France

Air Liquide is further expanding its relationship with BOE Technology Group with a major contract award to supply BOE’s new G8.5 Flat Panel Display Device and System Project located in Chongqing, China.

Summer 2014 saw Cryostar welcome 12 representatives of 10 major companies for an open day to preview its new HPP3 65/120 cryogenic pump.

McPhy Energy has been chosen by the CAC® Steering Committee (Conseil Scientifique) for inclusion in the CAC® Small, CAC® Mid & Small and CAC® All-Tradable indexes starting September 22th, on the opening of trading.

On September 3, 2014, Air Liquide inaugurated its first hydrogen filling station in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in the presence of the Secretary of State of the Dutch Ministry of Transport and the Environment.

The fifth-largest economy by nominal figures, and the second-largest in Europe, France is at the forefront of one of the most mature regional industrial gas markets.

Located in nearly 30 countries worldwide and with nearly 8,000 employees across six continents, Fives is known for its technological expertise and competence in executing large-scale international projects.

The number of ‘green’ consumers in the world is growing rapidly and they are becoming very conscious of the carbon footprint of the products they buy.

Air Liquide Japan has partnered the OECD Tohoku School event – which was held in Paris at end of August, highlighting the affects of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Various laboratories around the world have successfully demonstrated the initiation of fusion reaction, which is when two hydrogen isotopes fuse together to form helium and produce heat during this nuclear reaction.

Air Liquide has stated its “objectives” have been “maintained” in reflection of the group’s business performance for the first half of 2014.