About Us

Your Solutions Partner

Nippon Sanso Matheson provides complete customer solutions, offering everything from onsite air separation plants to small portable cylinders and all the services required to support these products and customer applications. Nippon Sanso Matheson has over 300 locations in the U.S. and more than 4500 employees.

Group Philosophy

Proactive. Innovative. Collaborative.
Making life better through gas technology.

Group Vision

We aim to create social value through innovative gas solutions that increase industrial productivity, enhance human well-being and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Nippon Sanso Matheson History

In 1927 Matheson Gas Products became the first company to offer a reliable source of high-quality scientific gases and equipment. From the start, Matheson asserted its leadership by understanding specialty gas applications and providing products specially designed for these applications.

Some of Matheson’s more notable accomplishments include the development of the lecture bottle, now used by virtually every major college and university in the world, and the supply of ultra-pure gases that served as standards for the first gas chromatographs.

History Timeline
1910 Nippon Sanso Corporation Founded in Tokyo, Japan
1927 Matheson Gas Products Founded by Adam Matheson in North Bergen, NJ
1929 Matheson Developed the First Lecture Bottle
1929 Matheson Joined the Compressed Gas Association
1966 Matheson Acquired Grey Chemical, Gloucester, MA
1981 Matheson Received the Semmy Award as the World’s First Commercial Producer of Silane
1983 Matheson is Purchased by Nippon Sanso and AmeriGas/UGI
1987 Tri-Gas Established in Dallas, TX
1988 Matheson Equipment Technology Center Launched in Montgomeryville, PA
1989 Matheson is Fully Owned by Nippon Sanso Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Matheson Acquired Semi-Gas Systems, San Jose, CA
1992 Tri-Gas is Purchased by Nippon Sanso Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
1994 Matheson Acquired BandGap, Longmont, CO (now Advanced Technology Center)
1997 Matheson Gas Products Korea Plant Opened in Cheonan, Korea
1999 Matheson Tri-Gas Formed as Matheson Gas Products and Tri-Gas Merge
2004 Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation Formed as Nippon Sanso Corporation and Taiyo Toyo Sanso Corporation Merge
2004 Matheson Tri-Gas Purchased Six Air Separation Plants from Air Liquide
2006 Matheson Tri-Gas Purchased Linweld, Inc., Lincoln NE
2006 Matheson Tri-Gas Global Helium Formed
2006 Matheson Gas Products Korea Opened in Asan, Korea
2007 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Polar Cryogenics
2008 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Five Star, Cedar Rapids Welding Supply, Aeris, and Advanced Gas Technologies
2009 Matheson Tri-Gas Acquires Valley National Gases and ETOX Welding Supply
2010 Begin Use of MATHESON as Public Brand
2011 MATHESON Acquires Quimby Welding Supplies, Inc.
2012 MATHESON Acquires US Airweld, A&F Welding, Whitmer
2013 MATHESON Acquires Evergreen Supply
2014 MATHESON Acquires Continental Carbonic Products, Inc.
2014 Three New ASUs into Production
2015 MATHESON Acquires Sims Welding Supply, Southern California
2015 MATHESON Adds Operations in Hawaii (ASU and 5 Retail Stores)
2015 MATHESON Acquires 3-D Welding, Texas
2016 MATHESON Adds 18 New ASUs, Four New CO₂ Plants, Two New Nitrous Oxide Plants
2018 MATHESON Acquires Weld Specialty Gas and Equipment, Wisconsin
2019 MATHESON Acquires HyCO Business in Linde Divestiture
2020 MATHESON Parent Company is Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation
2026 MATHESON rebrands to Nippon Sanso Matheson