Air Liquide
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Air Liquide is a large French company that produces and sells industrial gases and related services to businesses around the world. It matters because industrial gases are essential inputs for many manufacturing processes, healthcare applications, and other industries.
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Key facts
- Company type
- Société Anonyme
- Traded as
- Euronext Paris : AI , CAC 40 component
- Industry
- Chemicals , Health care , Engineering
- Predecessor
- AG für Kohlensäure-Industrie, Air Liquide Austria
- Founded
- 1902 ; 124 years ago ( 1902 )
- Founder
- Paul Delorme
- Headquarters
- Quai d'Orsay , 7th arrondissement , Paris , France
- Key people
- Benoît Potier , ( Chairman ) , François Jackow ( CEO )
- Products
- Industrial gases , fine chemicals
- Revenue
- € 27.05 billion (2024)
- Operating income
- €5.39 billion (2024)
- Net income
- €3.30 billion (2024)
Article
An Air Liquide industrial plant Air Liquide S.A. (/ˌɛər lɪˈkiːd/ AIR lih-KEED, French: [ɛːʁ likid]; literally "liquid air") is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, Air Liquide is the second largest global supplier of industrial gases by revenues (after Linde plc) and has operations in over 70 countries.
The company's headquarters are in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It also has major offices in Japan, Houston, Newark, Delaware, New Delhi, Frankfurt, Shanghai and Dubai. The company's research and development (R&D) targets the creation of industrial gases, and gases that are used in products such as healthcare items, electronic chips, foods, and chemicals. The major R&D groups within Air Liquide focus on analysis, bioresources (foods and chemicals), combustion, membranes, modeling, and the production of hydrogen (H2) gas. Air Liquide owned the patent for Aqua-Lung until it expired.