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Women in industry

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Having worked all her life fi rst for Messer and, since the merger in 2004, for Air Liquide, Dietlind Gillner is one of the most experienced ladies within the industrial gases business.

When she joined Messer in 1969 the circumstances were somewhat different to today. Back then the number of women was even smaller, which made many women struggle in order to survive among their fellow male colleagues.

Dietlind still remembers when she started to head the Messer production business and its 300 staff. She said: “When I, as a woman engineer, was put in charge of the operations they (men) didnt like it at all. They tried to get me out.

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