The mission of Universal Cryo Gas is to complement the traditional products and services offered by UIG; by being a producer and supplier of pipeline-delivered nitrogen, oxygen and argon to customers, from UCG-owned and operated industrial gas plants, under long-term product supply agreements. 

The most common supply mode for large volume industrial gas users, such as companies 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 on-site gas supply arrangements combine equipment supply and installation by UIG with ongoing operations and maintenance by UCG. 

Many 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.

They do not wish to own and operate industrial gas production plants when other companies, such as Universal Cryo Gas, which have industrial gas plant installation, operation and maintenance as their primary company activities, will make the necessary investment and provide the support services to supply them with a reliable and cost-effective, utility-like supply of nitrogen and oxygen products. 

The initial UCG plant was brought on steam in 2005 to serve the needs of a large, multi-product, specialty chemical manufacturing site located in the mid-western United States. In 2006, UCG began supplying nitrogen to another  specialty chemical manufacturing complex in the southeastern U.S.  UCG added another production site in 2009 when it started up an oxygen and nitrogen production facility which serves a petroleum refinery in the United States.  Additional UCG production facilities are expected to come on stream in the near future.   

Universal Industrial Gases, Inc. 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.  UIG has been in business since 1992.

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. UIG also supplies onsite gas and merchant liquid production plants to other industrial gas companies to produce gas and liquid products for their customers.  UIG plants are owned and operated by several of the largest industrial gas companies in the world.