About Giner/GES Facilities

Giner, Inc. and its subsidiary, Giner Electrochemical Systems, LLC (GES) currently occupy a 24,000-square foot building with well-equipped electrochemical research laboratories and office space in Newton, MA. Giner and GES share a library with a large collection of up-to-date literature in chemistry, electrochemistry, chemical engineering, and biomedical research, and we have access to comprehensive science, engineering, and medical literature and consultants in Boston-area universities.

Engineering and Analytical Services

Giner, Inc. has a machine shop and an electronics shop for the fabrication of special experimental components. We have developed a select network of specialized machine shops in Greater Boston, which supplements the in-house facilities in the fabrication of specialized components and devices. Moreover, Giner, Inc./GES have established working relationships with a number of specialized testing labs giving access as-needed to chemical and materials testing techniques such as Atomic Absorption, Emission Spectroscopy, XRD, TEM, SEM, ESCA, LEED, Auger, etc.

Manufacturing Capabilities

GES productionized its high-pressure electrolyzer technology for customers ranging from the U.S. Government to General Motors Corporation. Also, GES is manufacturing electrolyzer components for leading suppliers of laboratory hydrogen generators.

Giner, Inc. in partnership with Treadwell Corporation won the competition to build high-pressure (20.6 MPa (3000 psig)) PEM electrolytic oxygen generators for life support in the Sea Wolf Class of U.S. Navy Submarines. Giner, Inc. completed successful manufacturing of all the stack components (>5000 components) for six, 100-cell Oxygen Generating Plant (OGP) electrolyzer stacks. This consisted of fabricating catalysts, membrane-electrode assemblies, screen assemblies, separators, pressure pads and gaskets. All of the components were inspected and packaged as subassemblies, and have been assembled into 100-cell units using hardware manufactured by Treadwell Corp. Treadwell Corp. manufactured and qualified the OGP systems for installation and sea trials aboard the Seawolf Submarines.

Major Equipment On Site

Giner, Inc./GES employ a wide range of specialized apparatus, including electrochemical equipment: potentiostats and computerized data acquisition systems; analytical equipment such as a UV/VIS spectrophotometer, gas chromatographs, gas chromatographs/mass spectrometers, BET surface area analyzer, and a variety of membrane, electrode and cell processing equipment and facilities (ovens, presses, clean rooms, plating, assembly, membrane and diffusion media coating equipment and testing).