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Messer celebrates the people behind the 125-year success story

of the company (PHOTO)

Bad Soden (ots) – Messer, the world’s largest private industrial gases specialist,

emerged from a small workshop – a rare one in Germany

Success story that has become: In 1898, Adolf Messer founded a small company in Höchst

Plant for acetylene generators, in which the fuel gas acetylene is made from carbide

was produced. Before Adolf Messer became a pioneer in welding and

Cutting technology, he sold acetylene lamps for the companies in the

Frankfurt area. 125 years later it is the world’s leading specialist

for industrial, medical and specialty gases in private hands, in which

founder’s grandson Stefan Messer chairs the supervisory board. His son,

Marcel Messer, manages the family-owned companies for welding

and cutting technology as well as medical technology.

Messer is celebrating its anniversary under the motto of the success story, with the

Year merged with the term: The 5 in 125 also represents the

initial letters of the motto “125uccess Story”. Follow this naming concept

the numerous national and international campaigns, the knives all around

anniversary brings to life. In addition to the actors, the focus is on

The Messer family, especially the employees, who make the unique and

fill value-based corporate culture with life and become more important

have proven to be a factor in the company’s success.

With the podcast “Stories”, which will be published weekly until the end of the year

Messer makes it possible to experience what it takes to start as a company from the beginning of the time

to successfully survive high industrialization to this day. Together with that

Historian Jörg Lesczenski, author of the company chronology “100 percent knives”,

Diana Buss, Head of Corporate Communications, talks about the story

and Tales of Messer. “Stories” is on different

Streaming platforms available.

“Summer Jams” are the names of the summer parties for the international workforce who work in

take place almost simultaneously in the various countries. Typical for knives

they are celebrated colorfully and diversely. Fun and personal exchange

among themselves are the cornerstones of these events. This is also celebrated here

“Selfie” premiere – a video in which many employees, each with one word

to express what Messer means to them.

Live and a real highlight for music fans is “Song”, the open-air concert

the band “July”, which takes place in September in Bad Soden am Taunus. People,

who live in Bad Soden get free admission to the event.

Free open-air concerts are a tradition at Messer: Already for the 120th year

The Bad

Citizens of Soden and Bad Soden about open-air concerts with Milow and Cassandra Steen

be happy.

The company opened one at Messer’s headquarters in Bad Soden back in 2011

Industrial Gases Exhibition. This will receive a digital extension from autumn

called “Science”: On three-dimensional, “flying islands” sustainable

and future-oriented gas applications, but also their history.

The highlight and end of the anniversary celebrations is the “Show” ceremony in the

October 2023. At the company headquarters in Bad Soden, among other things, a

premiered his own knife musical, arranged and implemented by actors from the

Essen Folkwang University of the Arts.

The year of Messer’s 125th anniversary also marks an entrepreneurial year

and economic milestones: Stefan Messer, shareholder of the third

Generation, moved to the head of the Messer Supervisory Board in April. His

Experienced manager Bernd Eulitz assumed the previous role as CEO. youngest

Coup: Messer completely takes over the joint venture Messer Industries and

agreed on a long-term strategic partnership with the global

institutional investor GIC.

Press contact:

Diana Buss

Senior Vice President Corporate Communications

Phone: +49 2151 7811-251

Mobile: +49 173 540 5045

Email: mailto:[email protected]

Further material: http://presseportal.de/pm/152902/5591829

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