Matheson (compressed gas & equipment)
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| 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 |
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Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation () (: ) 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 (: ), one of the top five suppliers of industrial, specialty, and electronics gases in the world, and the largest in Japan. 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.
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, 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).
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