Messer SE & Co. KGaA

Messer SE & Co. KGaA, founded in 1898 and majority-owned by the Messer family, is the world's largest privately held industrial, medical, and specialty gases company, employing more than 11,800 people across operations in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Under its 'Gases for Life' brand, Messer produces and supplies oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, welding shielding gases, specialty gases, medical gases, and food-grade gases, along with custom gas mixtures tailored to individual process requirements. The company operates its own air separation units and on-site gas production facilities at customer locations, supported by a network of competence centres that develop patented application technologies. In the water and wastewater sector, Messer provides oxygen for biological aeration enhancement, ozone generation for disinfection and advanced oxidation processes, carbon dioxide for pH neutralisation, and process gases for sludge treatment and thermal drying. Messer's environmental portfolio also includes the ZeCarb carbon capture and utilisation service, clean hydrogen production for industrial decarbonisation, and Oxyfuel technology that enriches combustion air with oxygen to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. The company serves industries including chemicals, metallurgy, food processing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, construction, and energy, and holds pharmaceutical manufacturing certification enabling it to supply medical and pharmaceutical gases under GMP conditions.