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Messer Group

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Year Founded & Workforce

1898

5,675 Employees

Industry

Chemicals & Materials

Services

Technical gasesWelding & cutting gasesSpecialty GasesFood gasesPharmaceutical gases

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Messer Group Overview

Company Headquarters: Germany

Founded: 1898

Workforce: 5,675

Company Working: Messer Group is the largest privately held specialist in industrial, medical, and specialty gases in the world. It offers a broad range of products including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, acetylene, shielding gases for industrial, food and beverage, and medical applications. The group is also engaged in providing automatic dry ice production machines, CO2 cylinder filling plants, CO2 vaporizers, dry ice blasting equipment, CO2 production plants and recovery systems, CO2 storage tanks, and other CO2 accessories. The group has more than 90 operating companies in 35 countries across Europe, Asia, America, and Algeria.

Strategy

Messer Group mainly focuses on its business diversification and development on technologies to make the customers’ production processes more efficient and resource friendly

Company Snapshot

$1,293.69M

Revenue

5,675

Employees

1898

Founded

Germany

Headquarters

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

Wide range of products
Expansion in emerging economies such as China, Vietnam
Leading industrial gases manufacturer

Weaknesses

Large reliance on cash flows from operating activities to repay debt

Opportunities

Multifarious use of industrial gases in major end-use industries

Threats

Intense competition in the market leading to low product prices
Stringent environmental protection laws

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Key Developments

Date	Approach	Development
April 2017	Expansion	Messer Group and Hoe Phat Steel, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, signed a contract for the construction of two plants for the production of industrial gases. According to the terms of the agreement, Messer supplies oxygen, nitrogen, and argon to steelworks by pipeline. Both the plants will start operations in the Dung Quat economic zone in Southern Central Vietnam by November 2018. This is the largest industrial gases production facility in Vietnam. Messer invested a total of over USD 90 million.

Product Offering

Messer Group
- Technical gases
- Welding & cutting gases
- Specialty Gases
- Food gases
- Pharmaceutical gases

Financial Performance

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By Business Segment: Sales Revenue rose from USD 1,293.7 Mn in 2015 to USD 1,391.8 Mn in 2017.

Messer Group — By Business Segment
Series (USD Mn)	2015	2016	2017
Sales Revenue	1,293.7	1,268.5	1,391.8

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Reports featuring Messer Group

3 market reports profile this company.

Global Electronic-Grade Hydrogen and Nitrogen MarketSilicon, Wafer, Fabrication and Packaging · SEMI Global High Purity Gas MarketSpecialty Chemicals · CNM Global Gas and Liquid Argon MarketChemicals & Materials · CNM

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Wantstats' research desk profiles Messer Group as part of our ongoing coverage of the Chemicals & Materials sector, drawing on public company data, filings, and market intelligence.

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