Dan Byrne founded BSG in 1984 with the goal of providing engineered gas solutions, market applications and world-class service to biotech companies, research and development firms, environmental and medical laboratories and electronics manufacturers.  By 2005, BSG had generated more than $10 million in annual sales and in March of 2006, was acquired by Airgas, the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gas gases, and related hardgoods.  BSG and Airgas continue to supply the Northwest gas community as Airgas-North Pacific. 

Today   Byrne Specialty Gases, 2006 18,000 SF Seattle Facility Gas Cylinder Offerings   BSG at work     Truck loading dock Gas Filling Station on Back Dock BSG Tank Farm         Cylinder Refurbishing Gas Mixing Lab Gas Mixing Lab "octopus"         eGas Control System BSG Customer Lobby BSG Employee Lunch Room   Customer Solutions     Cryo-Freezer Installation at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) Seattle Genetics Installation of High Pressure Gas Supply System at Bristol-Myers Squibb   Secure Biologics     Mission: To provide redundant and secure cryorefrigeration off-site   storage services to the life   sciences industry.     BSG Milestones     10 year anniversary 15 year anniversary 20 year anniversary   1994     Ground breaking of 18,000sf facility, South Andover Street Construction at South Andover Open House Celebration   late 1980s     5 year anniversary 2nd Facility South Mead Street BSG employees   early 1980s     1st Facility South River Street Seattle, Washington BSG was first vendor to put brand on cylinders BSG cylinder vs competitor