This animation presents Air Liquide’s unique business model to create value. A robust and flexible model that is capable of evolving with the changes taking place in the world to serve customers and patients as effectively as possible.
The strong integration of Air Liquide’s various activities enables it to create synergies not just at an industrial level, but also in technological expertise, innovation, human resources, and financial management. In concrete terms, these synergies translate into industrial organization models optimized for liquefaction and packaging of gases. The Group thus focuses on key industrial basins that can support future expansion.
Activities:
Engineering & Technologies
- Worldwide activity combining Air Liquide's innovation, engineering and construction as well as its technology development capabilities to support the Group’s various activities and key areas of energy transition, electronics, deeptech and scientific research.
- Stakes: technological innovation, talents, agility, collaboration with ecosystems (new hydrogen applications)
Large Industries
- From resources like air, electricity, renewable electricity, natural gas, biomethane and water, large-scale supply of industrial gases via pipeline networks or on-site production units in industrial basins identified for their growth and mutualization potential.
- This activity is characterized by long-term contracts (15 - 20 years) and by the mutualization of production assets to enhance supply reliability and optimize operating costs.
- Typology of customers: major players in the metallurgy, chemicals, refining and energy sectors, whose large gas volumes justify the construction of a dedicated plant or the development of a pipeline network.
- This activity supplies the Group's other branches (Industrial Merchant, Healthcare - medical gases and Electronics) by providing them with bulk gases, in a given perimeter.
- Key stakes: reliability and energy efficiency, investment capacity.
Industrial Merchant
- Supply of gas solutions, equipment and services for smaller gas volumes than for Large Industries customers.
- Gas delivered in bulk, in liquid form, or in cylinders, in gaseous form, for smaller quantities. Smaller production units can also be installed locally for customers with larger gas requirements, or who are located in isolated areas.
- Wide range of customers (2 millions) and applications.
- Development reinforced by acquisitions of local distributors to increase the density of the catchment.
- Stakes: reliability of supply, precise understanding of customers’ needs, continuous innovation.
Healthcare
- In home healthcare, personalized care and support for patients with chronic diseases (respiratory failure, sleep apnea, diabetes, Alzheimer's...).
- Stakes: extension of oxygen therapy to other chronic diseases to increase the patient density and use of digital technologies to ensure better quality of service, and contribute to the sustainability of healthcare systems.
- Supply of medical gases, associated equipment and services to hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
- Stakes: availability of "medicament" gases, contribution to the efficiency of the healthcare system.
- Production and distribution of specialty ingredients for the cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, vaccines and nutrition markets.
Electronics
- Supply of advanced gases and molecules as well as associated equipment and services for the production of semiconductors, flat screens and photovoltaic panels.
- Carrier gases (by pipeline or on-site production);
- Specialty materials and advanced materials (patented molecules with very high added value).
- Stakes: purity, innovation, competitiveness, reactivity (short cycles)
