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Chart Ferox Group is a member of Chart Industries, Inc. - a leading global supplier of a wide variety of cryogenic products. Chart Ferox Group consists of two parts – Chart Ferox, a.s. located in Decín, Czech Republic and Chart Ferox GmbH located in Solingen, Germany with approximately 550 employees, and a turnover representing approximately 18% of Chart’s global revenues.

History Details
Cryogenic Milestones

Chart Ferox History Overview
1941-1945	Private company founded by Wilhelm Schmiding
1945-1992	State owned company Cryogenic equipment Air Separations Plants Food industry and agriculture equipment Heat exchangers & other chemical equipment
1992-1998	Majority share holder Air Products and Chemicals Inc., USA (Joint stock company)
1998-1999	Majority held by MVE Inc., USA
April 1999	MVE Inc. including Ferox, a.s. merged into Chart Industries Inc., USA. Majority of shares owned by Chart Industries Inc., USA
2002	Establishing of Chart Ferox GmbH, Solingen, Germany

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History Details

Ferox, a.s. of Decín, Czech Republic, has a history going back to a year of 1941 when it was founded by Wilhelm Schmiding. After the Second World War in 1958 it was integrated into the Škoda Group, in 1965 transferred into another big industrial group - the KSB Group. Following the reorganization of the Czechoslovakian industry Ferox, a.s. became a member of the Brno based Chepos Group in 1965. In October 1992 Ferox, a.s. became a Joint Stock Company, with a majority ownership of Air Products and Chemicals Inc. of USA.

In Feb. 1998 the ownership of the company changed. Air Products - the majority shareholder sold Ferox, a.s.'s shares to MVE Inc (USA), the world’s largest designer and manufacturer of vacuum insulated solutions for the storage and distribution of cryogenic gases.

In June 1999 MVE become a member of Chart Industries, Inc.(USA) - a leading global supplier of standard and custom-engineered products and systems serving a wide variety of low-temperature and cryogenic applications. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Chart has US operations located in nine states and an international presence in Australia, China, the Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Chart manufactures a broad line of cryogenic products for the purification, liquefaction, distribution, storage and application of gases such as helium, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon dioxide, natural gas and other hydrocarbons for final use in a multitude of industrial, commercial and scientific applications. These applications serve many selected markets including biomedical, food, entertainment, aerospace, thermal testing, alternative fuels, vacuum systems and many other industrial end users.

Ferox. is now an engineering and manufacturing company with over 400 employees. It is equipped as a heavy engineering workshop with a wide range of machinery, and a qualified workforce, which can produce standard and custom-made equipment to world industry standards. Ferox is focused on supplying of equipment for storage and transportation of liquefied industrial gases.

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Cryogenic Milestones

1950	First Air Separation Plant
1955	First ASU based on own Ferox's design
1960	First tonnage oxygen plant (167 t/day)
1960	First Helium liquefier
1966	Biological container 600 liters
1968	First vacuum insulated vertical storage tank
1971	Cryogenic semi-trailer
1972	First flat bottom tank
1974	1106 t/d oxygen plant
1980	Liquefier 150 t/d LOX/LIN
1985	Superconducted magnetic separator of china-clay
1991	Superinsulated pallet tank 500 liters
1992	First cold box assembled for big gas company
1996	First large cryogenic tank 200 m³
1998	Large cryogenic tanks: 403 m³ horizontal, 366 m³ vertical
1999	Vacuum insulated piping system
2001	Storage tank for LNG 212 m³
2003	LNG satellite station 1 500 000 liter in three vacuum insulated tanks 500 m³
2003	Liquid hydrogen tank 360 000 liters for European space rocket launch center
2003	20’ ISO container for liquefied cryogenic gases
2003	LNG Semitrailer 56 m³
2005	530 000 liter vacuum insulated air gas tank

• Providing sufficient procedures to cover all activities that affect quality.
• Verifying that approved procedures are adopted by respective personnel.
• Ensuring that the personnel are adequately qualified to carry out their responsibilities.
• Select audit team leaders and schedule the internal audits.

• Coordinate activities related to implementation, maintenance and development of the quality system (QMS) in compliance with EN ISO 9001:2000, PED 97/23/EC and TPED 99/36/EC through defining QMS within the Quality manual and its continuous improvement
• Reporting on the performance of the Quality System to the management Chart Ferox for review as a basic for improvement of the quality system.
• Select NB (notified body) when a product is manufactured according to PED or TPED
• Liaison with external parties on matters related to the suppliers quality system.
• Presentation of the Quality Policy of the Chart Ferox management and making sure that it is understood, implemented and maintained
• Check requirements of EN ISO 9001:2000, PED 97/23/EC and TPED99/36/EC standards specified in the Quality management system through internal quality audits

• Non Destructive Testing capability includes Chemical Composition Analysis of materials using an MS-3 Spectrometer and/or RI X-Ray fluorescent analyses.
• Mechanical Property test facilities covering Hardness, Tensile and Corrosion testing.
• Radiography using X-Ray and/or Gamma Sources.
• Magnetic Particle and Dye Penetrate testing.
• Ultrasonic Thickness and Flaw detection.
• Paint Thickness and Adhesion Testing.
• Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Mass Spectrometer Pressure and Leak Detection Facilities.

Chart Ferox, a.s. has been running Training project in FEROX, a.s. since October 2006 in cooperation with ESF and Czech state budget.

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