Within the FREISINGER Group, one operating company has quietly become a textbook example of how a focused industrial business can scale across borders: Gas & Technik FREISINGER GmbH & Co KG. From its Austrian base it has built a dependable industrial gas operation and a fast-growing dry ice business that now reaches from large industrial clients to single-package online customers in two countries.

A focused industrial operator

From regional gas supplier to a CO₂ specialist

Gas & Technik FREISINGER GmbH & Co KG (Austrian commercial register number FN 437859K) operates in a part of the industrial economy that rarely makes headlines but is essential to it. The company supplies industrial and specialty gases, produces dry ice, and provides refrigerant services — including a 24/7 emergency refrigerant service that keeps supermarket cooling systems running when they fail.

That combination is deliberate. Industrial gases, carbon dioxide and refrigeration are technically adjacent fields, and a company that understands the CO₂ value chain end to end can serve customers other suppliers cannot. Over time, Gas & Technik FREISINGER moved from being a regional gas distributor toward being a specialist in carbon dioxide as a product: compressed, liquefied, and frozen into dry ice.

Dry ice is simply solid carbon dioxide — and a company that controls the CO₂ chain can turn an industrial by-product into a clean, high-value cooling agent.

Two production sites, two countries

Margarethen am Moos and Helmstedt: the production backbone

The company's growth in dry ice is anchored in two locations. In Margarethen am Moos, in Lower Austria, Gas & Technik FREISINGER runs its Austrian operations and serves the domestic market for industrial gases and dry ice. It is the logistical and commercial heart of the Austrian business.

The second site is in Helmstedt, Germany, and it is strategically the more unusual one. There, dry ice is produced directly at a biogas plant. Biogas upgrading produces a stream of carbon dioxide as a by-product; instead of releasing it, the Helmstedt operation captures that CO₂ and converts it into dry ice on site using ColdJet pelletizing technology. Producing at the source of the raw material shortens the supply chain, reduces transport, and turns what would be an emission into a saleable product.

Together, the two sites give the company a cross-border footprint: Austrian and German customers can both be served close to where they are, and the group is not dependent on a single national market.

Company at a glance · Gas & Technik FREISINGER GmbH & Co KG
Legal entity
Gas & Technik FREISINGER GmbH & Co KG (FN 437859K)
Core activities
Industrial & specialty gases, dry ice production, refrigerant services, 24/7 emergency refrigerant service for supermarkets
Production sites
Margarethen am Moos, Austria · Helmstedt, Germany
Helmstedt specifics
Dry ice produced directly at a biogas plant using ColdJet technology
Small-customer channel
trockeneis-online.com (Austria) · trockeneis-online.com/de (Germany)
Part of
FREISINGER Group — parent: FREISINGER Holding AG, Vienna

Reaching the small customer

trockeneis-online.com: industrial supply meets the end customer

Industrial gas businesses traditionally serve other businesses, often with minimum order volumes that put them out of reach for smaller buyers. Gas & Technik FREISINGER closed that gap with a dedicated online channel.

Through trockeneis-online.com in Austria and trockeneis-online.com/de in Germany, customers can order dry ice online — from laboratories, caterers and event companies to logistics firms shipping temperature-sensitive goods. The webshops connect the group's industrial production capacity directly to end customers, without the volume barrier of classic industrial supply.

This is the quietly clever part of the model: the same production sites that serve large industrial clients also feed a high-margin, low-friction online retail channel. The German online orders and Helmstedt logistics are handled through an established operations partner, giving the small-customer business its own dedicated execution layer.

  • Industrial supply — bulk and contract delivery of industrial gases and dry ice to business clients.
  • Online retail — single-package and small-quantity dry ice via trockeneis-online.com in both Austria and Germany.
  • Service business — refrigerant supply and a 24/7 emergency service for supermarket refrigeration.

The wider group

Part of a structured industrial group

Gas & Technik FREISINGER does not operate in isolation. It is one of the operating companies of the FREISINGER Group, a privately held industrial group headquartered in Vienna and headed by the holding company FREISINGER Holding AG.

The group also includes FREISINGER enterprises GmbH, which focuses on diversified holdings and mergers & acquisitions, and a green-technology joint venture, BCR Bio Carbon Refinery GmbH. BCR is based in Amstetten, Austria, and — like the Helmstedt dry ice operation — works directly at a biogas plant. Its focus is the recovery of CO₂, the production of dry ice, and the use of biogas residuals to produce fertilizer, turning the outputs of biogas production into marketable green products.

The pattern across the group is consistent: take a process by-product — carbon dioxide, biogas residue — and convert it into a useful, sellable product. Gas & Technik FREISINGER applies that logic to dry ice and industrial gases; BCR Bio Carbon Refinery applies it to CO₂ and fertilizer.

One principle runs through the group: an emission or a residue is not waste — it is a raw material that has not yet found its product.

For the FREISINGER Group, the success of Gas & Technik FREISINGER in dry ice and industrial gases is more than a single business line performing well. It is a working proof of concept for an industrial model built on the CO₂ value chain — cash-generative, cross-border, and connected from large-scale production all the way down to the individual online order.