Integrated Annual Report 2024

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ENERGY TRANSITION

ECO ORIGINTM: a range of low-carbon industrial and medical gases

With ECO ORIGIN™, Air Liquide is supporting customers that want to reduce their environmental impact by offering them low-carbon medical and industrial gases produced using 100% renewable electricity and energy sources.

Customers from a wide array of industries, including food, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and electronics, as well as hospitals and clinics, have chosen this unique range.

This image illustrates the production and use of low-carbon gas as part of a circular economy and the reduction of emissions by end customers.

Circular economy of low-carbon gas

  1. Renewable energy and carbon sources
    • 100% certified renewable electricity (wind, solar)
    • Certified biogenic CO₂ (from biomass or agriculture).
  2. Low-carbon gas production
    • Produced in Air Liquide units certified ECO ORIGIN™.
    • Independent certification in compliance with ISO standards

      Types of gas produced:

      • O₂ (oxygen)
      • N₂ (nitrogen)
      • Ar (argon)
      • CO₂ (carbon dioxide)
  3. End-user sectors
    • Healthcare: hospitals, clinics
    • Industry: Food, mobility, cosmetics, electronics
  4. Environmental impact
    • Reduction of customers' CO₂ emissions
    • Contribution to the production of end products with a low carbon footprint:
      • Cosmetics
      • Medicines
      • Food products
      • Electronic equipment

Gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and carbon dioxide are essential to many industrial manufacturing processes and hospital treatments. But the production of these gases counts towards the carbon footprints of our customers. For this reason, Air Liquide has developed ECO ORIGIN™, a range of certified low-carbon gases produced from renewable sources such as biomass, wind power, solar power, and hydropower. Traceability of the gases’ carbon footprint, from production to delivery, is certified by an independent body in compliance with ISO standards. ECO ORIGIN™ enables customers to significantly reduce their Scope 1 and 3 ¹ emissions with no impact on the quality of gas supplied. In this way, Air Liquide is responding to growing demand among customers looking to reduce the environmental impact of their activities.

Customers such as Michelin and Gruppo Sanpellegrino have already chosen to include ECO ORIGIN™ in their strategies aimed at producing locally and sustainably. And less than a year after the solution was launched for healthcare customers, contracts have been signed with 20 hospitals and clinics in six European countries, as well as Brazil.

ECO ORIGINTM is winning over more and more of our customers, as it reduces Scope 3¹ emissions attributable to the product value chain, as well as Scope 1 emissions corresponding to the CO2 emitted during production.

⟶Christel Champinot,
Climate Program Manager, Industrial Merchant activity, Air Liquide