Air Liquide Opens Manufacturing Unit in UAE

French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has inaugurated its new engineering and construction manufacturing unit in Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Designed to produce equipment for very large air separation units and modules, Air Liquide said the manufacturing center "will address the expanding markets in the Middle East and beyond by delivering high-quality proprietary cryogenics plant equipment, like cryogenic columns and cold boxes."

The new center features a 33,000-square-meter workshop equipped with modern technological solutions such as lean manufacturing, advanced automation of the manufacturing tasks, continuous and linear fabrication and state-of-the-art IT tools to track production.