The history of TGE begins in December 1980 with the founding of Liquid Gas International GmbH (LGI) in Bonn. The engineers and founders Horst Schirack, Dr. Alfred Neugebauer and Vladimir Puklavec – one of today’s TGE shareholders – decided to put their know how, expertise and practical experience together and to open new paths for the oil-, gas and shipping industries by a novel concept of ideas. In the beginning, the company specialized in the construction of liquefaction units for gas tankers. With the construction of a 2 x 25,000 m³ LPG terminal in Taiwan, at the end of the 1980s, the company received its first land contract and thus laid the foundation for today’s business.