NGFS Natural Gas Fueling Solutions Overview
Mueller Heavy Industries · Energy Infrastructure

Changing What Drives America

NGFS designs and builds the production and delivery infrastructure for the fuels that move America next — compressed, liquefied, and renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and carbon capture — on CMCI’s proven general-contracting backbone, reaching 44 states. Today it runs as a division of CMCI; the family’s intent is to stand it up as its own company, wholly owned by Mueller Heavy Industries.

44states [S]
Coverage
125+[S]
Projects delivered
$300M+[S]
Delivered
2012[S]
Founded
The energy vertical of the Mueller Heavy family

A build-and-deliver platform for the fuels that move America next.

NGFS designs and builds the production and delivery infrastructure for alternative vehicle and industrial fuels — compressed and renewable natural gas, hydrogen, and the maintenance facilities that keep clean-fuel fleets running. It is a construction and EPC play on clean energy, riding on CMCI’s proven general-contracting backbone and reaching 44 states [S]. Today it runs as a division of CMCI; the family’s intent is to stand it up as its own company, wholly owned by Mueller Heavy Industries.

01 · What NGFS does — 7 scope areas

Design-build & EPC for alternative-energy fuel infrastructure.

Design-build and EPC for alternative-energy fuel infrastructure [S] — engineer, procure, and construct under one contract, the same single-source model CMCI built its commercial business on. NGFS leverages CMCI’s GC backbone — shared bonding, back office, and project management bench — and points it at the higher-margin clean-fuel market.

CNG
Compressed Natural Gas
Fueling stations for commercial fleets and retail — NGFS’s founding line of work since 2012. [S]
LNG
Liquefied Natural Gas
Liquefied-gas fueling and delivery infrastructure for heavy transport and industrial use. [S]
RNG
Renewable Natural Gas
Renewable / biogas systems — the lowest-carbon fuel pathway in the portfolio. [S]
H₂
Hydrogen
Hydrogen energy systems — next-generation zero-tailpipe fueling infrastructure. [S]
CC
Carbon Capture
Carbon-capture technology integrated into fuel and industrial-energy projects. [S]
PYR
Tire / Coal Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis systems that convert waste tire and coal feedstock into recoverable energy products. [S]
SHOP
Maintenance-Facility Construction & Retrofit
Ground-up construction and retrofit of vehicle maintenance shops for natural-gas fleets — including methane-code shop upgrades that bring existing facilities into compliance for servicing gas-powered vehicles. A nationwide line of work that extends well beyond the fueling island. [S]
Why it wins
Clean-fuel infrastructure is a growth market, and NGFS already meets it with a full EPC capability backed by a general contractor that has delivered for three decades. The breadth — CNG through hydrogen and carbon capture — lets one builder follow fleet and energy customers across every alternative-fuel choice they make.
02 · Leadership & origin — founded 2012

Co-founded in 2012, bridged into CMCI’s bench.

Origin
NGFS was founded in 2012 by Duane Mueller and Herb Tschannen [S] to build CNG and LNG stations for commercial fleet operators and retail fueling across the Midwest. Since then it has diversified, via partners, into the full set of alternative-fuel options and nationwide maintenance-facility work — all on CMCI’s construction backbone.
Leadership today [S]
CEO
Herb Tschannen — co-founder
President
Duane Mueller — co-founder; CEO of CMCI

Duane Mueller bridges both companies — CEO of the construction parent and President of the energy vertical — which is how NGFS taps CMCI’s bonding, bench, and back office.

Delivery team — embedded in the CMCI roster [S]
Program Manager, NGFS
Darren Hoffman
Delivery
Estimator, NGFS
Caleb White
Precon
PM, Fueling Division
Gregg Garrison
Field

NGFS people sit inside the CMCI team page — the structural signature of a division that shares the parent’s bench rather than running a separate organization. [S]

03 · Markets & values — nationwide

One builder, every alternative-fuel customer.

Fleet operators
Commercial and municipal fleets converting to CNG, RNG, and hydrogen — the original NGFS customer, and the largest. [S]
Industrial energy users
Plants and industrial sites that need on-site fueling, energy systems, and carbon-capture integration. [S]
Energy developers
Developers building out alternative-fuel and renewable infrastructure who need an EPC partner. [S]
Values [S]
Safety First
Accountability
Transparency
Partnership

Coverage spans 44 states [S], with the same safety-led, partnership-first delivery culture that defines the Mueller construction family.

04 · Current structure & the decision — board decision

A CMCI division today — an MHI company by intent.

Today
NGFS operates as a division of CMCI [S]. Its current equity sits with the same two principals as the construction parent:
Duane Mueller50% [S]
Bob Cissell50% [S]

From the MHI Platform Overview ownership model — the same 50 / 50 split as CMCI. [S]

The intent [S]
Stand NGFS up as its own company, ending up wholly owned by Mueller Heavy Industries — a clean, dedicated energy vertical under the family holding company.
TODAY
CMCI division
50 / 50 Duane · Cissell
INTENT
MHI entity
wholly owned
Live decision — for the operator / board
How should NGFS be structured going forward? Two viable paths. Both keep NGFS in the family and pointed at the clean-fuel market — the question is the vehicle.
Stand up as its own entity
Option A
A dedicated NGFS company owned directly by MHI.

For

  • Clean energy-vertical identity, distinct from the GC brand
  • Direct MHI ownership — the intended end state
  • A separate capital story for energy investors and lenders

Against

  • Stands up its own bonding, back office, and overhead
  • More structure to build and maintain
Fold in as a CMCI division
Option B · status quo
Keep NGFS as the energy division inside CMCI.

For

  • Shared bonding, back office, and PM bench
  • Simpler — no new entity to stand up
  • Lower overhead; rides the parent’s scale

Against

  • No standalone energy identity or capital story
  • MHI ownership is indirect, through CMCI
The path — research-framed [research]
Moving from the 50 / 50 Duane · Cissell division to a wholly-owned MHI entity implies a Cissell buyout and a contribution of NGFS into MHI. The exact mechanics, valuation, and MHI’s resulting percentage are operator-to-supply and require US counsel — this page does not invent transaction terms or ownership splits beyond the stated 50 / 50.
05 · Value of the Platform — the command layer

NGFS on the Canvas — see it and run it live.

The energy vertical earns its full value when you can see it and run it live. NGFS is a first-class entity on the family canvas — with its own typed connections to CMCI’s backbone and up the ownership chain to MHI — and the work it delivers shows up as live objects, not rows in a spreadsheet. The Executive Intelligence Platform is the command layer that keeps the energy buildout and the family portfolio pointed at the same reality, day to day.

Pipeline on the canvas
The multi-state station and EPC project pipeline — 44 states [S] of CNG, RNG, H₂, and carbon-capture work — lives on the canvas as projects and stages tracked live. Each project is an entity you can drill into; lifecycle and approval state read off the object, not a status email.
Plan · Forecast · What-If
Model the energy buildout forward — station rollout pace and the RNG / H₂ / carbon-capture project mix — with an editable Plan, a Forecast console, and a What-If studio. Pipeline and margin visibility on one surface, the same dashboard discipline CMCI already runs.
Rolls up into the family
NGFS results consolidate up the ownership chain into the MHI command layer — the same live stake-weighted finance roll-up that already carries the operating companies into the family portfolio view. Energy sits in the family P&L picture, not beside it.
Shipped vs roadmap — honest
Live today: the spatial canvas; NGFS and its peers as first-class entities with typed connections; the editable Plan, Forecast console, and What-If studio; and the stake-weighted finance roll-up up the ownership chain. Roadmap for the energy vertical: the NGFS-specific project / pipeline schema — multi-state station and EPC tracking with permit and EPA approval gates as dated milestones — is a configuration of the canvas we will build for NGFS, not a feature that exists for it today. The platform is the proven foundation; the energy-specific views are the build.
The same command layer that runs the rest of the family runs NGFS: projects and stages on the canvas, Plan / Forecast / What-If on the buildout, and results that roll up into MHI. CMCI’s dashboards are the working proof at the construction parent; NGFS plugs the energy vertical into the identical surface.
See how the platform runs the whole family → CMCI dashboards — sibling proof →
06 · How NGFS fits the family — the energy vertical

CMCI builds it, NGFS specializes it, MHI funds and owns it.

CMCI’s GC backbone
Three decades of design-build delivery, bonding capacity, and a seasoned PM and superintendent bench — the foundation NGFS builds on.
MHI capital
The family holding company funds and backs the build-out, turning a division into a fundable, scalable energy business.
A higher-margin vertical
Specialty energy / EPC work carries richer margins than commercial GC — bolted onto the backbone, aimed at the clean-fuel growth market.
How NGFS grows · organic
Natural project growth — more stations and EPC work across the 44-state footprint, and a widening scope mix from CNG and LNG into RNG, hydrogen, and carbon capture as the clean-fuel market pulls toward exactly what NGFS builds.
How NGFS grows · acquisition
Or step-change growth by acquisition — folding in complementary energy-infrastructure builders or capabilities under the family umbrella to add geography, scope, or scale faster than organic build alone.
CMCI builds it, NGFS specializes it, and MHI funds and owns it. The same flywheel that runs across the family — the builder puts construction value into the operating companies, cash flows up to MHI, and MHI funds the next project — applies to the energy vertical, with the added pull of a market that is growing toward exactly what NGFS delivers.
View CMCI → The family overview →
On the numbers & what to firm up

Confidence-labelled, honest about what to firm up.

On the facts & what to firm up
Claims on this page are confidence-labelled: sourced / operator-stated [S], defensible assumptions [A], and research-derived [research]. The headline figures — 44 states, 125+ projects, and $300M+ delivered — are marketing-reported company facts [S] from secondary profiles, not audited. The current 50 / 50 Duane Mueller · Bob Cissell split is [S] from the MHI Platform Overview. Firm up before external use: the own-entity-vs-division question is an operator / board decision; and the path to a wholly-owned MHI entity — the Cissell buyout, the valuation, and MHI’s resulting percentage — is operator-to-supply via US counsel and is not assumed here.