Virtually a new kid on the specialty gases block, Tier 5 Labs, LLC was founded in January 2013 in Naperville, Illinois. Formed to provide specialty gases to the independent gas and welding distributor in North America, this scratch start laboratory began production of high accuracy gases in July 2013. Since then, it has sharpened its focus. Tier 5 Labs’ mission today is to maintain an independent manufacturing and supply source for the high end offering of technically accurate specialty gases, distributed nationally through independent and welding distributors.
Filling a Need
Within the independent distributor business, it is becoming more difficult, for many reasons, for the distributor to obtain specialty gases as it once did through the major industrial gas suppliers. For this reason Tier 5 Labs, LLC was formed. It obtains the gases in bulk and purifies the gases as needed for its customers. It uses as its business strategy a model whereby it sells its products only through a network of independent gas and welding distributors.
Independent distributors are often structurally restricted in going to market by major distribution companies located within the United States. These major companies that manufacture specialty gases, in many cases, are the only resource by which the independent company can obtain their high accuracy specialty gases for resale. To support the distributor’s customer’s needs, Tier 5 Labs is able to obtain the necessary source gases, including nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), hydrocarbons, and various chemicals, among others, to manufacture the high accuracy gases themselves. The sourced gases and chemicals required in the manufacturing of these specialty gases are obtained by Tier 5 Labs from companies within and outside of the United States.
Once received, the various components are used to manufacture the various mixtures required by the independent distributor’s customer. Chemicals, such as methane, pentane, n-butane, butane, ethane, ethylene, isobutene, toluene, benzene, ethyl benzene, O-Xylene, deuterium, hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, to name but a few, are all used by Tier 5 Labs in the manufacturing of very high accuracy chemical gases.
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