Universal Industrial Gases (UIG) is a USA-based, world-wide supplier of industrial gases production equipment, together with related engineering, installation and startup services.  Universal Cryo Gas (UCG) supplies on-site-produced nitrogen, oxygen and argon to North American customers from UCG owned air separation plants, nitrogen plants and oxygen plants.

Founded in 1992, UIG provides custom-engineered industrial gas production plants to customers throughout the world. The new and reconditioned air separation plants supplied by UIG produce nitrogen, oxygen and argon as gases and liquids. UIG also supplies carbon dioxide plants which recover and liquefy CO₂ from gas streams produced as a byproduct by various types of industrial processes.

UCG was established in 2005 to serve industrial gas users which prefer to purchase oxygen and nitrogen in a utility-like, pipeline-delivered manner instead of buying a plant and operating it to produce their requirements themselves.      

"Middle market" users have industrial gas requirements which are large enough to make on-site gas production more economically attractive than vaporization of bulk liquid products. UIG and UCG customers typically consume between 30 to 500 tons per day of nitrogen and/ or oxygen.

UIG and UCG provide industrial gases supply solutions supporting processes used in a wide range of industries.  We serve companies in steelmaking, metals manufacturing, metals fabrication, refining, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronics, food and beverage processing, rubber, plastics, glass, energy exploration and production, and pulp and paper.  UIG also supplies air separation equipment and merchant liquid production plants to other industrial gas companies. 

Our home office is located in the north-east United States, in eastern Pennsylvania.  We are a little more than a one hour drive away from both New York City and Philadelphia.  UCG regional representatives serve customers and potential customers in various markets in the US.  UIG has representatives in several other countries. 

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 engineering, construction, field service and customer service staffs over the past decade.  Industrial gases users have become increasingly frustrated by unresponsive suppliers and angered by unexpected leaps in delivered product costs.  Many industrial gas users are looking for more attractive sourcing arrangements.   

UIG and UCG offers alternatives

We want to earn your business by offering on-site industrial gases 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. 

We offer two approaches to on-site gas production: 

• UIG sells plants to companies which would like to produce nitrogen and/ or oxygen themselves. 

• UCG builds, owns and operates plants at customer sites to supply these industrial gas products in a utility-like fashion. 

UIG and UCG will work with you to analyze the alternatives so that you can choose the approach which best meets your needs and preferences.  With UIG and UCG, you have choices. 

  Our traditional alternative:
            Purchase a plant from UIG to produce nitrogen, oxygen or other gases 

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 can provide plants on a "turnkey" basis (completely installed and commissioned); or, for customers that wish to handle some of the site engineering and construction on their own, UIG will provide engineering, construction and commissioning support services to assist with critical activities, plus technical training and support for plant operations and maintenance personnel.  UIG also provides ongoing operations and maintenance support services to owner-operators to supplement in-house resources.   

Complementing its new plant offerings, UIG also supplies refurbished and upgraded used industrial gases production plants. These plants are fully-engineered combinations of new and reconditioned components which offer 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 equivalent all-new plant.  

  Our second alternative: 
            On-site production and pipeline delivery of nitrogen and oxygen products by UCG 

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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, in dollar term, is usually hundreds of thousands of dollars a year - and those savings will grow over time . 

If you currently purchase more than a trailerload of liquid nitrogen or oxygen every day (about 16 million SCF per month), you should investigate UCG onsite gas supply. You may be amazed at how much money can be saved.

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, 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 move faster
• We can save you money   

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