The magazine of the Air Liquide Group

No matter their job, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the daily lives of all employees, particularly those at Air Liquide Healthcare. They have learned to adapt and overcome challenges in order to respond to the emergency and to provide healthcare professionals and patients with the best support. Some of them tell us their experience.

Air Liquide and the US-based company Fusion Coolant Systems have partnered to provide a breakthrough innovation for the machining industry based on supercritical CO₂.Totally unique on the market, the “Pure Cut” solution enhances performance, productivity, worker safety and sustainability.

Air Liquide has received a prestigious Red Dot Design Award for its Qlixbi packaged gas offer. What was it about this system for supplying welders with gas cylinders that caught the jury’s attention? What is unique about this new solution? We went behind the scenes to meet the people involved in the design process from the start.

Protecting the health of employees, customers, patients and partners; ensuring continuity of service in essential sectors such as healthcare, energy and the food industry; responding to the health emergency by supporting unprecedented measures throughout the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic… Spotlight on an exceptional mobilization.

Hydrogen is becoming a major solution for the energy transition, attracting growing interest from multiple stakeholders worldwide. As a pioneer in this field, Air Liquide is bringing its expertise to mobility as well as numerous industrial processes.

Often overlooked by society at large, caregivers provide critical assistance to their sick loved ones. Be they men or women, active workers or retirees, these invisible helpers charge nothing for their time or effort. We met with Russell Patten, Secretary General of the European Parkinson's Disease Association (EPDA), which has had a partnership with Air Liquide since 2019.

As global warming is a critical concern, Air Liquide has decided to take action. First of all, the Group has made an ambitious commitment to reduce the carbon intensity of its own activities, driven by innovative projects. Air Liquide is also increasing its initiatives worldwide with customers and partners.

In the context of the fight against COVID-19, Air Liquide continues to support healthcare professionals and hospitals worldwide. In France, the Air Liquide Healthcare teams are particularly proud to have contributed to the installation of the new intensive care unit at the Henri-Mondor Hospital (AP-HP), in Créteil, France, to receive COVID-19 patients as of April 10.

Faced with the urgent need for ventilators to treat the patients most severely affected by COVID-19, Air Liquide, Groupe PSA, Schneider Electric, Valeo took up the challenge of producing 10.000 ventilators Air Liquide Medical Systems (ALMS) between April and mid-May, in response to a request from the French Government.

Air Liquide’s Turbo-Brayton cryogenic solution has seen spectacular commercial and industrial upturn, especially in maritime transport. Other promising applications are also emerging in the field of renewable energy. Read the success story.

2019 has been a year marked by many milestones in Air Liquide's activities! Here is a quick throwback.

The increase in the number of chronic diseases,⁽¹⁾ new patient expectations, hospital overcrowding, and higher costs for treatment and its follow-up are major challenges for our healthcare systems. This new landscape provides an opportunity to collectively reinvent the patient pathway for chronically ill patients by focusing on personalized home care.