Messer Launches with ZeCarb New "Carbon Capture as a Service" Offering

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Bad Soden / Frankfurt am Main

April 26, 2024 

Messer launches with ZeCarb new "Carbon Capture as a Service" offering Messer, the world's leading privately owned specialist for industrial, medical and specialty gases, is expanding its product portfolio with "ZeCarb".

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"ZeCarb" stands for "Zero Carbon" and helps to decarbonize industries with high CO2 emissions. 

With "ZeCarb", Messer is responding to the growing global demand for solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in industrial processes. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA, iea.org), 1.2 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions must be prevented each year through Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS) alone in order to achieve the net zero scenario by 2050. Messer is making a contribution to this with its new "ZeCarb" service, drawing on decades of experience in the field of CO2 recovery. Bernd Eulitz, CEO of Messer, explains: “We are in the process of changing the way in which companies across all industries reduce their carbon footprint, aligning with global sustainability goals while tapping into new growth opportunities. With our "Carbon Capture as a Service" offering under the name "ZeCarb", we provide companies and municipalities a solution to achieve their CO2 targets from an economic point of view and fulfill their ecological responsibility." 

"ZeCarb is the entire CCUS value chain from a single source"

Messer captures CO2 emissions - for example from steel, cement, glass, paper or chemical production or from fossil-fired power plants for electricity and heat generation - before they are released into the atmosphere. The recovered CO2 is then used in applications that aim to reduce the use of fossil fuels. For example, in the production of synthetic fuels, so-called eFuels, or sustainable aviation fuels. As an alternative to utilization, the recovered CO2 is permanently stored in geological formations underground.

Particularly depleted oil and gas fields, which have stored a mixture of natural gas, nitrogen and CO2 for millions of years, are used for this purpose. As a global company in the leading markets in Asia, Europe and America, Messer is globally networked with cooperation partners. "This puts us in a position to cover all areas of the CCUS value chain for customers from a single source," says Dr. Tarek El Hawary, Chief Technology Officer at Messer. He also emphasizes: "Thanks to the new ZeCarb service, we can now also use our proven CO2 recovery technology in the context of Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage." 

Messer has set up a themed landing page at https://zecarb.messergroup.com where interested parties can find out more about the new service offering. 

About ZeCarb

ZeCarb is a service brand of Messer, the world's largest privately owned specialist for industrial, medical and specialty gases. With ZeCarb ("Zero Carbon"), Messer helps various industries and municipalities, such as steel, cement, glass, paper, chemical production or fossil-fired power plants, to achieve their "net zero" climate targets by capturing CO2 emissions directly at the source. In doing so, Messer draws on decades of experience in the field of CO2 recovery. As a global player, Messer offers its sustainable products and services in Asia, Europe and America. This enables Messer to cover all areas of the Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS) value chain from a single source. Messer has already installed more than 90 systems worldwide, which are among the most proven and scalable systems for carbon capture. https://zecarb.messergroup.com 

About Messer

Messer is the world's largest privately held specialist for industrial, medical and specialty gases. Messer's Gases for Life are used in industry, environmental protection, medicine, the food industry, welding and cutting technology, 3D printing, construction, research and science. As a global player, Messer offers its sustainable products and services in Asia, Europe and the Americas. More than 11,000 employees work together successfully with a focus on diversity and mutual respect. In most industrial processes, gases are just as important as water and electricity and play a major role in their decarbonization – through the use of green hydrogen, for example. Messer offers one of the largest product portfolios in the market and develops and optimizes application technologies for gases in state-of-the-art competence centers. 

As a pharmaceutical company, Messer supplies medical and pharmaceutical gases and turnkey solutions and has a proven track record as a reliable provider of vital products – in pandemic situations, for example. Founded in 1898, the company’s headquarters are located in Bad Soden, near Frankfurt, Germany. In 2022, Messer generated an expected consolidated sales of 4.164 billion* euros. 

* Sum of Messer Group and Messer Industries, which includes 100 percent of the at-equity holding Messer Industries. 

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