Air Liquide announced on Thursday that it had signed a 'record' 52 new contracts in on-site gas production in the industrial merchant segment in 2022.

These contracts concern the supply of nitrogen, oxygen or hydrogen to customers in growth markets such as glass, metals, water and waste treatment, and electronics.

The Group - which had signed 48 new contracts in 2021 - says it has benefited from a steady increase in its activity in this field in recent years.

The number of long-term contracts linked to on-site installations signed each year by Air Liquide has thus doubled between 2015 and 2022.

Present in 62 countries, with a workforce of 33,000, the industrial merchant business supplies industrial gases to more than two million customers, from independent craftsmen to major industrial companies.

In 2021, its sales amounted to almost 9.5 billion euros.

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