Automotive

With a portfolio of more than 200 patents related to welding and cutting solutions and 250 welding specialists worldwide, Air Liquide offers the expertise and resources you need to help optimize your processes and to help ensure safety in your operations. We have developed innovative solutions for heat treatment, welding, cutting, and coating – focusing on gas quality and performance, product and packaging safety, transaction ease, effective technical support, asset management and safe delivery of gases to your point of use. In addition to industrial and specialty gases and related equipment, we offer the most accurate, repeatable and homogenous calibration gases for analyzer calibration.

Heat treatment

Air Liquide offers gas application heat-treating solutions and processes to help customers meet the strict standards of the automotive industry when it comes to the treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Welding

With strict environmental regulations in the automotive industry on the rise, the industry is seeing an increase in demand for lightweight materials. Our advanced welding solutions help design lighter vehicles that release fewer emissions. We offer a suite of arc and laser welding technologies and industrial grade gases to help improve weld quality and productivity. Our ARCAL™ brand is an AWS/ISO compliant premium solution for arc welding technologies, aimed at enhanced efficiencies.

Inert gas blanketing (SPAL)

Our SPAL technology helps producers of steel products to melt cleaner metals to produce castings with fewer defects, enhanced mechanical properties and lower rejects.

The technology uses liquid cryogenics (argon or nitrogen), to reduce interactions between molten metal and atmospheric gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide during air melting operations.

Heat treatment

Air Liquide draws on its extensive knowledge and technical expertise in heat treatment to provide customers with competitive gas solutions that are safe, reliable and fine-tuned to their needs. Our staff is on hand to support and optimize customers’ processes and control their costs.

Laser cutting

For laser cutting, a laser beam is focused on the base metal, and a cutting jet ejects the molten metal. This process is used mainly on thin metals requiring high precision and high productivity. Air Liquide can provide you with optimized and innovative gas installations and gas equipment to meet all your flowrate and pressure needs for lasing gas and process gases. Air Liquide’s LASAL™ premium gases improves performance and reliability of specialized laser cutting jobs.

Laser welding

The laser beam produced by a CO2 laseror a solid state laser is used for high-penetration, high-speed welding processes where mainstream processes cannot deliver the required distortion and/or productivity. With Nexelia for laser welding, Air Liquide provides a all-in-one solution to reduce your production cost thanks to innovative nozzles.

MIG and MAG welding

Metal Active Gas (MAG) welding is highly flexible and adaptive, and is used when you wish to obtain high productivity and high quality results. This process is used for manual and semi-automatic welding or automated/robotized installations on low-alloy carbon steels or high-alloy stainless steels.

Metal Inert Gas (MIG) is used for materials sensitive to oxidation such as aluminum or copper-alloys.

Flame cutting

Our solution for flame cutting includes FLAMAL™ brand gases, an oxy-fuel flame and straight oxygen to form a cutting jet. The high flexibility of this process combined with its excellent cutting performance makes FLAMAL™ ideal for both manual and automatic flame cutting operations for use in metal fabrication, shipyards, boilers, scrapping, and installations.

Why choose us

• 01 Diverse offer

  We offer gas cylinders in various volumes and concentrations and all associated gas handling equipment. We also supply bulk volumes and storage solutions, as well as on-site production technologies.

• 02 Focus on compliance

  Purity, accuracy, reliability and speed of delivery of our specialty gases improve analysis reliability for added compliance assurance.

• 03 Quality

  Air Liquide manufactures gases in a range of purities to meet your needs. We can analyze for specific impurities based on your request.

• 04 Innovation

  Air Liquide’s industry experts are backed by a global R&D network.

• 05 Sustainability

  Our ARCAL, LASAL and FLAMAL brand products for metal fabrication were designed with the environment in mind, enabling reduced carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.