L'Air Liquide SA - Company Profile
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Business Description
L'Air Liquide SA (Air Liquide) produces and distributes oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, and other inert gases. It serves a wide portfolio of industries, including steel, energy, chemicals, car manufacturing, aeronautics, food processing, and the pharmaceutical industry.
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R&D Overview
Air Liquide focuses on creating new profitable and sustainable offerings in both traditional and new businesses. The company emphasizes innovation in climate solutions, digital, data and AI for industry and healthcare transformation, advanced materials in electronics, and deep tech. The Innovation & Development Division (IDD) drives the innovation strategy, ensuring alignment with business strategies and anticipating industrialization and rollout phases. The company also leverages partnerships with external innovation ecosystems and its internal ecosystem of experts to enhance its R&D efforts. In the field of mobility the company collborates with TotalEnergies for the creation of TEAL Mobility, which aims to develop a network of hydrogen refueling stations for heavyduty trucks. This initiative aims to ease access to hydrogen, enabling its use in freight transport and strengthening its hydrogen offerings. The company also operates a deep tech start-up accelerator, Accelair. During FY2024, Accelair was joined by Aerleum to develop an innovative technology integrating atmospheric CO2 capture and its conversion into methanol in a single process, for transport decarbonization. Moreover, the company also developed Trailblazer, a high-capacity PEM (proton exchange membrane) electrolyzer to produce renewable hydrogen. This project is the continuation of a joint venture between the company and Siemens Energy, which focuses on the integration of electrolyzers manufactured in the Gigafactory in Berlin. In addition to this, it also intends to enhance its hydrogen solutions’ portfolio, using ammonia conversion into hydrogen with new cracking technology. This initiative would be incorporated in an industrial scale pilot unit in the Port of Antwerp. Air Liquide also works towards the optimization of its own energy consumption through the integration of innovative digital solutions into its offerings, enabling a better customer, patient and employee experience, while fostering operational excellence. The company also plans to roll out a program for the digitization of the liquefied products supply chain, which could provide Industrial Merchant customers around the world with a service offering greater reliability and safety, while improving the company's efficiency and reducing its carbon footprint. The company also developed digital solutions such as kairin, a combination of patient application and a platform facilitating exchanges between Air Liquide and healthcare professionals which improves the quality of life of patients with a chronic disease. In FY2024, the company filed 366 new patents and holds a global portfolio of around 15,000 patents and patent applications. The company has more than 500 international patent families on hydrogen and around 550 on carbon capture and storage. The company has 350 partnerships with academics, industrials, and start-ups. In FY2024, the company spent EUR309 million on R&D, which as a percentage of revenue, stood at 1.1%.
Business Segments
Overview
Conducts feasibility studies; designs, constructs and installs gas production units for the customers and for its own use. It facilitates the development of energy conversion, gas purification, industrial gas and CO2 capture technologies. It has engineering and manufacturing centers based in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia. In FY2024, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR14.9 million, which grew 71.3% YoY.
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Overview
Comprises four business lines, Large Industries, Industrial Merchant, Healthcare, and Electronics. Large Industries: Operates major production units and supplies industrial gases to customers in the chemicals, metals, refining, and energy industries. Serves customers directly through pipelines from a dedicated plant or different plants linked by a network. The portfolio of products includes nitrogen, argon, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide. It also operates cogeneration facilities to supply steam and electricity. The business line operates under long-term contracts, which include take-or-pay clauses. Considers reliable and cost-efficient supply to customers as a major factor for growth. Focuses on developing a network strategy in the industrial basins. Industrial Merchant: Supplies industrial gases in bulk or liquid form, for medium and large quantities or in cylinders, in gaseous form, for small quantities. Provides welding equipment, safety equipment, and related services. It also offers on-site production units for customers with requirements of large quantities. Serves various markets and customers such as SMEs, craftsmen, and large multinational industrial groups. Supplies gases including nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide used in glass and metal manufacturing processes and water treatment processes for materials and energy markets Provides argon and argon mixtures, krypton, oxygen, hydrogen, acetylene, and nitrogen used in metal parts welding, airbags, lighthouses, thermal insulation, and metal heating and cutting operations for automotive and manufacturing markets. Offers technical gases and equipment used in the manufacturing of electronic components and calibration of analysis instruments for technology and research markets. Provides carbon dioxide for beverages, nitrogen for freezing food, and gas mixtures for modified atmosphere packaging in food and pharmaceuticals markets Offers gases used in plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, industrial maintenance, and welding operations in professional and retail markets. Healthcare: Supplies medical gases, hygiene products, medical devices, and services to hospitals and clinics. It also produces and distributes healthcare specialty ingredients for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and vaccine markets. Offers medical gases such as oxygen, and nitrous oxide xenon; serves patients suffering from chronic diseases at home; and provides skin disinfectants, antiseptics, and medical instrument disinfection products. Provides healthcare specialty ingredients, including vaccine adjuvants, film-coating systems and stabilizers, thickeners, emulsifiers, and active ingredients for the cosmetic market. Electronics: Provides gas and services used in the production of semiconductors, flat panels, and photovoltaic panels. Offers carrier gases such as ultra-pure nitrogen used in chip manufacturing; specialty and advanced electronic materials; equipment and installation of distribution units and networks at customer facilities; and analytical services. In FY2024, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR3,412.3 million, which grew 8.5% YoY.
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Overview
Offers technological solutions such as molecules, equipment and services to energy transition, maritime logistics and deep technologies markets. Provides hydrogen energy and bio–natural gas solutions to the clean energy market; and commercializes technologies in aerospace, space and scientific exploration. Supplies gases to the maritime sector and provides logistics for cryogenic transportation by sea of value added molecules, such as helium. In FY2024, the segment incurred a capital expenditure of EUR132.2 million, which declined 27.2% YoY.
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Geographical Segments
- Americas excl. United States
- Asia Pacific
- Europe, Middle East and Africa excl. France
- France
- United States
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