The mission of Universal Cryo Gas is to complement the traditional products and services offered by UIG; through owning and operating industrial gas plants which produce and deliver nitrogen, oxygen and argon to customers under long-term product supply agreements. 

Universal Industrial Gases, Inc. has been in business since 1992.  UIG designs, manufactures, supplies and installs air separation equipment and provides operations and maintenance services to end-user owner-operators of oxygen plants, nitrogen plants, and air separation plants. 

Plants supplied by UIG produce nitrogen, oxygen and argon, as gases and liquids, for steel mills, chemical production facilities, metals processing facilities, and other industrial gases users in approximately one dozen countries. 

In addition to selling plants to industrial gases end-users, for production of their own industrial gases needs, UIG has sold onsite gas and merchant liquid production plants to other industrial gas companies for production of gas and liquid products for their onsite gas customers, and for producing bulk merchant liquid products for distribution to their regional bulk liquid customers. Several of the largest industrial gas companies in the world operate UIG-supplied plants.

Many end-users of industrial gases, do not wish to own plants to produce their gases needs.  Instead, a very large percentage of industrial gas users prefer to focus their capital expenditures and their management, operations and maintenance resources, on operations and technology which are unique to their industry.

As a consequence, the most common supply mode for large volume industrial gas users, such as those in the metals and metal products, chemicals, foods, electronic components, glass, pulp and paper products industries, is on-site gas production, from a dedicated plant (air separation unit, oxygen plant, or nitrogen plant) owned and operated by an industrial gas supplier.

Universal Cryo Gas now offers this group of companies on-site gas supply arrangements which combine equipment supply and installation by UIG with ongoing operations and maintenance by UCG.

By establishing UCG, UIG has created a cost-effective way to serve companies and sites which prefer to buy their industrial gas needs under utility-like long-term contracts.  

By combining the cost efficiencies of UIG plant supply and installation with customer-friendly contracts and service, UCG has become an attractive alternative to "business as usual" for many industrial gas users.  

The initial UCG plant was brought on steam in 2005. It serves the needs of a large, multi-product, specialty chemical manufacturing site located in the mid-western United States. A second UCG plant began operation in 2006, supplying nitrogen to a specialty chemical manufacturing complex located in the southeastern U.S. Additional UCG production sites are expected to begin operation in the near future.