Our core business is to supply oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and many other gases and services to most industries (for example: steel, oil refining, chemicals, glass, electronics, healthcare, food processing, metallurgy, paper and aerospace).
Our global presence (130 subsidiaries in more than 70 countries) allows the Group to combine the resources and expertise of a global enterprise with a powerful local presence based on independent customer-focused teams.
Our financial results illustrate the Group’s long-term commitment to creating value for sharehers. During the last thirty years the Group has achieved solid and sustained earnings growth of +11.3% per year.
Our commitment to technology and innovation has kept Air Liquide at the forefront of the high-tech business of industrial gases for more than 100 years. Our objective is, and has always been, to fulfill customers’ needs while enhancing the Group’s expertise and competitiveness. The result is relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that improve customers’ industrial performance and protect the environment.
Our corporate strategy is focused on achieving sustainable growth through continued economic, social and human advancement. Since the beginning in 1902, Air Liquide has successfully practiced an ethic of responsibility and transparency; this is particularly evident in the Group’s relationship with its sharehers.
Our gases are everywhere and are indispensable for improving industrial processes. They go hand in hand with growth and progress in advanced economies where Air Liquide has a strong presence.
New products like hydrogen and therapeutic gases, advances in electronics, innovative environment-related applications and high value-added services are growth drivers that meet our customers’ new needs.
Air Liquide seizes development opportunities in new markets and emerging economies that show high growth rates: Eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, India, China, etc.
Large Industries
Users of large volumes of industrial gases and energy solutions (oil and gas, chemicals, metals). Customers are generally supplied through pipeline networks linked to plants designed, constructed and operated by the Group. Long-term contracts (15 years).
Electronics
Semiconductor manufacturers. Very high-tech sector. Carrier gases are often supplied through units installed at customers' sites (long-term contracts, 10 years on average). Specialty gases and associated services (short or medium-term contracts), as well as equipment and installation sales for gas and liquid chemical products.
Industrial Customers
Companies using industrial gases in small or medium quantities. Delivery of liquefied gas in cryogenic trucks or gas cylinders. Several thousand production units on customers' sites. Short or medium-term contracts (3 to 5 years).
Healthcare
This activity combines sales of medical gases, equipment and services for hospitals (gas distribution and management, hygiene) with homecare services (mainly relating to respiratory disorders.
Other activities
These include welding (Air Liquide Welding), engineering and construction, space, chemicals and diving.
