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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.

Air Liquide broke ground on its new Research and Technology Center, the Shanghai Research & Technology Center (SRTC), located in the industrial park of Xinzhuang, in the Minhang district of Shanghai, China.

Air Liquide will invest around €40m in a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) that will supply Klabin, Brazil’s biggest paper manufacturer, with oxygen.

GKN Powder Metallurgy and McPhy Energy today announce a technology partnership agreement to accelerate the deployment of cost competitive solid state hydrogen storage.

Air Liquide has just won a competitive bid launched by the Council Général de la Manche to supply and install a hydrogen filling station in Saint-Lô, France.

Air Liquide announced today that it has been selected by Natgasoline LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OCI N.V., as the supplier of oxygen for its new world-scale methanol plant in Beaumont, Texas.

An additional 11.7 million barrels per day (mmbd) of Crude Distillation Capacity (CDU) will come online globally between 2014 and 2020, with an annual average of 1.6 mmbd, says a new report from GlobalData.