Air Liquide Advanced Technologies

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Air LiquideAdvanced Technologies
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Group strength
The world leader in gases for industry, health
and the environment
43,600 employees in 80 countries
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Diversity and complementary nature of expertise
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Gases and Services 4 major World Business Lines
Large Industries
Industrial Merchant
Electronics
Healthcare
Gas supply and related services for
semiconductors, flat screens and photovoltaic
panels manufacturing
Supply of medical gases, hygiene products,
services and equipment for hospitals and
homecare
Operation of large units dedicated to customers
who require pipeline supply to meet their gas
consumption needs

• Comprehensive gas supply for small to large
  industries that need gases in different
  quantities

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Gas and Services revenue - 2010 -
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Gas and Services revenue11,886 million euros -
2010 -
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Europe Middle East/Africa
Americas
Asia/Pacific
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Engineering and Construction - 2010 -
Mission To supply customers with large gas
volumes through on-site production units,
or pipeline networks. World
leader in this market, the Group produces
industrial gases for a wide range of
manufacturing processes and applications, of
which they are often raw materials. Air Liquide
Advanced Technologies is part of the
Engineering and Construction
activity
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Other Activities - 2010 -
MissionTo develop skills in complementary fields
based on the gas business

• Brings together
• Welding and cutting
• Specialty chemicals
• Professional and competitive diving Aqualung

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Other Activities revenue- 2010 -
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Gas and Cryogenics Engineering

• Air Liquide
• Advanced Technologies

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Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
A forward vision for Air Liquide
Creation of the Sassenage site (Isère, France)
beginnings of industrial cryogenics at Air Liquide
Over time, our teams made an exceptional path out
of a few pioneers ideas. Air Liquide Advanced
Technologies fulfills one of the Groups basic
values Technological Innovation
Our ambition
To develop for you, and
with you, innovative, optimized and safe
technical solutions, fully tailored to your needs
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Our areas of skills

• Gas and cryogenics engineering
• gas separation
• very low temperature refrigeration and gas
  liquefaction
• gas quality analysis and control
• gas treatment
• gas storage and distribution

Nearly 50 years of technical, industrial and
commercial experience, benchmark expertise and
guarantees
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Our businesses
TO DEVELOPtechnological offers based on our
know-how and Group expertise
Turbine based on static
gas-bearing technology
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Our businesses
TO CREATEtailored solutions to meet
specific, often complex needs
Turbo engine for Melfi cryo-freezer on board the
International Space Station
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Our businesses
TO DESIGN, INDUSTRIALIZEAND MANUFACTUREstandard
products for our customers recurring needs
Our goalAn optimized, reliable and cost
efficient product
Some of the 52,000 pieces of protective breathing
equipment sold worldwide
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Our businesses

• TO MANAGE PROJECTS, PROGRAMSAir Liquide Advanced
  Technologies provides comprehensive support for
• conducting surveys and helping to draw up
  specifications
• selecting the most appropriate technologies
• proposing turnkey solutions
• risk control
• start-up, operation and maintenance
• training

Teams from Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
operate and maintain the cryogenic facilities at
CERN
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Our markets
Civil and military aviation

• Breathing equipment and gas generation systems
  (oxygen and nitrogen) designed to be installed on
  board aircrafts or for ground applications

• Innovative global solutions to improve the
  availability and safety of aircrafts and
  helicopters

• Technical support maintenance, spare parts

Air Liquide, a preferred partner of the aviation
industry
Protective breathing equipment
On-board inert gas generation systems OBIGGS
On-board oxygen generation systems OBOGS
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Our markets
The Navy

• Innovate to consolidate and broaden our offer to
  naval programs

• Support manufacturers all through their projects

• Develop systems for installation on-board
  submarines and surface vessels

• Gas generation and storage systems
• Systems for the regeneration of confined
  atmospheres

Air liquide, an historical supplier of
decarbonation plants
for French nuclear submarines
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Our markets
Space

• Cryogenic tanks of liquid hydrogen and oxygen
  for propulsion stages and helium pressurization
  systems onto Ariane 5

• Cryogenic launch pad infrastructures,
  on-the-ground test equipment for launchers and
  satellites (space simulation chambers)

• Cryogenic on-board satellites or onto the
  International Space Station, for large scale
  international space projects Melfi, Planck,
  Herschel

• Pulse-tubes cryocoolers with a wide range of
  temperatures and limited vibrations scientific
  applications and Earth observation satellites,
  International Space Station

• Work for the development of the future European
  launcher Ariane cryogenic equipment

HX development project of the future Ariane
launcher
Melfi ISS cryo-freezer
Planck refrigerator
Air Liquide, an historical partner in the space
adventure for nearly 50 years
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CRYOSPACE
An Economic Interest Grouping for space conquest
Cryospace was born out of a joint venture
between two prestigious companies

• Long experience in the space field for both
  parent companies

• Pooled technical expertise as well as program
  management and reliability and quality control
  skills (for the Ariane 5 cryogenic tanks)

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Our markets
Scientific Research

• Partner of laboratories, research centres, major
  scientific OEMs and RD departments in the
  industrial sector

• Experience in the fields of mechanical cold
  production, gas liquefaction, storage, and
  cryogenic fluids distribution at very low
  temperatures

• Applications in the industrial sector, like the
  new helium liquefaction centre in Qatar

Air Liquide, nearly 50 years of technical,
industrial and commercial experience in the
cryogenic area
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Our markets
Electronics Optoelectronics

• Ultra-high purity of vector gases (gaseous H2,
  He, liquid N2, Ar) for semi-conductors, aerospace
  or particle accelerators industries

• Meet the specific needs of industrial
  manufacturers, engineering companies and OEMs
  (Original Equipment Manufacturers)

• Provide systems and solutions dedicated to the
  production and analysis of ultra-pure gases

Air Liquide, a partner of the worlds leading
producers of semiconductors, LED and
photovoltaic equipment
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Our markets
Chemicals/Pharmaceuticals Environment

• Understand and analyse all the needs of
  chemicals and pharmaceuticals businesses

• Support them through their projects, from design
  to implementation, including risk control

• Serve sustainable development with Air Liquide
  Advanced Technologies skills by designing
  environmentally friendly industrial solutions,
  like the one developed for biogas

Air Liquide,

the expertise in
gaseous waste disposal and thermal control
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Our markets
Decentralized energies

• Full mastery of the entire hydrogen chain
  production, distribution, and storage including
  fuel cell applications

• Green hydrogen production, light composit
  storage equipment, high pressure refueling
  stations (from 200 up to 700 Bar)
• A dedicated organisation to coordinate Group
  actions Air Liquide Hydrogen
  Energy
• A subsidiary in charge of fuel cell development
  Axane

• Leader of worldwide demonstration programs
  Hychain, Horizon Hydrogène Energie - H2E, British
  Columbia Transit, Canadian airports

• A strategy to build from now on the conditions
  required for a successful roll-out of hydrogen
  vehicles by 2015

Air Liquide, a committed partner to hydrogen
energy development
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Our markets
Decentralized energies
BIOGASCombining several technology offers, Air
Liquide develops a global solution integrating
all the steps to overcome from the collect of the
biogas to the compression or liquefaction of
biogas
Our ambition  To be recognized as the world
leader in biogas
Air Liquide takes up the decentralized energy
challenge
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Biogas
Over 100 years of experience in seperating gas
Over 20 years of experience in manufacturing
membranes
Nearly 10 years of experience in upgrading biogas
14 operating biogas upgrading facilities so far
using the membrane technology
40 new biogas upgrading facilities planned
Air Liquide, world leader of biogas refinement
with a capacity of 90,000m3/h
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The markets
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies - 2010 -
Revenue breakdown
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Sites and revenue breakdown
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Human Resources
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
Source DRF AL

• Expert representatives in different fields
  speaking the same language as our customers
• A base site in Europe and 3 international sites
  in the United States, China and Japan
• Network of international sales hubs

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Skills
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
Technological Innovation
Management of complex projects Managing complex,
large-scale flagship projects with substantial
budgets and multicultural teams
Project support Approaching each solution
globally, using a procedure that combines advice,
solution design, related services and risk control
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Skills
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
Multi-disciplinary teams The combination of gas
and cryogenics experts with specialists in
cutting-edge technology fields such as
aeronautics, space, scientific research, and
environment
Functional studies Studies of gas and cryo
processes, thermodynamics, fluid flow simulation
Thermal analyses Studies of isolation and thermal
performance at low temperatures
Structural analysis Stress analysis simulation
dynamic testing
Electrical engineering Functional analyses
automatic controls specifications
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Specialized resources
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
Boiler-making Welding Assembly Integration
Machining Infrastructures Boiler-making
workshop (2,200 m2), Traveling cranes for
handling heavy loads (10 tonnes) Clean rooms
(category 100)
Equipment Digitally controlled 5 axes machining
centers Manual TIG, semi-automatic TIG welding
equipment Machines for cutting and folding sheet
metal Non-destructive inspection,
particularly X-ray examination, eddy current,
ultrasound, etc.
Methodology Lean manufacturing
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Our test center
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies

• A test center chosen by many industrial and
  scientists customers (CNES, ESA, SNECMA, Astrium,
  CEA, CERN...) to ensure and validate the
  quality and the reliability of their
  equipment, facilities and materials

• A team demonstrating a high level of expertise
  made available to customers in various fields
  such as physical characterization of materials at
  low temperatures, vacuum, high pressure,
  cryogenics, destructive testing ...

• A quick answer to requests that may arise when
  developing new projects space programs, navy,
  hydrogen energy

• Deeply-rooted safety culture

6 hectares serving innovation since 1962
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Specialized resources
Air Liquide Advanced Technologies
Design office Autocad Solidworks

• Calculation software
• Fluent
• Hysys

Access to a permanently renewed portfolio of
patented inventions
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Air Liquide Advanced Technologies

benefits from the Groups strengths and resources
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