Metal Fabrication

Cutting of metallic raw materials is a process in which a metal fabricator turns sheets, tubes, coils and more into the desired size or shape. A focused laser beam is directed onto a sheet, allowing for burr-free cuts.

Gases

• Nitrogen
• Oxygen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

LASAL^TM gases and equipment, specifically designed by Air Liquide for laser cutting and welding, improve productivity and quality, lower operating costs and maintenance and extend laser lifetime. 

Air Liquide offers a full range of specialty gases and related equipment to meet your laser cutting and welding needs. Global purity, along with control of specific impurities, are the most important factors when selecting gases for your lasing application. Air Liquide pioneered the laser industry standard for effective, consistent control of impurities now widely adopted in the marketplace.

Our pure gases and multi-component mixtures for laser welding are prepared under strict quality control procedures that minimise specific impurities such as moisture, hydrocarbons and particulates.

Gases

Our LASAL^TM brand gases and multi-component mixtures are prepared under strict quality control procedures that minimise specific impurities such as moisture, hydrocarbons and particulates. We also supply other pure gases and gas mixtures for laser welding, depending on your needs.

• LASAL^TM gases
• Argon
• Helium
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

LASAL^TM gases and equipment, specifically designed by Air Liquide for laser cutting and welding, improve productivity and quality, lower operating costs and maintenance and extend laser lifetime.

Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding is a semi-automated welding process which is used for joining stainless steels, aluminum and aluminum alloys. The process melts and fuses metals using intense heat generated by an electric arc between the metals to be joined and the consumable filler material.

Metal Active Gas (MAG) welding is a semi-automated welding process which is widely used in shipbuilding, railroad construction and the production of heavy plants and machinery. The process melts and fuses metals using intense heat generated by an electric arc between the metals to be joined and the consumable filler material.

The Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding process – commonly used for joining stainless steels, aluminum and aluminum alloys – enables a very high quality of welding to be achieved in particularly demanding projects, such as pressure vessels, pipelines, food industry containers and aircraft. The process uses an electric arc between the metals to be joined and an infusible tungsten-based electrode, located in the welding torch.

Gases

• ARCAL™ gases
• Argon
• Carbon dioxide
• Oxygen
• Helium
• Nitrogen
• Hydrogen

Air Liquide supplies a range of fuel gases for a range of manual and automatic cutting applications.

Gases

• Acetylene
• Oxygen

Equipment for industrial gases

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Plasma cutting is used to thermally separate metallic materials that cannot be cut by a flame. Plasma cutting allows for a smaller cutting angle compared with flame cutting, high cutting speed, clean and smooth cutting edges and high-quality welded joints. It is widely used on all types of metal to achieve quality cuts and maximise productivity. In certain circumstances, plasma cutting can achieve a quality level comparable with that of laser cutting at a considerably lower production cost.

Gases

• Oxygen
• Nitrogen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

The additive manufacturing process, or 3D printing, with metals makes it possible to build large-scale works in real time. Air Liquide supplies premium welding and shielding gases for additive manufacturing projects and will lend its expertise in the field.

Gases

• Argon
• ARCAL™ gases

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

Our ARCAL™ brand offers a full range of high-quality, ready-to-use shielding gas solutions for arc welding, root shielding, plasma cutting, TIG welding and MIG and MAG welding applications.

Air Liquide’s extensive technical knowledge of heat treatment processes, coupled with our safe, reliable and customised gas solutions, will help you optimise your operations and manage costs. ALNAT™, Air Liquide’s dedicated offer for heat treatment applications, includes the delivery of gases and gas handling equipment, as well as a range of services relating to the generation, use and control of atmospheres in industrial heat-processing furnaces.

Air Liquide also produces various hydrogen gas mixtures in a wide range of balances and packaging options, and all related gas handling equipment. These gas mixtures are used specifically to modify structure characteristics of steel, such as hardness and flexibility.

Gases

• Nitrogen
• Hydrogen
• Argon

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

Our ALNAT™ supply solutions will help you ensure a controlled atmosphere in terms of safety, efficiency and reliability in heat-treating applications, including annealing, brazing, carburising, cryogenic treatments and more. 

Cutting of metallic raw materials is a process in which a metal fabricator turns sheets, tubes, coils and more into a desired size or shape. A focused laser beam is directed onto a sheet, allowing for burr-free cuts.

Gases

• Nitrogen
• Oxygen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

LASAL™ gases and equipment, specifically designed by Air Liquide for laser cutting and welding, improve productivity and quality, lower operating costs and maintenance and extend laser lifetime.

Services

As part of our gas and equipment offers for laser cutting applications, we offer laser training to help you ensure safe operation.

Air Liquide offers a full range of specialty gases and related equipment to meet your laser cutting and welding needs. Global purity, along with the control of specific impurities, are the most important factors when selecting gases for your lasing application. Air Liquide pioneered the laser industry standard for effective, consistent control of impurities now widely adopted in the marketplace.

Gases

Our LASAL™ brand gases and multi-component mixtures are prepared under strict quality control procedures that minimise specific impurities such as moisture, hydrocarbons and particulates. We also supply other pure gases and gas mixtures for laser welding, depending on your needs.

• LASAL™ gases
• Argon
• Helium
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Brands

LASAL™ gases, specifically designed by Air Liquide for laser cutting and welding, improve productivity and quality, lower operating costs and maintenance and extend laser lifetime.

Air Liquide supplies fuel gases for cutting applications to enhance cutting processes.

Gases

• Acetylene
• Oxygen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Plasma cutting is used to thermally separate metallic materials that cannot be cut by a flame. Plasma cutting allows for a smaller cutting angle compared with flame cutting, high cutting speed, clean and smooth cutting edges, and high-quality welded joints. It is widely used on all types of metal to achieve quality cuts and maximise productivity. In certain circumstances, plasma cutting can achieve a quality level comparable with that of laser cutting at a considerably lower production cost.

Gases

• Oxygen
• Nitrogen

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to deliver gas safely to your application.

Metal Active Gas (MAG) welding is highly flexible and adaptive, and is used when you wish to obtain high productivity and high quality results. This process is used for manual and semi-automatic welding or automated/robotized installations on low-alloy carbon steels, high-alloy stainless steels or non-ferrous alloys such as aluminum or copper. Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding mixes are mainly used for sensitive stainless steels and aluminum or copper-alloy welding.

Gases

• ARCAL™ Gases
• Carbon Dioxide
• Oxygen
• EXELTOP^TM
• Microbulk

Equipment

Air Liquide supplies a wide range of gas handling equipment designed to safely deliver gas to your application.

Hardgoods and Package Gases can be supplied to customers at virtually any construction and or fabrication site through the Connected Store. The Connected Store is a mobile store that tracks and controls product acquisitions, the storage environment, improves productivity and minimize wastage. The customer benefits include having an outsourced hardgoods (HG) and or package gas (PG) store coupled to an exclusive online stock management system system. The benefits realised include the following:

• Real time stock management
• Traceability on purchased products
• Project / Job consumable cost consolidation and forecast
• Monitor and manage individual employee consumption
• Minimal downtime due to consistent availability of relevant products
• Compliant storage practices
• Secure and controlled access via biometrics

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Brands

Our ARCAL™ brand offers a full range of high-quality, ready-to-use gas solutions for welding, shielding and cutting applications to help you boost the efficiency and overall productivity of your operations.

• ARCAL™

Services

As part of our gas supply offers, Air Liquide will conduct a cost analysis productivity (CAP) diagnosis to help you implement the most efficient solution for your operations.

We also provide customer gas utilisation audits, support and advice on welding documents and processes through the Unlocking Hidden Costs of Welding Programme.