UIG and UCG provide supply solutions for companies in steelmaking, metals manufacturing, metals fabrication, refining, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronics, food and beverage processing, rubber, plastics, glass, energy exploration and production, pulp and paper, and many other types of industries and applications where the user requires nitrogen and/or oxygen at high enough rates that on-site gas production is more economically attractive than vaporization of bulk liquid products. 

In addition to providing air separation plants for end-user ownership and operation, UIG supplies air separation equipment and bulk merchant liquid production plants to other industrial gas companies.  

UIG and UCG primarily focus on "middle market" applications which require approximately 40 to 700 tons per day of nitrogen and/ or oxygen. 

• Oxygen and nitrogen users at the lower end of this production range can typically save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year versus continuing to purchase costly and volatile-priced liquid nitrogen or oxygen. 

• Industrial gases users requiring hundreds of tons per day of product will find that UIG and UCG are able to offer supply solutions which are not only more attractively priced, but which also contain more customer-friendly commercial terms than are available from alternative onsite gas producer/ suppliers.  

Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring of major industrial gases company operations have resulted in considerable consolidation of the industry. Many of the large industrial gas companies have made significant cutbacks in their  engineering, construction, field service and customer service staffing levels. 

Industrial gas users have been faced with rising delivered product costs  and declining service levels. Many of them have become increasingly interested in exploring alternative supply arrangements.  

UIG offers alternatives to traditional industrial gas supply arrangements

UIG and UCG want to earn your business by working with you to define and offer on-site industrial gases production and supply arrangements that meet your needs in a cost-effective and reliable manner.   

We want to keep your business by providing responsive, customer-friendly service. 

Many higher volume users of liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen could save money by switching to an on-site gas production system.  UIG offers two approaches to on-site gas production: 

1. UIG sells plants to produce nitrogen and/ or oxygen to companies which would like to own, operate and maintain the production plant. UIG provides operator training and ongoing support as needed

2. UCG supplies nitrogen and/ or oxygen in a utility-like fashion to companies which do not want to own or operate an on-site production system.  UCG installs the plant; then operates and maintains it throughout the agreed supply period. Initial product supply periods are typically 7 to 15 years.

With UIG and UCG, you have multiple choices.  We will work with you to analyze the pros and cons of potential production facility choices, so that you will can choose the supply system, and the associated commercial terms which are optimal for your company's current and expected future needs. 

One Option: Produce your own industrial gas needs in a UIG-supplied plant

Many industrial gases users can reduce their sourcing costs significantly by purchasing a UIG gas production unit and integrating it with their current operations and maintenance functions instead of relying on one of the major industrial gas companies to produce gases for them or using vaporized bulk liquid products as their sole source of required industrial gases. UIG supplies equipment to produce oxygen, nitrogen, argon and carbon dioxide (CO2) as gas and/or liquid.  We supply new and used gas and liquid plants, storage tanks, vaporizers and other plant components.

UIG offers a growing variety of new plants - cryogenic and non-cryogenic; all designed to provide cost effective, reliable, operationally flexible production options to "middle volume" gas customers. 

UIG provides engineering, construction and commissioning support services as needed to plant purchasers. UIG typically assists with a number of critical construction and commissioning activities, and provides technical training and support for the plant owner's operations and maintenance personnel through startup of the plant. UIG-supplied plants can be provided with any degree of pre-startup support, up to full  "turnkey" installations (complete installation by UIG). UIG also provides post-startup customer plant support services - ongoing support to plant operations and maintenance - as needed to supplement owner-operator in-house resources.

UIG not only designs and supplies new plants, in many cases it is able to offer refurbished and upgraded used production plant options. These plants are fully-engineered combinations of new and reconditioned components which will provide excellent (and guaranteed) performance. In many cases they not only provide cost savings versus all-new plants, but can be delivered and installed more quickly than an all-new plant.  

Another Option: Have UCG supply product from a plant installed at your site 

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Universal Cryo Gas (UCG) will operate and maintain a production plant at your site which produces and delivers gaseous nitrogen or oxygen.  UCG onsite gas supply arrangements provide users with cost savings and long-term price stability. Onsite supply contracts typically have initial supply periods between seven and fifteen years in length.

Typical  initial year savings for UCG customers who have been vaporizing bulk liquid products, are  20% to 40%, which is usually hundreds of thousands of dollars a year; and those savings will grow over time.  Bulk liquid product production requires twice as much electric power as onsite gas production.  Once made, onsite-produced gases are sent directly to you through a short pipeline.  Liquid products must be delivered in over-the-road trailers.  Transportation and power cost surcharges have made their way into most bulk liquid pricing agreements, and are expected to continue to rise over time.     If you currently purchase (or will soon need to purchase) more than a trailer load of liquid nitrogen or oxygen each day (about 25 million SCF per month or more), you should investigate UCG onsite gas supply.

We will meet your needs with the very best industrial gases supply solution 

UIG is staffed with highly experienced professionals dedicated to understanding your needs and preferences and meeting them. UIG will offer a gas and/or liquid production system that will reliably and cost effectively supply the products you need; now and into the future. 

Whether you prefer to purchase industrial gases as utility-like pipeline-delivered gas products from UCG, or purchase and operate your own UIG-supplied gas production system, our goal is to meet your needs. 

UIG supplies plants, equipment and services in most parts of the world 

We have executed projects in many countries, including the United States, Canada, Spain, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Poland, Peru, Albania, Ukraine, Turkey, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. 

We know that successful projects require viable commercial arrangements 

We will work with you to define mutually beneficial product pricing and equipment purchase arrangements.  UIG will consider, in addition to straight equipment sale or gas supply contracts, equity investments, joint ventures, equipment leases and partial payment through sale of a portion of the plant production to others.  UIG can help arrange short term and longer term financing and payment arrangements, including Letters of Credit and U.S. Export-Import Bank guaranteed loans for qualified overseas buyers.  

• UIG and UCG are relatively small companies 

• We have fewer overheads and less inertia than our larger competitors

• We can make decisions and execute projects quickly

• We can save you money   

Nitrogen and oxygen users which would like to change from a bulk liquid product supply arrangement to on-site-produced nitrogen or oxygen, or which would like to change to a different onsite gas supplier, should visit our page entitled "Changing Your Industrial Gas Supplier - Tips on Understanding and Managing the Process". 

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