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Diana Buss

Corporate Communications

Vice President Communications

+49 (0) 2151 7811-251

+49 (0) 2151 7811-598

diana.buss@messergroup.com

Angela Bockstegers

Corporate Communications

Specialist Public Relations

+49 2151 7811-331

+49 2151 7811-598

angela.bockstegers@messergroup.com

Tobias Meckel Awarded Adolf Messer Prize

9^thDecember 2010

Dr. Tobias Meckel, a research assistant in the Biology Faculty, received the Adolf Messer Prize, which comes with prize money of 50,000 euros, for his research into processes in living cells. The Adolf Messer Prize is the most valuable scientific prize of the TU Darmstadt and is awarded each year for outstanding achievements in the sectors of natural sciences, engineering sciences, and economic and social sciences and the humanities.

Stefan Messer named Family Entrepreneur of the Year

4^th November 2010

Stefan Messer, owner and CEO of Messer Group GmbH, has been honoured for his exemplary business achievements by being named ‘Family Entrepreneur of the Year’ at this year’s INTES Business Success Forum. The award is bestowed by INTES in association with the business magazine ‘impulse’.

Messer continues to forge ahead in Germany

27^th October 2010

Industrial gases specialist Messer has opened its largest European production facility in Germany. Messer has now been supplying Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, one of its major customers, with industrial gases from its largest European production facility since August. The on-site air separation unit at Salzgitter AG has now been officially opened.

“-mix” becomes “-line”: the new product lines from Messer

22^nd October 2010

Messer will showcase its new inert welding gas trademarks at the EuroBLECH trade fair In Hanover from 26 to 30 October 2010. The new product lines – called Ferroline, Aluline and Inoxline – will be used uniformly across the Group.

Opening of Messer’s first air separation unit in Vietnam

6^thOctober 2010

The industrial gases specialist Messer officially opened its first production unit for industrial gases in Vietnam on October 6, 2010. The facility is today the largest air separation plant in Vietnam with a capacity of 300 tons per day of oxygen and 510 tons per day of nitrogen.

Stefan Messer receives “Focus for Excellence 2010”

30^th September 2010

Stefan Messer, CEO and owner of industrial gases specialist Messer, will be rewarded for his entrepreneurial achievements with the entrepreneurs’ award “Focus for Excellence 2010”. This award is presented by the entrepreneurs’ association Liberaler Mittelstand Hessen e.V. once each year to entrepreneurs and companies who stand out on account of the traditional values they put into practice and their exemplary entrepreneurship.

Messer supports respiratory medicine

17^th September 2010

Messer will be showcasing its extensive artificial respiration portfolio at this year’s Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) in Barcelona. As a certified full-service provider for this type of care, the company offers a comprehensive range of gases for use in clinics and other areas of health care under the Messer Medical brand.

Messer: “A strong foundation for health.”

22^nd July 2010

Messer lays the foundation stone for the new headquarters of the medical gases and medical and health technology division in Gumpoldskirchen, Austria.

New analytical laboratory for plastic raw materials

19^th July 2010

TVK, the largest petrochemical company in Hungary, has awarded Messer the contract to equip the laboratory in its olefin plant in Tiszaújváros. The new gas supply system with gas withdrawal points was handed over to TVK in November 2009.

Messer: “The development of new premises creates value”

8^th June 2010

Messer lays the foundation stone for new corporate headquarters in Bad Soden, in which the companies of the Messer Group will once again be brought together under one roof. The move to the new headquarters in April 2011 will once again see Messer Group, Messer Cutting and Welding, Castolin Eutectic and BIT Analytical Instruments brought together under one roof for the first time after a period of over ten years during which these companies were run separately.

Independence – a factor in Messer’s success

18^th May 2010

Industrial gases specialist Messer achieved global sales of about 797 million euros in the 2009 financial year, thereby exceeding total sales for the record year of 2008 by approximately two million euros. EBITDA for 2009 was 175 million euros.

Messer commissions largest CO2 recovery plant

6^th May 2010

Industrial gases specialist Messer has commissioned a new CO₂ liquefaction plant with an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons of carbon dioxide on the site of the British company Ineos Oxide in Zwijndrecht near Antwerp, Belgium. The Messer Group has operations in Europe and Asia, and this is its largest CO₂ plant. It is operated jointly with the Belgian company IJsfabriek Strombeek under the name “bECO₂“, the joint venture set up by the two companies, in which Messer holds a 70 per cent share.

Messer secures supply of carbon dioxide in Vietnam

3^rd May 2010

Industrial gases specialist Messer has signed a contract that secures access to a CO₂ source in the southern Vietnamese province of Binh Phuoc.

Powder “produced from thin air”: Cold grinding with gases

27^th April 2010

Industrial gas specialist Messer will provide information about cryogenic grinding of composite materials, plastics and foodstuffs at Powtech 2010 in Nuremberg, Hall 7, Booth 418.

Pepsico recommends Messer

18^th March 2010

On Pepsico’s recommendation, Fruktona, a bottler of alcohol-free drinks, has chosen Messer as its new gas supply partner.

Christina Roth Awarded Adolf Messer Prize

3^rd March 2010

The Adolf Messer Prize is the most valuable scientific prize of the TU Darmstadt and is awarded each year for outstanding achievements in the sectors of natural sciences, medicine, engineering sciences, and economic and social sciences. Christina Roth, Junior Professor in the field of renewable energies at the TU Darmstadt, will receive the prize for her research into new materials for fuel cells intended for future use in cars or laptops.

Gases from Messer for the king of the Dubai skyline

25^th January 2010

In the manufacture of steel constructions, such as the lifts in the Burj Khalífa building in Dubai that are constantly under huge dynamic stresses, high-quality welds are decisive. A total of 14 lifts, each with a lifting height of 400 metres and used to build the Burj Khalífa, were welded with the Ferromix welding gas from the industrial gas specialist Messer.

Spectacular installation of an air separation plant

19^th January 2010

On time, spectacular and in the end a success. This was the highpoint in the installation of a production plant for air gases from the industrial gas specialist Messer. The most powerful crawler crane in southern Germany was brought specifically to Salzgitter to lift a 140-ton aluminium column 100 metres into the air for fitting into a 62 metre tall steel housing.

Messer once again Serbia’s best foreign brand

11^st January 2010

For the fifth time in a row, industrial gases specialist Messer has won the “Best of Serbia” award for the best foreign corporate brand.