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Company type | Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung |
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Industry | Chemicals |
Founded | 1898 |
Headquarters | Bad Soden, Germany |
Key people | Stefan Messer (CEO) and Jürgen Heraeus (Chairman) |
Products | Industrial gases, fine chemicals |
Number of employees | 10,000 approx (2019) |
Website | www.messergroup.com |
The Messer Group GmbH[1] is a supplier of industrial gases. Business is focused on 30 European and Asian countries. The company headquarters are located in Bad Soden (Germany). The managing director of the family company is Stefan Messer, grandson of the company founder.[2]
Messer is selling gases for industrial use like oxygen, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, helium, shielding gases and gases for medical use. The family-owned group was most recently valued at upwards of €12 billion.[3]