B.O.C Kenya Ltd
NNSEKE:BOC186.00
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KE0000000042
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- CEO
- Lawrence Githinji
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: specialty
- Address
- Nairobi Kenya
- IPO Date
- Aug 21, 1997
- Website
- boc.co.ke
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- B.O.C Kenya Plc is a Kenya-based manufacturer and distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, as well as welding products and related engineering services. Founded in 1940 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company operates as a subsidiary of BOC Holdings Limited (a member of Linde plc) and maintains regional operating subsidiaries including BOC Uganda Limited and BOC Gases Tanzania Limited, serving commercial, industrial, healthcare, agricultural, mining, and educational sectors across East Africa. The company operates through three principal business segments: Medical Gases, Industrial Gases, and Welding Products and Services. Its core product portfolio encompasses medical gases and healthcare solutions, including liquid medical oxygen, compressed gaseous oxygen, nitrous oxide, Entonox, carbon dioxide, medical air, and hospital medical gas pipeline systems (MGPS), alongside cryogenic storage vessels, suction units, flowmeters, and pressure regulators; industrial gases, comprising liquid and gaseous oxygen, nitrogen, dissolved acetylene, industrial-grade carbon dioxide, argon, helium, hydrogen, shielding gas mixtures such as Argoshield, food-grade gas mixtures, refrigerant gases, and specialty calibration gases; and welding and cutting products, featuring manual metal arc electrodes, MIG and TIG wires, flux-cored consumables, gas cutting and welding blowpipes, pressure regulators, safety flashback arrestors, personal protective equipment, and plasma cutting accessories. In addition, B.O.C Kenya provides technical and engineering services, including the design, installation, testing, and maintenance of medical gas pipeline networks, cylinder safety inspections, hydro-testing, bulk gas vessel maintenance, telemetry-based remote inventory monitoring, and industrial safety training. In recent developments, the company has navigated a high-profile takeover bid from Carbacid Investments Plc and Aksaya Investments LLP, which underwent extensive legal and regulatory proceedings before the Capital Markets Tribunal and the High Court of Kenya. Operationally, B.O.C Kenya has accelerated capital investments in healthcare infrastructure through the installation of bulk cryogenic medical oxygen storage tanks and pipeline networks across public and private hospitals, modernized its regional cylinder filling and distribution logistics, deployed digital telemetry for automated inventory management, and expanded its portfolio of high-purity specialty gas mixtures to support rising industrial manufacturing, laboratory research, and food preservation applications across the East African Community.