Westfalen AG
Westfalen AG, headquartered in Münster, Westphalia operates as a retailer in the liquefied petroleum gas (Westfalengas) and fuel sectors and as a manufacturer of industrial gases.
In 1936 they began developing the factory premises on Industrieweg and within two years a new air separation unit, a bulk storage tank and an administration building had all been put into operation.
Two years later a new liquid gas filling plant and an acetylene production system were put into operation at this same facility.
In 2000 a hydrogen production plant was put into operation in collaboration with another company, SRS Schmierstoffraffinerie Salzbergen GmbH.
In 2006 Westfalen AG took over the Kuwait Petroleum Deutschland GmbH service stations that operate under the Markant brand.
The same year saw the Westfalen Group's biggest foreign investment to date: the air separation plant in Le Creusot, France, started production.
[3] In September 2012, as one of the S1000plus projects supported by Westfalen AG, a successful car journey of over 1,365.5 kilometres on LPG took place without refuelling.
[16] From the beginning of April 2017 until his passing in October 2017, Alexander Fritsch-Albert was member of the Westfalen Group Executive Board.
[17] In mid-June 2017, Chopstix Noodle Bar opened the first German restaurant at a Westfalen service station in Münster.
[22] Since it was founded in 1923, Westfalen AG has developed industrial gases from regional through to European-oriented suppliers, with branches, sales offices, warehouses and facilities as well as subsidiaries in France, Benelux, Austria and Switzerland.
The range of industrial gases include standard purities of argon, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and compressed air.
[24] The speciality gases on offer are high-purity grade argon, helium, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, synthetic air, nitrous oxide (laughing gas), methane and propane.
[25] Gases for medical and pharmaceutical use and for inhalation include liquid and gaseous oxygen for ventilation and dinitrogen monoxide as an anaesthetic.
[27] These gases are all produced using air separation at Hörstel in the Tecklenburg region, Westphalia, in Laichingen (near Ulm) and in Le Creusot in France.
Westfalengas is used by private households and companies for heat generation; in industry, craft and agriculture is it used as an energy source.
[34] Westfalen AG operates around 260 brand name service stations in Germany, predominantly in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
This card is accepted at over 5,500 service stations including the Westfalen, Agip, Aral, AVIA, Markant, OMV and Total brands.
[35] The Westfalen Group is operating with a total of 23 subsidiaries and associates in Germany, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland – with more than 20 production sites located across Europe.
The central component of the Westfalen AG word and image logo is a leaping, white horse on a red background.
