News Article
New research centre in the USA will develop clean energy technology and electronics
Air Liquide has announced the inauguration of the Group's new US Research and Technology Centre located in Delaware.
Air Liquide has announced the inauguration of the Group's new US Research and Technology Centre located in Delaware. The Centre will be called the “Delaware Research and Technology Centre” (DRTC).
This centre now brings together in a single location the researchers of the previous Chicago Research Centre, the experts of MEDAL (a subsidiary which produces membranes for gas separation and purification), the engineers of the Advanced Technologies Division in the USA (ALATUS) and the teams of the SEPPIC subsidiary (specialty chemicals). There are thus over 80 researchers of 14 different nationalities and with very diverse training backgrounds working on this new campus.
Air Liquide has invested 35 million US dollars in the construction of this centre, to supplement the Group's teams in Europe and Asia. The DRTC will devote itself to 12 areas of research: from gas production to applications in electronics, healthcare and food processing, and in particular clean energy.
The DRTC aims to double Air Liquide's research effort in the United States and should eventually have 150 staff members. This new centre will be able to develop stronger partnerships with the Group's major customers, and establish academic cooperation agreements with the best American laboratories and universities. Finally, it will be supported by a multicultural, international pool of scientific and academic talent.
Benoît Potier, Air Liquide Chairman and CEO, states: With the establishment of the Delaware Research and Technology Centre in North America, we have now in total, in our main geographic zones, nearly 3,000 experts dedicated to three major themes: sustainable development, healthcare and technology.
This centre will enable us to profit from stronger synergies between our experts, our customers and the academic world. It will also encourage mobility of the Group's people, as well as ideas."
