Air Liquide Research and Technology Center, Delaware

The Delaware Research and Technology Center is an R&D location for the French industrial gas company Air Liquide, one of the leading industrial gas distributors in the USA, handling gases like oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and helium. It bought Airgas in 2016. The company has an extensive network of pipelines totaling 2000 miles, connecting industries along the Mississippi River corridor, and beyond. It has 140 production facilities, and operates dedicated plants at large industrial gas consumer sites, like refineries, chemical plants and metal plants. Its US operations employ nearly 20,000 people.