Press Releases The latest press releases of The Linde Group at a glance.

The performance of the technology company The Linde Group has remained steady in the nine months ended 30 September 2012, with Group revenue and Group operating profit both increasing once again.

After a construction period of almost two years, the new Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP) in Leuna was today officially opened by the Chancellor of Germany.

On 24 September 2012, Linde AG will be added to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI World) in acknowledgement of continued progress in its sustainability performance.

Linde AG (A stable/A3 stable) has today successfully placed EUR 1 bn of senior notes with an 8-year maturity. The bond, with a coupon of 1.75 % issued under the EUR 10 bn EMTN programme, was priced at 35 basis points over MidSwaps.

Technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a long-term contract to supply Vietnamese steel company POSCO SS-Vina (PSSV) with industrial gases.

In the first six months of 2012, positive business trends have continued at the technology company, The Linde Group. Group revenue and Group operating profit both increased during the period. "We have seen a solid performance in the first half of 2012," said Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle, Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced the launch of, VERISEQ® Nucleation, an innovative cryogenic technology to control the formation of ice crystals during the lyophilisation - or freeze drying - process.

Technology company The Linde Group will be constructing two major air separation units at the Kalinganagar industrial complex in Odisha, India, for one of the world's largest steel manufacturers, Tata Steel Limited.

Linde Philippines Inc., a member of The Linde Group, today announced that it had been awarded a contract by JG Summit Petrochemicals Corporation to install and operate nitrogen and hydrogen on-site plants to support JG Summit's petrochemical plant and the installation of the first naphtha cracker plant in the country.

Technology company The Linde Group has received an engineering contract for the licensing and front end engineering design (FEED) of one of the world’s largest ethylene plants in Tobolsk, Western Siberia.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, the leading specialist gases supplier for the global electronics industry, announces today the signing of a significant long-term supply contract with SK Hynix Semiconductor, a world-leading manufacturer of DRAM and NAND flash memories, to deliver on-site fluorine (F2) to multiple mass production sites in Korea.

Linde Finance BV, guaranteed by Linde AG (A stable/A3 stable) has today successfully placed EUR 500 mn of senior notes in a 7 year maturity. The bond with a coupon of 1.75 %, issued under the EUR 10 bn EMTN program, was priced at 35 basis points over MidSwaps.

Linde LienHwa (LLH), The Linde Group's joint venture with LienHwa MiTAC Group of Taiwan, a leader in electronics gas supply and solutions, today announced a significant long-term deal with Samsung Electronics to supply gases for its latest 8.5 generation TFT-LCD manufacturing plant in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), China.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced the launch of FROSTCRUISE®, a highly innovative in-transit refrigeration system which will provide a more environmentally friendly, efficient and reliable cryogenic alternative to diesel-powered mechanical refrigeration.

The technology company The Linde Group continued to see profitable growth in the first quarter of 2012, with increases in Group revenue and Group operating profit.

Linde Healthcare, a global business unit of The Linde Group, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Air Products' Continental-European homecare business following approval by the European Commission. The transaction comprises homecare operations in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal and Spain which serve over 250,000 patients and include around 850 employees. With this acquisition Linde Healthcare becomes one of the leading European homecare providers, representing combined pro-forma sales of around EUR 390 million in Europe.

Linde North America will be highlighting several of its proven technologies to help steelmakers increase productivity and lower costs at the AISTech 2012 Conference to be held at The Georgia Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, May 7-10.

Linde North America will showcase its portfolio of carbon capture technology and experience at the 11^th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture Utilization & Sequestration to be held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 30 – May 3, 2012.

Today, the European Commission has granted its unconditional approval for Linde AG's acquisition of the Continental-European homecare business of the industrial gases company Air Products. Following this approval, Linde and Air Products expect the transaction to be closed by end of April 2012.

Linde's newest hydrogen fueling station has officially begun operating at AC Transit's Emeryville, California, municipal bus operating division, fueling 12 fuel cell buses and up to 20 passenger cars a day.

The technology company The Linde Group once again saw profitable growth in the 2011 financial year, achieving its best ever figures for Group sales and Group operating profit.

Metal fabricators attending FABTECH Canada looking for ways to increase productivity without sacrificing product quality or safety in the workplace are invited to visit with Linde Canada welding experts who will be showcasing the company’s extensive line of welding gases and equipment and safety products at the show.

The highly competitive aluminum industry is constantly looking for economic, environmentally sound ways of melting scrap to produce high quality aluminum. Linde, a leading supplier of industrial gases to the aluminum industry, has just what they are looking for: Low-temperature Oxygen-enhanced combustion processes that increase productivity and reduce emissions.

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH, a subsidiary of the Linde Group, is set to build a turn-key geothermal power plant for GEOenergie Kirchweidach GmbH at their Kirchweidach site in Germany.

Leading New Zealand gases and engineering company BOC Ltd and New Zealand Steel today announced they had agreed a long term industrial gas supply contract that will be critical to New Zealand Steel’s ongoing iron and steel making operations at Glenbrook.

The technology company The Linde Group and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) have agreed to advance the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) - an environmentally-friendly fuel - in the port of Hamburg.

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbH has acquired the Carbo-V® Technology of the insolvent Choren Industries GmbH, Freiberg from the insolvency administrator Dr. Bruno M. Kübler.

Linde North America developes a revolutionary automated processing system for fingerprint identification. The new Linde technology is a flexible tool designed with both the forensic investigator and research scientist in mind.

Industrial gases provider BOC is joining Alstom and Drax as a co-developer on the 426 MW oxy-fired carbon capture and storage (CCS) project currently under development at the Drax site in North Yorkshire.

In a major development for the compressed gases industry, Linde Gases today introduced GENIE® – a technologically advanced, ground breaking new range of gas cylinders which represents a significant departure from traditional steel cylinders.

The technology group The Linde Group is set to build and operate a new hydrogen plant in the Jilin Chemical Industrial Park (JCIP) in Northeast China. The company will be investing around EUR 42 million in the first phase of this new project.

The technology group The Linde Group has been selected to manage the entire gas supply system for steel company Hebei Puyang Iron and Steel Ltd. in Wu'an (Hebei province in the North China region).

The technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a contract to supply hydrogen to the combustion chamber test facilities run by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) in Cologne.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced an agreement with Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) for the installation of a major central gas supply system at the University’s recently renovated multi-story research laboratory of chemical engineering and separation technology.

The Government has awarded industrial gases company BOC £1.5 million from its Regional Growth Fund to support the construction of a new Dissolved Acetylene production facility in North East Lincolnshire.

Linde LienHwa (LLH), The Linde Group's joint venture with LienHwa MiTAC Group of Taiwan, today announced a further strengthening of its commitment to the TFT-LCD industry in China with the opening of a major ultra-high purity gas plant at BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd's (BOE) latest 8.5 generation TFT-LCD manufacturing facility in the Beijing Development Authority.

In the third quarter of 2011, the technology company The Linde Group built on its good business performance in the first half of the financial year, achieving significant increases in Group sales and Group operating profit* in the nine months to 30 September 2011.

Linde Korea, a member of The Linde Group, today held a ceremonial event to celebrate the completion of its second air separation plant in Giheung, which has a total investment value of USD 180 million (about KRW 206 billion / EUR 130 million).

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced a new contract with Topsil, a leading Danish provider of silicon wafers for semiconductors.

The Linde Engineering and Gases Divisions have developed a new line of hydrogen generators that combines proven steam methane reforming (SMR) technology and innovative design.

Linde Korea, a member of The Linde Group, announced that it will construct a new 5,200 tons per annum nitrous oxide gas production plant in the Asan Industrial Complex for Foreign Companies.

Supervisory Board of Linde AG has appointed Thomas Blades (55) as a new member of the Executive Board. Blades succeeds J. Kent Masters (51), who steps down today from the Linde AG Executive Board. Blades will assume his position by 1 April 2012 at the latest.

Linde Gas North America LLC and Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced that they are on track for a second quarter 2012 startup of the high-purity anhydrous hydrogen chloride (HCl) processing and packaging facility the companies are building together at The Dow Chemical Company’s Freeport, Texas site, as part of their Hydrochlor manufacturing production-only joint venture.

An integration process that began five years ago to create a world leading gases and engineering company has reached a new milestone: BOC Pakistan Limited officially rebrands as Linde Pakistan Limited.

Afrox has commissioned a state-of-the-art gas installation, worth in the region of R1,6-million, at Ampath Trust’s new main medical pathology laboratory in Centurion. The installation is one of Afrox’s biggest HiQ®60 ultra-high purity gases and REDLINE® equipment installations in South Africa.

Afrox is poised for the September 2011 launch of a pioneering calibration gas mixture packaging technology based on a proprietary cylinder treatment process developed by its parent company, The Linde Group.

“Although the skills shortage has reached global crisis proportions, particularly on the African continent, it is not a problem without solutions,” says Afrox Business Manager, Application Development, Johan Pieterse.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected technology group The Linde Group to receive USD 15 million for the advancement of carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture technologies.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced the launch of its new SOLVOX® OxyStream solution, a unique low-pressure oxygenation system to help significantly increase fish production volume, optimise fish meat quality and considerably improve operations from an environmental standpoint.

The technology company The Linde Group has been commissioned to build and operate two large air separation plants to supply gases on site to the Chinese company Yantai Wanhua in Shandong (East China).

The technology company The Linde Group continued to achieve profitable growth in the first half of 2011.

Bechtel Corporation and Linde AG announced today they will work together to expand and build ethylene cracker plants in North America.

The technology group The Linde Group today announced the first beneficiaries of the REALfund initiative.

The Linde Group's Engineering Division and project partner SBM Offshore have signed a partnership agreement with PTT FLNG Limited and PTTEP Australasia for the development of a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in the Timor Sea off Northern Australia.

Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH opened their first demonstration hydrogen station in Germany today. It is located on the premises of Shell’s Sachsendamm service station in Berlin.

PT. Linde Indonesia, a member of The Linde Group, announced that it had entered into a long term industrial gases supply scheme agreement with PT. KRAKATAU POSCO (PT.KP).

Over the coming three years, the two companies plan to construct an additional 20 hydrogen filling stations in Germany, thereby ensuring a supply of hydrogen produced purely from renewable resources for the steadily increasing number of fuel-cell vehicles on the roads.

The CRYOLINE® family of cryogenic food freezing equipment is now available to the South African market and meets the need of a variety of applications. Our modern freezer designs use the latest control programs to increase efficiency while meeting stringent hygiene standards.