Air Liquide: For 100 Years the Leader of the Greek Market

Air Liquide was established in Greece on 5th June 1909, under the name of “The Oxygene AEBA” by constructing an oxygen and acetylene production unit in the Southern
Athenian suburb of Faliro. Today, 100 years later, Air Liquide Hellas operates 3 primary production units, 3 filling centers, offices in Athens and Thessaloniki and 3 heathcare patients service stores in Athens, Thessaloniki and Ioannina. Air Liquide Hellas was born and raised during the 20th century, closely keeping up with all the technological developments, while initiating some of them with patented innovations that apply to the industrial sector.
In view of the 100 celebration of Air Liquide Hellas, Stefan Neubauer, Managing Director of the Group in Greece and Air Liquide’s Director of the South-Eastern Europe, announced: «We are oriented towards creating for each client a total offer. Air Liquide has the target of responding to its clients’ needs in the most complete as well as efficient way, always focused to its core values of Safety, Quality and Environmental Protection» Epaminondas Katopodis, Industrial Director of the Greek Group, added: «Air Liquide Hellas has been contributing to the industrial development of Greece. As you all know, a country’s development index takes into consideration the percentage of industrial gases consumption. Air Liquide Hellas has been supplying greek industries with gases for the last 100 years».

GROUP AIR LIQUIDE HELLAS
Air Liquide is active in Greece since 1909. It operates 5 industrial sites. One in Aspropyrgos, (gas & mixtures filling center), one in Tanagra (Liquiide oxygen, Nitrogen & Argon production, one in Florina (carbon dioxide & dry ice production) and two in Thessaloniki (Liquide Oxygen, & Nitrogen, Gas & mixtures filling center, Hydrogen filling center).
Air Liquide Hellas is ISO 9001: 2000 certified for all its sites and activities. Aspropyrgos’ and Florina’s sites are ISO 14001 certified for environmental management. .
Air Liquide Hellas is as well ISO 22000 (HACCP) for the production of liquefied gases for the food and beverage industries.
The Healthcare sector of Air Liquide Hellas provides medical gases and the relevant equipment as well as services to hospitals, and is active in the homecare sector through its subsidiary VitalAire, both being ISO 13485 and ΔΥ/1348/2004 certified.

With nearly 40,000 employees in 72 countries, Air Liquide is a world leader in industrial and medical gases and related services. The Group offers innovative solutions based on constantly enhanced technologies and produces air gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, rare gases…) and many other gases including hydrogen. The Group contributes to the manufacturing of many everyday products: bubbles in sparkling beverages, protective atmosphere for packed foods, oxygen for hospitals and homecare patients, ultra-pure gases for the semiconductor industry, hydrogen to desulfurize fuels...
Air Liquide is committed to sustainable development and helps to protect life. Founded in 1902, Air Liquide has successfully developed a long-term relationship with its shareholders built on trust and transparency and guided by the principles of corporate governance. Since the publication of its first consolidated financial statements in 1971, Air Liquide has posted strong and steady earnings growth. Sales in 2006 totaled 10,949 million euros, with sales outside France accounting for almost 80%. Air Liquide is listed on the Paris stock exchange and is a component of the CAC 40 and Eurostoxx 50 indices (ISIN code FR 0000120073).