Air Liquide has opted to further expand its services in South Africa, with the news that it has acquired the B&S Medical Gas System company, a South African leader in medical gases pipelines, designs and installations.
The joint company will operate under the name Air Liquide Hospital Installations and Services, trading as B&S Medical Gas System and will be headquartered alongside Air Liquide Healthcare in Alrode.
The resulting product portfolio will include design and installation of pipeline networks, supply of medical air compressors and vacuum plants, quality audit at hospitals, regulation compliance gap analysis, small backup emergency mobile units and future maintenance of installations.
“Keeping momentum after the doubling of our medical gas sales to hospitals over the past year, Air Liquide has decided to further support our new customer base by enlarging our offer and providing new high quality solutions for medical piping installations,” said Alain Larousse, CEO Air Liquide (Pty).
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