matheson type incorporated subsidiary industry chemicals fate acquired founded 1927 as matheson gas products headquarters basking ridge nj usa hq products bulk and packaged compressed gas industrial specialty welding propane medical cryogenics and liquefied gas semiconductor manufacturing materials gas handling systems & equipment parent taiyo nippon sanso corporation tyo 4091 mitsubishi chemical holdings website http www.mathesongas.com matheson is a supplier of atmospheric gases industrial gases specialty gases electronic materials helium propane gas handling equipment high performance purification systems engineering and gas management services and on site gas generation to various industries including semiconductor manufacturing solar photovoltaics construction welding propane laboratory analysis hospitals wine making and lasers . matheson is headquartered in basking ridge new jersey usa with more than 200 owned operations in north america and additional operations in europe and asia . matheson is the north american operating entity and the largest subsidiary of taiyo nippon sanso corporation tyo 4091 one of the top five suppliers of industrial specialty and electronics gases in the world and the largest in japan . 1 matheson tri gas inc. adds to tnsc s reach with its own operations in china belgium korea and india . tnsc is a consolidated subsidiary of mitsubishi chemical holdings which is a part of core mitsubishi group . contents 1 history 2 industries served 3 references 4 external links history edit matheson gas products was founded in 1927 in north bergen new jersey by adam matheson . by virtue of the founding of his company adam matheson created the specialty gas business . among matheson s more notable accomplishments are the development of the lecture bottle now used by virtually every major college and university in the world ; and the supply of ultra pure gases that served as standards for the first gas chromatographs . in 1966 matheson acquired grey chemical of gloucester massachusetts usa a producer of ultra pure gas materials used in electronics manufacturing . in 1981 matheson became the first commercial producer of silane 2 for which it was awarded a semmy award by the semiconductor equipment and materials institute the award is now known as a semi and the organization has since changed its name to semiconductor equipment and materials international . in 1989 matheson gas products was purchased by nippon sanso corporation tokyo japan . nippon sanso later 1992 purchased tri gas of irving texas usa . the operations were not merged until 1999 with the formation of matheson tri gas the combined operations at this point spanning specialty and industrial gases and equipment and including six air separation units . nippon sanso merged with taiyo toyo sanso corporation to form taiyo nippon sanso corporation in 2004 . matheson was selected large company of the year by the new jersey technology council in 2006 . 3 significant expansion in the industrial sector occurred between 2004 and 2009 . matheson acquired six additional air separation units in 2004 . it then acquired linweld nebraska in 2006 ; 4 polar cryogenics oregon in 2007 ; 5 five star gas and gear california in 2008 ; 6 aeris california in 2008 ; 7 advanced gas technologies pennsylvania in 2008 valley national gases ohio in 2009 8 and etox texas in 2009 . 9 in may 2010 matheson acquired western international gas & cylinders inc. of texas usa 10 the largest acetylene wholesaler in the world and manufacturer of cylinders valves and related handling equipment . on july 1 2010 matheson tri gas inc. changed its logo and public name to matheson . the name of the legal entity remains matheson tri gas inc. in february 2015 matheson continued its expansion in southern california and hawaii with the acquisition of sims welding supply and assets and operations of air liquide america lp respectively . 11 12 matheson s footprint in the usa includes sixteen air separation units six helium transfills three acetylene plants and over 200 retail facilities depots fill plants and manufacturing sites . industries served edit matheson s primary products are electronics materials and equipment including high purity gas gas mixtures purification devices and other hardware and services primarily serving the electronics and led fabrication and semiconductor manufacturing industries . industrial gas applications technology and equipment including on site and merchant bulk gas and equipment and packaged gases and equipment for welding argon & cutting construction medical oxygen laser wine making food processing & preservation nitrogen beverage making carbonation helium supply & recovery 13 residential and commercial propane and other areas . specialty gases and equipment including high purity gas gas mixtures environmental gas calibration standards epa protocol gases and associated hardware and services primarily serving the laboratory process and environmental gas user and other specialties . references edit taiyo nippon sanso tnsc annual report 2009 page 19 http www.tn sanso.co.jp en ir pdf annual 2009 e.pdf http www.chemicalsdirectory.net chemicals basic chemical business basic gases industrial gases 460207 55012.html new jersey technology council njtc http www.njtc.org events els2009 bill.kroll.pdf http www.gasworld.com news.php a 946 http www.gasworld.com news.php a 1516 http news.thomasnet.com companystory 816688 http www.gasworld.com news.php a 3189 http www.chemweek.com home top of the news 18063.html http www.rdmag.com lab design news news 2010 01 construction matheson tri gas acquires assets and business from etox and gastech http www.mathesongas.com newsevents releases article.aspx articleid 131 http www.mathesongas.com newsevents releases article.aspx articleid 203 http www.mathesongas.com newsevents releases article.aspx articleid 204 http www.specialtygasreport.com features 386 external links edit matheson website tnsc air separation air separation plant design engineering manufacturing installation . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title matheson compressed gas % 26 equipment & oldid 717183502 categories chemical companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 26 april 2016 at 06 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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