31 Facts About Air Liquide

Air Liquide S A, is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers.

Air Liquide's headquarters are in Paris, and it has major sites in Japan, Houston, Newark, Delaware, Frankfurt, Shanghai and Dubai.

In 1906, Air Liquide began operations in Belgium and Italy, followed by Canada, Japan and Hong Kong.

In 1938, Air Liquide acquired La oxigena S A and started its activities in Argentina.

In 1943, under the aegis of engineer Emile Gagnan and Lieutenant-Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Air Liquide manufactured scuba set prototypes that Cousteau and Frederic Dumas used to shoot the underwater film Epaves, directed by Cousteau the same year.

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In 1946, Air Liquide founded La Spirotechnique, a design and marketing company for regulators and other diving equipment.

In 1957, Air Liquide began its activity in the large industry and created networks of pipelines irrigating several large industrial basins in the world.

In 1986, Air Liquide expanded into the United States with the acquisition of Big Three for $1.

In 2003, Air Liquide formed a joint venture with The BOC Group in Japan, thus creating Japan Air Gases and strengthening the group's presence in the Far East.

In 2004, Air Liquide acquired two-thirds of Messer Griesheim's global activities, consisting of operations in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, for $2.

In 2007, Air Liquide acquired the activities of Linde Gas in the United Kingdom, as well as the German engineering company, Lurgi, for €550 million, which doubled the engineering capacity of the group.

In early 2008, Air Liquide entered a long-term contract with Neste Oil's Renewable Diesel Plant to supply hydrogen.

In 2012, Air Liquide created a joint venture with the Belgian group Solvay, to produce fluorinated gases for flat screens and photovoltaic panels.

In 2013, Air Liquide created ALIAD, a venture capital investor, with the objective to invest in start-ups and future technologies specializing in the energy transition, health and digital sectors.

Air Liquide was established the same year in the Air Liquide innovation laboratory in Paris, the i-Lab, launched in 2013 to support and share innovation across the group.

In November 2015, Air Liquide announced it would acquire the American firm Airgas for a total of $13.

In December 2016, Air Liquide sold its subsidiary Aqua Lung International to Montagu Private Equity.

In 2016, Air Liquide announced a new strategic plan called Neos, with an important focus on digital transformation.

Skagerak Energi belongs to Statkraft Today, Air Liquide therefore has 54 biogas stations in northern Europe and it has installed one of the world's largest biogas liquefaction plants in Sweden .

In 2017, Air Liquide signed an agreement with Cargill to build a biodiesel plant in Kansas, US.

In February 2018, Air Liquide launched the world's largest oxygen production unit for Sasol, an international energy and chemicals company.

In September 2018, Air Liquide inaugurated its Paris Innovation Campus, located on the "Plateau de Saclay", near Paris.

On this occasion, Air Liquide announced the creation of a deep-tech start-up accelerator on the Innovation Campus by 2019.

Air Liquide generates about a third of its sales revenue by supplying the large industry : chemicals, petrochemicals, metallurgy and refining.

In February 2018, Air Liquide launched the world's largest oxygen production unit for Sasol, an international energy and chemicals company.

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Finally, through its subsidiary Air liquide Medical Systems, Air Liquide is a manufacturer of medical equipment .

Air Liquide has a plant located just outside Kennedy Space Center that provides gaseous nitrogen via two systems, an air separation system for standard daily needs and a launch support system for periods of higher demand.

Air Liquide developed a helium cooling process for the ITER experimental reactor, an experimental fusion reactor located in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France, built in the early 2010s.

In June 2016, Air Liquide set up its first multi-energy service station offering alternative fuels and, more generally, natural fuels: Compressed Natural Gas, Liquefied Natural Gas and Liquid Nitrogen .

Space missions, Air Liquide creates cryogenic equipment for launchers, orbital systems, firing points and sensors cooled at very low temperatures.

In early 2018, Air Liquide commissioned three new biomethane production units, in the United States, in France, and in the United Kingdom.