Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is an illegal drug in the Netherlands. Yet Dutch streets are inundated with empty canisters, often labelled “FastGas”. Where do the canisters come from, and who is behind this brand?
Just one more hour before the start of 2025. In front of the door of a townhouse in the centre of Utrecht, a queue of young people. They’ve heard this is the “maddest” party house. Two men in their forties slip through the youngsters and head inside, both clutching an inflated red balloon.
Nitrous oxide
Called “lachgas” in Dutch, the obvious translation is “laughing gas”. Whilst this is perfectly correct, especially in the context of recreational use, it is commonly referred to as “nitrous oxide” in a more formal setting in English such as this article.
“Maddest”
“Lijpst” from “lijp”. Slang for cool and also for being high. In this case an English equivalent could be “cool” or “wicked”.Upstairs, the men with the balloons in their sporty, casual outfits plop down in a room where a black-and-white film is being shown. “Away from all the loud music,” one of them says. He inhales the gas from the balloon; the other does so too. They keep inhaling until the balloon is empty. Silently they stare ahead, bleary eyed.
“D’you also need some,” the man asks another partygoer. Then, laughing: “But careful—after one, you won’t be able to stop.” From beneath his chair, he pulls out a two-kilogram nitrous oxide canister and fills the balloon with gas from it.
He puts the opening of the balloon in his mouth. “Check, it’s spacing him out,” the man says in a low voice caused by the gas he’s inhaled. The two men carry on filling balloons with nitrous oxide, breathing it in, staring and bursting into laughter. They each have their own canister.
What these two men did that New Year’s Eve is forbidden. It has been illegal to possess, sell and transport nitrous oxide in the Netherlands since 1 January 2023. Nitrous oxide is an illegal party drug in the country. Yet you see plenty of canisters at parties and, once empty, in the streets: neatly packed in plastic shopping bags from Action, a discount store outside town in Vijfheerenlanden, hastily dumped next to a rubbish container in Amsterdam or in a gym car park after hours in Rotterdam North.
Vijfheerenlanden
This illustrates how canister pollution is dealt with in different contexts in the Netherlands. Whilst people outside the Netherlands will be somewhat familiar with Amsterdam and Rotterdam, they certainly won’t be familiar with Vijfheerenlanden, a typical Dutch municipality where people are less likely to litter casually than in larger cities.According to the waste sector, some 250,000 nitrous oxide canisters litter Dutch streets every year. More than nine out of 10, according to them, are black steel canisters, often weighing about two kilograms. They have bright yellow or black rubber bands around them, with a handle, and FastGas emblazoned in large white capitals.
But where do these canisters come from? Who is behind FastGas? The Dutch newspaper NRC and its Belgian counterpart Le Soir investigated the provenance of the canisters. It turns out that three young Dutchmen are at the helm of an international empire. Their nitrous oxide is sold around the world. Yet there is hardly any large-scale oversight of the nitrous oxide trade by the Dutch police, judiciary and customs.
Bungee jump
The FastGas story starts on the coastline of Spain, in 2012, with a group of Dutch students handing out flyers and tickets on the beach, working as touts in Lloret de Mar and Blanes, enticing young people to the wildest parties, to clubs, bars—and bungee jumps.
Touts “Propper” is a Dutch word for people who hand out flyers, tickets and so on. Translations range from the tedious and far-longer “flyer distributor” to “club promoter” or “tout”. This last has the snappiness of “propper” and a hint of pushiness, appropriate for this context. Over the following summers the students acquired more responsibilities. They recruited other students to hand out flyers on a website called proppers.nl. They became event managers, organised parties and set up small companies in Spain and the Netherlands. Until they realised how they could get really rich. One of them, Luciano de Vries, talked about this moment in the University of Groningen newspaper: “I got a call from a supplier asking if I wanted a surplus pallet of laughing gas canisters he had.”
De Vries was reading tax law in Groningen, a member of the student fraternity Vindicat and doing a master’s degree in Rotterdam. After getting back from Spain, he carried on trading nitrous oxide with his tout friends. In an old Hyundai H200, he drove with one of them to Poland, Belgium and Czechia, looking for cheap consignments, they told Dutch newspaper AD. Eventually a total of five friends moved into one house. Their timing was excellent: nitrous oxide was still legal in the Netherlands in July 2016.
Vindicat Students in Groningen are usually members of a fraternity. This one is old and powerful, comparable to an old boy’s club.On their sales website slagroompatronen-bestellen.nl, or orderwhippedcreamcanisters.nl, they have claimed for years to be looking for whipped cream canisters for “the best whipped cream”.
Their logistics were well organised. One hundred canisters for 33.98 euros, one hundred balloons for 5.99 euros and delivered the next day if ordered before 5pm, they promised. A 100-kilogram nitrous oxide canister “for parties” was priced at 2,195 euros, all inclusive.
“I supply canisters to almost all the bars in Groningen selling nitrous oxide,” De Vries boasted in the same interview in the university newspaper in 2018. He was 28 years old at the time. “We’re growing, I think at 50 percent a month. It’s almost impossible to keep up; Groningen has gone mad”. The touting work they’d done on the Spanish riviera was paying off nicely. They had made friends from all over the world. And now they had customers in Ibiza, Surinam, the UK, Denmark, Morocco, he said. They worked 70 or 80 hours a week. De Vries: “Who knows? Nitrous oxide might be outlawed. Until then we want to get as much out of it as we can.”
Ex on the beach
Groningen wasn’t the only place that went mad during that period. Consumption of nitrous oxide peaked throughout the Netherlands in 2018 and 2019. One young woman in Rotterdam was earning some 200 euros a day as a runner at the time, she told NRC on a March afternoon earlier this year. Over time, small steel cylinders were replaced with refillable gas canisters which could fill several balloons in succession, she said. A friend asked her to store the greyish blue canisters in her shed, in cardboard boxes. “I had 60 or 70 of those canisters upstairs and I think something like that downstairs in the shed.”
Runner “Koerier”, or courier in English. This word is used in Dutch to refer to someone who transports drugs (drugskoerier).For two years she drove around Rotterdam in a Volkswagen Polo from 10 at night until nine in the morning.
Her friend messaged her the time and place—a car park at the Willemsbrug bridge or next to the iconic modernist cube houses. She sold 10 to 12 canisters a night. “I kept seeing new faces, mostly young people. It just went on and on, endlessly.”
Around 11 in the morning she would do another round, for the afterparties. Young people paid her 80 euros for 45-euro canisters. While her earnings were 200 euros a day; the rest would go to the dealer. The more customers they found, the cheaper the canisters the dealer could buy. She didn’t know where he sourced them, she said.
The canisters in her car were hidden under a blanket. She drove over the Belgian border with them, past police checks. “He also sold other drugs, but I wouldn’t take them with me.” When she didn’t hear anything from him for a month, it turned out he had been arrested. “And suddenly he was back, and everything carried on as though nothing had happened.”
After two years she found a “quiet job” and ended her wild life as a runner. She doesn’t want people to know about her former work.
In these boom years, Deniz Üresin rode around Amsterdam with cargo bikes packed with canisters, selling individual balloons. This earned him millions but also resulted in a constant stream of fines and letters from the municipality of Amsterdam. They wanted to get rid of the nitrous oxide sellers because of the noise pollution and the balloons left lying around.
This earned him... This sentence is more elegant in Dutch as the verb “opleveren” works for both halves of the sentence. Since it doesn’t quite work in English, the translator has rendered it as “earnt” and “resulted”In his large waterside flat, Üresin recalled all this with a broad smile. He’s wearing a tank top and shorts. A chain around his neck is adorned with the word “king.” There is an outdoor gym on his covered balcony. He makes tea while recounting how it was. Like a Hollywood film, he says. “We sold everything. It was called UFO gas, something extraterrestrial, ha ha.” He had his people in Turkey. When he needed something in a hurry, he would call one of his tout friends. “He helped me out when I ran out of laughing gas—which happened on the odd occasion.”
He had his people... The Dutch expression is “je hebt adresjes in X”. The first translation of this was “He had contacts in Turkey”; but “contacts” was later replaced with “his people”, which feels more idiomatic.The five friends who were at the top of the business in the Netherlands didn’t drive nitrous oxide canisters across the border at the dead of night; they didn’t wait for customers at drafty car parks; they didn’t stand on city squares with cargo bikes nor did they still go around Groningen student houses and pubs peddling cartridges.
Instead, they had a wholesale business in Gorinchem. There, dealers were called buyers and were given invoices. In articles in the media, the five are called “successful entrepreneurs” and Üresin “a rascal”. Üresin remembers them as “guys with money” from who you could buy “large consignments of laughing gas”. “100, 500, 1,000 kilograms”.
Someone who did business with the five at the time confirmed their position. “There were only two or three wholesalers of that kind”. Dealers bought canisters or refilled them and casually slapped on a sticker with their own brand. The friends started their own brand, FastGas, and applied for a registered trademark.
In the summer of 2019 the five organised a party for 150 invitees to thank their employees. It was held in a garden with a swimming pool, right behind the wholesale business in Gorinchem. Intermingled with the revellers were men of unusually short stature in suits. Most employees wore swimming shorts. Tall, slender women in red miniskirts handed out drinks. Lena Semenova, famous from the Dutch dating programme Ex on the beach and by her own account addicted to nitrous oxide at the time, performed. Large, pink balloons passed from person to person.
A dollop of whipped cream
The boom had multiple downsides. Streets, festival grounds, and parks were awash with silver cartridges and canisters. There were young people driving whilst intoxicated, getting involved in fights. According to the Dutch police, tens of thousands of public order violations each year involved nitrous oxide. Some municipalities had enough and from 2019 started using event permits to ban sale of the gas.
Health minister Paul Blokhuis of the Christian Union party, grew concerned and appointed a commission to investigate. Reporting back at the end of 2019 the commission wrote that 15 percent of Dutch 20- to 24-year-olds at the time had used nitrous oxide. The number of related “serious health incidents” was rising—comas, spinal cord lesions, paralysis, burns. The runner in Rotterdam stopped using balloons when she felt a persistent “tingling” on the left side of her body. And yes, you can get hooked. Deniz Üresin could no longer do without it and sought treatment.
The commission’s conclusion was severe. Compared to other drugs, nitrous oxide had “major risks”. It was recommended that use be discouraged and availability restricted.
Following the commission’s advice, the minister concluded that nitrous oxide should not be outlawed as a substance. Instead, a month after the report was published, he announced that nitrous oxide would be banned for “improper recreational use”. The gas was added to List II of the Opium Law, alongside hash, cannabis and magic mushrooms. “Proper applications” weren’t covered by the ban. Blokhuis said, “After all, it should still be normal to order a dollop of whipped cream with your apple tart.”
But how do you know if a cartridge or canister is meant for proper or improper use? How do you ban a gas in any case? How do you enforce a ban on something that is both legal and illegal? According to experts, the Netherlands was the first country in the world to try to ban the intoxicant. Legal specialists would have to figure out the details themselves.
Drafting the legislation took years. Official documents requested by stakeholders have revealed that this is partly because key players in government were sceptical. The Council of State worried that “a general prohibition [would be] complex”; government prosecutor Pels Rijken considered “it certainly possible” that the ban wouldn’t stand up in court; and staff at the Public Prosecutor’s Office thought it “insufficiently clear” what would constitute a criminal offence.
Prohibition The Dutch word “verbod” has been elsewhere translated more informally as “ban”. Here, “prohibition” has been used instead to convey the formal language used by the Council of State.Nitrous oxide was ultimately banned in the Netherlands as a party drug on 1 January 2023. You may no longer have, transport, sell, let alone produce it. You can’t have more than a single filled balloon. You can still use nitrous oxide for whipped cream. That’s exempt.
By the time of the ban, laughing gas king Deniz Üresin had already quit for several years.
He saw customers end up in a wheelchair and gave talks to young people and doctors about the risks of the party drug. “I couldn’t justify it all to myself anymore. I just wanted to feel good again.”
What did the five do? The onetime students, housemates and tout buddies were in their thirties by now, serious players in the nitrous oxide business—with a conviction in Belgium.
On 22 November 2021, a court in Antwerp ruled that companies belonging to the men had overstepped Belgian rules for storage, registration and supervision of nitrous oxide. According to the verdict, this represented a “danger to public health”. It had nothing to do with whipped cream; according to the Belgian judge, it was “improper use” of nitrous oxide as a “dangerous intoxicant”. They were fined 124,000 euros.
This did nothing to stop them. At the end of 2022, the FastGas website proudly proclaimed that with more than 200 workers, they delivered canisters to forty countries on three continents. By their own account, they were “one of the largest suppliers of nitrous oxide […] in the world”.
Now that nitrous oxide had been banned in the Netherlands, would the friends give up their cash cow, as they had once planned?
Seaman’s house
On 7 January 2023—six days after the Dutch nitrous oxide ban took effect—a 16-year-old Panamanian container ship set sail in the dark from the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam into the North Sea. According to international shipping and freight databases, the ship sailed for five weeks before docking in one of the world’s largest freight terminals: Long Beach, California.
The ship brought more than 18,000 tonnes of nitrous oxide canisters into the United States, according to the same data. The shipper? A company from Rotterdam. It wasn’t the only cargo sent by this company after the Dutch ban came into effect. Another shipment went to California at the start of January and according to the shipping and freight data, 20,000 kilograms went to Nigeria in April of that year (contents: “inorganic oxygen compounds”) and the same amount again in May (contents: “FastGas (dinitrogen oxide)”).
The Rotterdam-based company is registered in a former Catholic seaman’s house on the river Maas, overlooking the Erasmusbrug bridge, along with another 271 companies at the same address, according to the official registry of companies in the Netherlands. Inquiries have revealed that the building has four office spaces on the ground floor. The company’s email address and telephone number are out of service. Its most recent annual report is from 2022. The day before the nitrous oxide ban took effect, the company from Rotterdam suddenly came under the control of three Malta-based firms set up by three of the friends.
The original group of tout friends had fallen apart by this point. One is based in Amsterdam, where he rents out a luxury superyacht in the Mediterranean—with add ons including the option of a helicopter or private jet, and on board security staff. He is still doing this, he told us on the telephone. Another started trading in vapes.
But three of the five carried on: Luciano de Vries, Nick Houwen and Jesse van der Heide. They emigrated to Portugal—their love for the coast has continued. The day before the ban came in, they moved their nitrous oxide headquarters to Malta. Confronted with the shipping data, they said the shipments to California were finalised before the ban, and the customer was responsible for transport. One consignment was postponed by the shipping company. The shipment to Nigeria went via Malta. “Why the customer in Nigeria used incorrect import docs is a mystery to us.”
The nitrous oxide company in Malta is called Ramdon, headed by a Maltese director. A separate subsidiary and office were set up in New York to sell FastGas, as well as the brands Exotic Whip and Magic Whip, which are less well known in the Netherlands. The trio also use another company to sell vapes. They are no longer wholesalers and, by their own account, aren’t even directors anymore. Other people have taken on day-to-day leadership. It is now mostly behind the scenes that they build their nitrous oxide empire.
“Go fast or go home”
In June 2024, the company name Ramdon appeared on all the black-and-white canisters, including those on the streets of the Netherlands: “FastGas by Ramdon”. By their own account, two million FastGas canisters were sold in 2023, with quality controlled production from “our factories with European standards.”
One such factory is in the south of Poland—the Horeca Solutions Group. De Vries, Houwen and Van der Heide are the owners of this factory. The main product, according to the factory website, is “a gas-filled cylinder made of steel or aluminium,” filled with nitrous oxide, amongst other things.
An administrative employee confirmed on the telephone that the factory produces FastGas, Exotic Whip “and sometimes also Magic Whip”. This factory has also made dozens of shipments of nitrous oxide to the United States, according to cargo information. The factory made a profit of some 3.4 million euros in 2023, with 2.7 million euros paid out as dividends.
Less than half an hour from the factory, the Dutchmen have their own international transport company called Holf. Specialising in transporting hazardous substances, it ships cargoes of gas worldwide using lorries, ships and aeroplanes. The marketing (“Go fast or go home!”) is also something De Vries, Houwen and Van der Heide have for some time been doing themselves, through their PR company Not That Agency.
The men operate from countries including Malta, Portugal, Poland and the United States, with another branch in Mauritius.
How does FastGas end up in the Netherlands? And how is it possible that the canisters are still openly advertised in the Netherlands on websites such as lachgas-voordeel.nl? The site is in Dutch, directed at people in the Netherlands but with stocks in Germany. The German website lachgasdeutschland.de sells several of the three friends’ nitrous oxide brands. The WhatsApp function on the website welcomes you in English. The warehouse is on the German side of the border. The owner is a Dutchman.
According to experts NRC spoke to, the trio likely use their own lorries to transport canisters from their Polish factory to near the Dutch border in Germany, where nitrous oxide is legal. The Dutchmen also own a company in Germany. Via wholesalers on the border, canisters are then snuck across the border by other people in delivery vans.
This is exactly what was happening on a Tuesday in April this year.
From the Dutch town of Venlo, it is 15-minutes’ drive to the lachgasdeutschland.de warehouse near the German village of Wachtendonk. At the end of a cul-de-sac, between residential and commercial buildings, there is a large grey depot with a white container outside.
The door of the container is open. Inside, the shelves are stacked with canisters of Exotic Whip and FastGas, in strawberry and coconut flavour. A cardboard display near the window shows illustrations of cannabis buds in all shapes and sizes (“Alien OG”, “Green Gelato”).
A Dutchman with a black bumbag is sitting inside in front of a screen. He is friendly but won’t give his name and bats away questions. No, the Rotterdam owner of the wholesaler won’t either, he says. Do many Dutch people visit? “Yes, some do. They’re allowed to buy what they want in Germany. Same as fireworks.” And Belgians? “Also. Everyone gets a hotel room.”
This is unlikely. Wachtendonk (population: 8,000 inhabitants) isn’t a tourist hotspot. More likely, the canisters go back with them across the border. A neighbour sees “dozens of Dutch people” visit the wholesaler, mostly youngsters, “especially at night and in the weekends”.
On the sandy ground in front of the warehouse is a Volkswagen Crafter, with the name in black of a well-known Rotterdam van rental company, which only hires and takes back vehicles in that city. The van has a payload capacity of more than a thousand kilograms. A man in a black tracksuit reverses it into the warehouse.
It stays there the entire time our reporter is in front of the building.
Rip deal
Has the ban helped reduce the use and supply of nitrous oxide in the Netherlands? It depends on who you ask. The police are satisfied. The number of incidents involving nitrous oxide in public spaces dropped from more than 41,000 in 2020 to less than 10,000 in 2023.
An analysis by NRC of 32 court cases from 2024 and early 2025 involving nitrous oxide shows that police usually encounter the gas by chance; during a violent so-called rip deal robbery, or when a dealer speeds off after spotting officers. In most cases, nitrous oxide appears alongside cocaine, other drugs, and violence. NRC found no evidence of major criminal investigations targeting nitrous oxide suppliers.
Rip deal
Dutch often borrows terms from English but they sometimes change in meaning (e.g. a ‘parking’ is ‘a parking lot’).Jan Brouwer, professor of public order law at the University of Groningen, is more critical than the police. According to him, it is difficult for the overstretched police to prove whether nitrous oxide is for recreational purposes or the hospitality industry. “The nitrous oxide ban might be legally watertight, but in practice it is very easy for gas suppliers to circumvent the law,” he says.
Nitrous oxide can be supplied to companies listed in the company register as a café, restaurant or for example with “SBI code 46.39—wholesale food general”. This is exactly how the trio’s company in the old seaman’s house is listed in the register. Does this ever actually happen? Are FastGas’ popular two-kilogram canisters used by anyone at all in the world for something other than a party drug?
Definitely not for whipped cream, three Austrian experts argue in a conversation on Teams. They work for iSi, a renowned Viennese company that sells gas canisters and pressure containers for whipped cream, sauces, cocktails and soda in more than eighty countries. In the Netherlands, they supply the giant hospitality wholesaler Sligro.
It is technically possible, the experts say to use the gas for this purposes, but it is such a bother that no cook does so. They researched it. If you wanted to use two-kilogram canisters such as the FastGas ones for whipped cream then you would have to technically adjust the siphons and dose the gas, which is complicated. Cooks don’t have time for fiddling about.
And at home? Wolfgang Ettenauer, one of the Austrian experts, shakes his head. “One canister is enough for 10 years of domestic use.”
“Avoid inhalation”
FastGas certainly can’t be used for medical use, either. The canisters are marked “food grade gas”—not for anaesthesia at the dentist. “Avoid inhalation of the gas”, the label also reads. Together with its competitor Keyser, iSi collaborates with authorities in Europe to prevent misuse of nitrous oxide or N2O—including the Dutch Ministry of Health. Ettenauer is firm: “FastGas’s intention is the misuse of N2O”. When asked by NRC and Le Soir, Ramdon didn’t want to explain how you could use the FastGas two-kilogram canisters for whipped cream.
The Dutch waste sector is also critical of the trio. Nitrous oxide canisters can no longer be reused or returned for a deposit since the ban was introduced. So they are thrown away instead. Waste disposal incinerators now have the best insight of anyone into their use. At the Amsterdam waste company AEB, “some 95 percent” of canisters are from FastGas.
In Gothenburg in Sweden the proportion is “certainly 90 percent” of nitrous oxide canisters, a process manager says. In the Danish capital, Copenhagen, it is 98 percent.
FastGas is partly responsible for “one of the biggest crises in the waste sector in recent years”, according to Bas Hemmen, manager of AEB’s logistics department. The heat in the ovens causes pressure to mount in the canisters and they explode. The blast is sometimes so intense that an entire oven is put out of action. Which is why rubbish is now sometimes first shredded: the canisters are flattened so they can no longer explode. This cost AEB 30 million euros in 2024, it says. In the Netherlands as a whole, the cost is 150 million euros a year. This has led to an increase in the municipal waste levy by 15 to 20 euros per household.
AEB tried to contact the FastGas men. They could prevent explosions by replacing the brass pins in the valves with plastic valves. No explosions; no high social costs. AEB says the trio weren’t interested. They didn’t want to respond.
At the beginning of this year, the men behind FastGas moved further into the shadows. Luciano de Vries, Nick Houwen and Jesse van der Heide’s parent company in Rotterdam moved to Malta and was renamed. And the name of a Maltese go-between—secretary, representative, director, front man—appeared on official documents.
On their personal websites and in PR interviews the nitrous oxide entrepreneurs now describe themselves as “angel investors”, “business moguls”, “visionaries” or “tech magnates”, sharing inspiring stories about perseverance, personal growth and leadership. They proudly mention the sauna or IT company they have invested in, their yacht rental business in Ibiza, generous gifts to an animal sanctuary in Portugal. Nothing more about the source of their wealth: nitrous oxide.
In April, NRC spoke briefly with Luciano de Vries on the telephone. “We honestly have nothing more to do with the gas. We’ve got people for that.” He said he moved to Portugal during the first week of the nitrous oxide ban in the Netherlands. “In hindsight, it wasn’t a bad decision— it’s wonderful here,” he said.
Original article ‘Hoe drie Nederlandse dertigers de wereld van lachgas voorzien’ published by NRC on 19 June 2025
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Where do all those empty nitrous oxide canisters in the streets come from?
This question led NRC and Le Soir to investigate nitrous oxide. Possession of the gas is forbidden in the Netherlands and Belgium. More than two years after the ban went into effect, we investigated whether it is actually working, who the players in the nitrous oxide market are and where you can buy nitrous oxide canisters. One brand soon stood out: FastGas; it was everywhere. Ownership was traced back to three young Dutchmen.
For the investigation we used shipping and cargo information from databases such as Sayari and Pandjiva and sites where ships’ routes can be followed.
Experts helped us to assess their reliability. We used trade and real estate documents, information from defunct websites, news articles, online videos and social media. We spoke to people involved and international experts, attended a trial, visited European waste incinerators, read documents which had been requested under the Dutch Open Government Act, analysed trials related to nitrous oxide and visited relevant places.
Right of Reply
From early April this year, NRC and Le Soir repeatedly requested an interview with Luciano de Vries, Nick Houwen and Jesse van der Heide without success.
Neither did they want to answer individual questions. Their reply to a list of written questions was minimal and selective. When pressed, they explained the shipping data in the article, as well as several documents. Their explanation has been incorporated into the article. The trio firmly deny involvement in illegal deliveries after the Dutch ban went into effect. Their Rotterdam-based company always operated within the law, they claim. It is also “incorrect and legally simplistic to assess our actions exclusively from a Dutch perspective”. Nitrous oxide, for instance, is legal in many other countries.
They moved their headquarters from Rotterdam to Malta because of “the unfriendly and opaque business environment” in the Netherlands.
They didn’t dispute that the information on their websites is sometimes incorrect. “100-kilogramme canisters don’t exist. Was probably once on the website.” The factory in Amsterdam currently mentioned on the Exotic Whip website doesn’t exist, and they will change the website to reflect this—“thanks for the tip”. They deny having done business with former nitrous oxide dealer Deniz Üresin.
FastGas has nothing to do with the problems in the waste sector, according to them.
They are, after all, not the only nitrous oxide company. And it was the Dutch government that banned refillable cylinders with a deposit. The government should focus “on combatting illegal imports”. It should consult with companies such as theirs, which “operate legally, safely and responsibly”.
The two former business partners who stopped before the ban didn’t want to answer any questions.
The Rotterdam owner of the German wholesaler in Wachtendonk didn’t respond to requests for contact by telephone, email and via LinkedIn.
Neither did Ramdon answer any questions, although it did send a “factsheet” through a Danish PR company.
Ramdon dissociates itself from “any misuse” of nitrous oxide. It tries to prevent canisters from “ending up in illegal markets”. The company is focused on restaurants and cafés and doesn’t sell to consumers. Its products are intended, for example, for whipped cream. It refuses to say how a two-kilogram canister can be used to make whipped cream. Ramdon “strongly denounces any irresponsible use of its products and is open to collaboration with the relevant authorities.”
