Messer opens new cylinder filling plant in Estella, Spain

Industrial gases major Messer has opened a new filling plant for cylinder gases in Estella, Spain, to support the supply of industrial, food, medical, and specialty gases.

Unveiled today (24^th June), the plant has a capacity of 250,000 cylinders per year and will be powered entirely by renewable energy. In turn, this will support Messer’s goal to reduce its emissions intensity by 40% by 2030 compared to 2019 levels.

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The new plant will also be granted approval as a pharmaceutical laboratory to produce medical gases.

Rubén Folgado, Managing Director of Messer in Spain, said the investment boots Messer’s competitiveness and strengthens its growth strategy in the Iberian Peninsula.

“Our products are indispensable to many industrial processes, where they enhance safety, increase efficiency, and improve the environmental outcomes of our customers’ production processes.”

Further down the line, Messer wants to also include additional filling lines for green hydrogen at the location, adding yet another dimension to the facility.

Commenting on these plans, Virginia Esly, CEO of Messer Europe, said, “I have faith that we will soon be able to count on Messer’s planned filling plant for green hydrogen here in Estella.”

Earlier this year, Messer announced the start-up of a new ‘Carbon Capture as a Service’ offer that promises to help decarbonise industries with high carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Short for ‘Zero Carbon’, the ‘ZeCarb’ model is the company’s response to the growing global demand for solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in industrial processes.

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