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• Linde secures multiple long-term supply contracts with new and long-time customers
• Investment extends commitment to on-site plants and building electronic specialty gases infrastructure

One of the key factors for expanding the commercial use of Fuel-cell vehicle in Korea is the set up of a network of hydrogen refuelling stations. Yesterday, there was a meeting between Hyundai and the Linde Group at Hyundai Motor Group’s Eco Technology Centre in Korea to discuss potential alliance especially for the Fuel-cell buses which Hyundai is targeting to showcase in the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics.

Linde Korea, a member of The Linde Group, announced that it completed the construction of N₂O (Nitrous Oxide) gas production plant in the Asan Industrial Complex for Foreign Companies. Construction on this plant began in the first half of 2012 and now it has operated normally since it was commissioned successfully in January 2013.

The Linde Group, a world-leading gases and engineering company headquartered in Germany, today announced it had acquired 51 percent of the shares in privately-held PSG Corp, a leading distributor of merchant and packaged industrial gases in South Korea.

Linde Korea has completed various science experiments for elementary school children for four years since 2009.

The first private company to be selected as ‘Science Technology Ambassador’, encouraging children’s interest in science technology through various programs.

Scheduled to visit elementary schools in the Gyeonggi area, to carry out interesting experiments with liquid nitrogen oxide. 

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.

Governor of Gyeonggi Province Moon-Soo Kim visits The Linde Group Head Office in Germany.

• Governor Kim tours Linde’s hydrogen lab and had discussions on future partnership with Linde.

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 Korea, a member of The Linde Group, will showcase its wide range of solutions for the semiconductor industry at SEMICON Korea 2012, a key regional semiconductor conference and exhibition taking place from 7 to 9 February 2012 at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Centre in Seoul.

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.

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.

Linde Korea Completes Science Technology Ambassador Program.
First private company to be selected as ‘Science Technology Ambassador’.

Linde Korea officially opens Giheung 2nd Plant investing USD 180 million in a total including Giheung 1st Plant.

• The new plant will produce high purity industrial gases required by Korean manufacturing companies.
• The Linde Group has invested around USD 235 million (about KRW 270 billion / EUR 170 million) in South Korea over the past six years to install industrial gases facilities, contributing to the country’s industrial growth and economic success

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.

• Linde to build the largest nitrous oxide (N2O) plant in South Korea.

• Plant targeted to come on-stream by December 2012, supporting Korean electronics and healthcare industry with stable N2O supply.

• Import substitution effect worth more than USD150 million to Korean industry in the next decade.
  

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.

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.

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced its participation at Intercool in Dusseldorf, Germany, where they will be showcasingtheirnew CRYOLINE® CW hygienic IQF tunnel...

The Electronics and Specialty Gases business of Linde North America recently commissioned a new carbon dioxide (CO₂

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, today announced its participation at Aluminium 2010 in Essen, Germany.In addition to their Low-temperature Oxyfuel combustion technology which...