Puregas imports specialty gas equipment to Southern Africa

Gas supplier Puregas has begun importation of speciality gas equipment from Matheson Tri-Gas, in the US, for speciality applications in South Africa. Puregas will supply Matheson's range of gas and gas equipment products into niche markets in southern Africa.

Supplying Matheson products offers a significant growth opportunity for Puregas, while allowing Matheson to extend its global reach into a new region. Puregas business development manager Alex Wasielewski explains, "While Puregas management is very excited by prospects of rapid growth, there is also a resolve to achieve this in a sensible fashion without losing focus on the company's core business,"

"The equipment being imported is aimed at the laboratory market, where considerations of gas purity, consistence in gas flow and precision are factors of primary importance," says Wasielewski. "The product lines consist mainly of high purity gas regulators for various services, such as corrosive gas service, ultra-high purity gas service and flammable gas service."

Through the new partnership, a range of over 100 different high purity gas regulators is available to the South African market, and can be matched to any conveyable application in a laboratory environment.

"Puregas has also begun importing complex primary gas standards for use, for example, in the development of analytical techniques, which in turn are used in the calibration of industrial processes," says Wasielewski. "Matheson has a very strong reputation globally in the manufacture and certification of these very exact kinds of gas standards."

"Matheson's equipment and gas products are very well recognized internationally and in South Africa as being of very high quality," says Wasielewski. "The Matheson brand has developed over more than 80 years, and the market recognizes that considerable expertise in gas delivery systems and gas, be it pure or blended, is contained within the products that are marketed."