Air Liquide increasing prices for industrial gases

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP, Houston, has increased the prices for bulk industrial gases in the U.S. effective immediately or as existing customer contract terms and conditions allow. Prices will increase between 10 and 15 percent for oxygen and nitrogen; between 15 and 25 percent for carbon dioxide and dry ice; and 15 percent and 25 percent, respectively, for argon and helium. In addition, charges for delivery, materials handling and applicable miscellaneous services will increase accordingly.

Air Liquide continues to employ advanced technologies and efficiencies in its operations in order to provide the solutions and productivity that are important to industrial customers. Price increases are being implemented in response to rapidly increasing energy and labor costs and, in the case of argon and helium, rising costs related to sourcing.

Air Liquide Industrial U.S. LP is the subsidiary of American Air Liquide Holdings Inc., responsible for providing bulk gases and related services to a diverse base of customers in the U.S. including those in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, metals, and automotive industries. American Air Liquide Holdings Inc. is the subsidiary of Air Liquide Group responsible for its North American operations.

With more than 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, and hydrogen to desulfurize fuels.