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Air Liquide opens new R&D and Technology Center in the US

25 Jan 2007 - Air Liquide has opened a new R&D and Technology Center in the US. The new centre is located on a 22-hectare site in Newark, Delaware, approximately 50 kilometres south of Philadelphia. As part of the worldwide Group's R&D network, its teams will build on the multicultural skills and top university and scientific talent present in the US.
 
Bringing people together in a single site shall leverage the synergies among the company's different R&D teams in the US, uniting scientists from the Chicago Research Center, MEDAL in Newport, Delaware - a subsidiary that develops membranes that separate and purify gas, Air Liquide Advanced Technologies US (ALATUS), and SEPPIC, a subsidiary involved in specialty chemicals. The Center is designed to give fresh momentum to the Group's R&D and technology operations for the 72 countries where Air Liquide is present. Based in the US, it will benefit from this dynamic market and will soon employ 150 people from over 14 different nationalities. Air Liquide has invested $35 million in this Center.