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Inauguration of Air Liquide's new Research and Technology Center in the USA

08 Jun 2007 - Air Liquide Chairman and CEO Benoît Potier inaugurated the Group's new US Research and Technology Center in Newark, Delaware. The Center will be called the "Delaware Research and Technology Center" (DRTC).
 
Located on a 22-hectare site south of Philadelphia, this center shall bring together in a single location the researchers of the previous Chicago Research Center (opened in 1983), the experts of MEDAL (a subsidiary which produces membranes for gas separation and purification), the engineers of the Advanced Technologies Division in the USA (ALATUS) and the teams of the SEPPIC subsidiary (specialty chemicals). There are thus over 80 researchers of 14 different nationalities and with very diverse training backgrounds working on this new campus.
 
Air Liquide has invested 35 million US dollars in the construction of this center, to supplement the Group's innovation teams in Europe and Asia. The DRTC will devote itself to 12 areas of research: from gas production to applications in electronics, healthcare and food processing, and in particular clean energy.