Air Liquide Austria
The Air Liquide Austria GmbH (because French, spoken: eer likid) is part of the Air Liquide Group . After acquiring Air Gas in 2015, Air Liquide was the world's top-selling group in gases, related technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Air Liquide Austria is based in Schwechatm, southeast of Vienna.
Air Liquide Austria maintains two air separation plants in Schwechat and Donawitz , several filling plants and a CO 2 recovery system. With around 250 employees (as of 2016), Air Liquide Austria supplies around 40,000 industrial customers and 10,000 patients with technical or medical gases. The company also has sales offices throughout Austria, sales partners for industrial gases and over 90 emergency medical providers in Germany.
Business areas
Air Liquide Austria supplies its customers with gases via pipelines, on-site systems, tank trucks or in the form of gas cylinders. It also supplies both industrial customers and medical customers in hospitals and nursing homes. The company sells products for the food & beverage, chemistry, electronics, environment, metalworking and processing, laboratory & analysis, paper, glass, construction, welding & cutting, hospitals and home care industries.
history
Air Liquide Austria GmbH was founded in 1916 by the Swedish AGA group from the union of the companies "Österreichische Dissousgas- und Autogenwerke Franz Krückl & Co" (founded in 1898) and "Oxygen and nitrogen industry Hansmann & Co" (founded in 1905) as an "autogenous gas accumulator Krückl & Hansmann GmbH ”was founded. The Schwechat location was established in 1916/17 with an oxygen plant, a dissous gas plant for acetylene and a “machine and welding apparatus construction institute”. This location had a railway connection and a central boiler house.
In 1961, two air separation plants in Schwechat were converted to use pure nitrogen, investments in nitrogen compressors and the start of nitrogen deliveries via pipeline to adjacent industrial basins.
In 1971 the old air separation plant in Schwechat was shut down and a new one was put into operation. In 1972, the then new air gas filling system (O2, N2, Ar / Mix, compressed air), one of the first “fully palletized” filling systems in the AGA Group at that time, and the conversion of the acetylene plant (Schwechat) were put into operation.
In Graz, the predecessor company Alpenländische Oxygenwerke (ASW) was taken over and the company premises in Ulrich-Lichtenstein-Gasse operated until around 2010, after which it was relocated to the southeast from Graz to Messendorf. To this day there is a delivery warehouse next to the railway in Peggau .
The company traded in the 1990s and 2000s with the red / white lettering A G A.
In 1994 the redesigned location in Anif was opened and the special gas bottling facility in Schwechat was put into operation. Another two years later, the AGA introduced the first barcode-supported bottle information system SERVITRAX at a gas company in Austria. In 1996/1997 the opening of the new bottle logistics center, the commissioning of the special gas filling facility and the relocation of the headquarters from Vienna to Schwechat took place. To this day, the headquarters of Air Liquide is located in Schwechat. In 1997 the air separation plant was opened in Donawitz and in 1999 the gas activities of Air Products in Austria were taken over. In 2001 the activities of AGA Austria were taken over by the Air Liquide Group. In 2006 the new air separation plants in Schwechat and Donawitz were put into operation, and the Hard and Lustenau plants were merged a year later.
management
- Christian Tomsen (CEO)
literature
- Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria , 2006, ISBN 3-20577460-4 via AGA
Individual evidence
- ↑ ard.de: Linde against Air Liquide | Stock News | Börse Aktuell | boerse.ARD.de ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 6, 2017
- ↑ a b Air Liquide - Brief overview: Air Liquide - Brief overview - AL in Austria , accessed on February 6, 2017
- ↑ fluechtlingswerk.at: Air Liquide Austria supports the Don Bosco refugee organization with a generous donation | Don Bosco Refugee Agency Austria ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 6, 2017
- ↑ firmenabc.at: Air Liquide Austria GmbH, Schwechat, Lower Austria - FirmenABC.at , accessed on February 6, 2017
- ↑ Company history on the homepage of Air Liquide Austria , accessed on December 23, 2017.
