Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland
Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors
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The Westfalen Group is continuing to expand its industrial gases business in Europe and is extensively extending its existing filling plant in Eiken near Basel in Switzerland. With an investment in the double-digit million range, the production capacity of the subsidiary Westfalen Gas Schweiz (WGS) will be almost doubled in future.
WGS supplies mainly medium-sized customers in Switzerland with gases for the beverage and pharmaceutical industries, for laboratory and medical applications and for welding and cutting applications. "In recent years, Eiken has developed into an important location within our international industrial gases business. With the expansion, we are creating the conditions for further growth in Switzerland and at the same time strengthening our European network," said Thomas Perkmann, CEO of the Westfalen Group, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the plant expansion. "The investment is an important milestone for the further expansion of our European business."
Westfalen Gas Switzerland was founded 25 years ago. Ten years later, the filling plant in Eiken began operations. For WGS Managing Director Tony Moes, the expansion is therefore also a special anniversary: "The fact that we can combine the plant expansion with our 25th anniversary makes this day special for us." The growth in Switzerland is above all the result of the great commitment of the employees, continued the Westfalen Managing Director. They have ensured that the company has developed into what it is today over the past 25 years. Moes: "The plant expansion brings us another step closer to our goal of becoming the preferred industrial gases partner for SMEs in Switzerland."
The Westfalen Group supplies around 40,000 industrial customers throughout Europe with industrial gases and fills around 2.2 million cylinders a year at eleven locations in four countries. In addition to Switzerland, further investments in Europe are to follow in the future. "We are consistently driving growth in our European core markets and are currently building another filling site in south-west France," says Perkmann.
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