messer founds MesserGriesheim 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 Acquisition of all and lighting appliances Knapsack-Griesheim AG belonging to shares of the financial investors by the Hoechst 1903 Ernst Wiss develops the first hydrogen- Messer family; financing through sale D/UK/USA. Continuation as Messer Group oxygen cutting torch at Griesheim- 1966 Expansion into Western Europe and North GmbH Elektron. This is followed by equipment America and machinery for oxy-fuel welding 2005 Ownership of the welding and cutting 1990 Expansion into Eastern and Central Europe and cutting division passes back to the Messer family 1995 Entry into China and rapid expansion 1908 The first oxygen plant opens at Chemische 2008 Messer Industriegase GmbH is founded in Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron Germany 2019 Messer Group and CVC Capital Partners jointly acquire significant parts of Linde’s For more than 120 years now, the name “Messer” is associated with expertise in the US business, the Linde operations in field of industrial gases as well as welding and cutting technology. At the same time, Canada, Brazil and Colombia, and the the brand name also stands for the close links of the company and the family, Praxair operations in Chile. and their changing histories. 2021 Change in legal form of Messer Group GmbH into Messer SE & Co. KGaA 100 % Messer - The return of the family-owned company (partnership limited by shares) by Dr. Jörg Lesczenski We make the most out of air We do this all along the line Air separation unit Products Sales Customer segments 80% 50% 70% Construction Automotive 40% 60% 50% Industry, production 30% Environment and manufacturing 40% 20% 30% (Petro)chemicals,rubber, plastics 20% 10% Metallurgy/steel, Welding 10% iron/glass and ceramics & Cutting 0% 0% Argon, Xenon, Krypton Oxygen Nitrogen Hardware, others Pipeline, on site Cylinders Bulk Food and beverages Medicine,pharmaceuticals Messer Total is a purely mathematical sum of Messer Group and Messer Industries that includes 100% of the at-equity investment in Messer Industries In the major markets: Europe Estonia Latvia Lithuania Russia Belarus Poland Netherlands Belgium Germany Ukraine Czech Slovakia Republic Hungary Romania Austria Slovenia Switzerland France Croatia Bulgaria Bosnia- Herzegovina Serbia Montenegro Portugal North Macedonia Albania Spain Existing Air separation units under air separation units construction or planned Asia China Nanjing/Chuzhou Chengdu/Mianyang/Leshan/Meishan Zhangjiagang Shanghai/Wujiang/Suzhou Chongqing Xichang Panzhihua Ningbo/Shaoxing Xiangtan/Hengyang/Ningxiang Haikou/Anning/Kunming/Qujing Yuxi Foshan/Shunde/Dongguan Yangjiang Hai Duong/Thai Nguyen Thailand Dung Quat Bangkok Bin Phuc Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Existing air separation units Air separation units under Malaysia Johor construction or planned North America Canada United States Existing air separation units Puerto Rico/ Virgin Islands Air separation units under construction or planned Cartagena South America Colombia Bogotá Brazil Salvador Resende Timóteo Cubatão Rio de Janeiro Santiago Curitiba Chile Existing air separation units Air separation units under construction or planned We supply gas just the way you need it The right solution for every application Reliable Optimal for smaller jobs for large jobs Cylinders or cylinder Gas production at the bundles customer’s site Local distribution partners Air separation units or directly from the filling PSA, VPSA or membrane plant plants Hydrogen and synthesis gas Effective production facilities Perfect for medium-sized jobs for the biggest jobs of all Storage tank on site with Pipeline systems with a gas supply from a road direct connection to the tanker business park or bulk consumer Small dewar solution, supplied by Messer service vehicles We make the gases which life can’t do without Specialty gases Food gases Liquid helium for cooling super- Cryogenic freezing conducting magnets in MRI Transport refrigeration systems scanners Modified atmosphere packaging High purity process and calibration gases for analytics System solutions to optimize mixing and kneading processes Shielding und fuel gases, highly Krypton for insulating glass developed welding gas mixtures panels Medical gases for clinical treatment Balloon gas Welding and cutting Specialty gases fittings and Medical and gases supply systems pharmaceutical gases and much more besides TIG, MIG and MAG welding Anesthesia Forming Pain management Laser welding and cutting Diagnosis Gases for additive manufacturing Respiratory therapy Gases for oxy fuel technology Surgery Gases for surface treatment such Cryotherapy as thermal spraying Pure gases and gas mixtures Our wide range of specialty gases Biobanks under the Gourmet brand In detail: welding and cutting gases Shielding gases for welding are sold under standardized, group-wide names which are based on the materials being worked: Ferroline Inoxline for plain and low-alloy steels for high-alloy steels and Ni-based alloys Aluline Addline for aluminum and non-ferrous metals for additive manufacturing of metals Other welding and cutting gases: Forming gas Lasline for processing laser material and protects the back of the weld against oxidation generating the laser beam Nitrocut und Oxycut Brenngase laser cutting gases for oxy-fuel technology In detail: food gases Gourmet is the brand name under "Last mile" deliveries: which Messer supplies pure gases gases for a perfect cold chain in and gas mixtures for the food e-commerce deliveries. industry. Messer's SnowDrop station for the production of dry ice snow, combined with Gourmet C, O, Ar and N meet the highest Olivo's MiniCryo boxes for the reliable quality requirements. transport of chilled and frozen products, offers Gourmet gases comply with all food regulations, such as those contained in the tailor-made solutions for a new and European regulations for EU countries or growing e-commerce market the FDA guidelines for the USA. possibility of full automation in a food distribution center guaranteed temperature maintenance during deliveries more environmental In detail: specialty gases Messer offers an extensive range of pure gases, standard mixtures and (on request) individual gas mixtures produced to each customer’s specification. Liquid helium (in dewars) High purity gases (argon, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.) Noble gases (krypton, xenon, neon) 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 In detail: medical gases The most important medical gases at a glance: Oxygen Nitrous oxide Carbon dioxide Serynox: nitrous oxide / oxygen