Air Liquide Opens Advanced Fabrication Center
The center will help users optimize their process gas compositions in welding, cutting, AM and other operations.
Posted: November 30, 2018
Air Liquide, S.A. (Paris, France) and their U.S. subsidiary Airgas, Inc. (Radnor, PA) have inaugurated the Advanced Fabrication Center (AFC) at their Air Liquide Delaware Innovation Campus. As a manufacturing expertise center, the AFC focuses on helping industrial users adopt new manufacturing technologies and more efficient and cost-effective production processes. Created with OEMs to support the world’s largest metals fabrication market in the U.S., it will deliver a continuous flow of development projects, including affiliate operation support, key innovations and exploratory research and development. Air Liquide manufacturing expertise in welding gases and advanced fabrication processes will be on display to manufacturing customers at the center.
The AFC involves users and industrial collaborators early in the innovation process to address technological challenges, from finding optimal process gas compositions to process efficiency and operation’s safety, health and sustainability. It puts the needs of customers from manufacturing and metal fabrication industries at the heart of its operations to help customers improve performance and production processes.
The center features dedicated “R&D studios” equipped for specialized research and staffed with experts who will be dedicated to key segments, such as welding and cutting, digitization and visualization, additive manufacturing, cryo-assisted manufacturing, as well as robotics and cobotics automation. Leveraging the team’s expertise at the Delaware Innovation Campus, the center opens its doors to OEMs to test state-of-the-art equipment and serves as a collaboration space for end-users, OEMs, academic and research institutes, in order to innovatively develop and optimize new fabrication technologies.
“We are devoted to innovation through application-focused research development and technological solutions. This site provides new, state-of-the-art facilities to support customer centric projects, improve and develop more efficient manufacturing technologies and encourage innovation to help sustainably meet the challenges of tomorrow,” commented Michael Graff, the executive vice president and executive committee member of Air Liquide S.A., and chairman and chief executive officer of American Air Liquide Holdings, Inc.
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