Metal Fabrication
Fulfilling the needs of a cutting edge industry
Metal Fabrication
Air Liquide supplies a range of gases, technologies and services for welding and cutting applications at integrated fabrication sites.
Air Liquide offers a range of gases, technologies and services for metal heat treatment and deep cryogenic treatment. Our highly skilled and experienced heat treatment specialists help you safely integrate our heat treatment technologies into your existing manufacturing process with maximum efficiency.
Our solutions for the metal fabrication industry include a range of gases, technologies and services for cutting and welding applications.
Laser cutting
For laser cutting, a laser beam is focused on the base metal, and a cutting jet ejects molten metal. This process is used mainly on thin metals requiring high precision and high productivity. Air Liquide provides optimized and innovative gas installations to meet your needs of high pressure nitrogen or high purity oxygen. We also provide the lasing gas required to meet your flowrate and pressure needs for the CO2 laser.
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Laser welding
The laser beam produced by a CO2 laser or a solid state laser is used for high-penetration, high-speed welding processes where mainstream processes cannot deliver the required distortion and/or productivity. With Nexelia for laser welding, Air Liquide provides an all-in-one solution to reduce your production cost.
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MIG/MAG and TIG welding
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 or high-alloy stainless steels.
Metal Inert Gas (MIG) is used for materials sensitive to oxidation such as aluminum or copper-alloys.
Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding – commonly used for joining stainless steels, aluminum and aluminum alloys – enables a very high quality of weld 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.
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Oxy-fuel cutting
Our solution for flame cutting includes FLAMAL™ brand gases, an oxy-fuel flame and straight oxygen to form a cutting jet. The high flexibility of this process combined with its excellent cutting performance makes FLAMAL™ ideal for both manual and automatic flame cutting operations.
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Plasma cutting
Plasma cutting is used to thermally separate metallic materials that cannot be cut by a flame. It allows for a smaller cutting angle compared to 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 maximize productivity. Under certain circumstances, plasma cutting can achieve a comparable quality level to laser cutting at a considerably lower production cost.
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Heat treatment
Air Liquide’s extensive technical knowledge of heat treatment processes, coupled with our safe, reliable and customized gas solutions, will help you optimize your operations and manage costs. We also produce various hydrogen gas mixtures in a wide range of balances and packaging options and these gas mixtures are used specifically to modify structure characteristics of steel, such as hardness and flexibility.
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Laser cutting
For laser cutting, a laser beam is focused on the base metal, and a cutting jet ejects molten metal. This process is used mainly on thin metals requiring high precision and high productivity. Air Liquide provides optimized and innovative gas installations to meet your needs of high pressure nitrogen or high purity oxygen. We also provide the lasing gas required to meet your flowrate and pressure needs for the CO2 laser.
Gases
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Laser welding
The laser beam produced by a CO2 laser or a solid state laser is used for high-penetration, high-speed welding processes where mainstream processes cannot deliver the required distortion and/or productivity. With Nexelia for laser welding, Air Liquide provides an all-in-one solution to reduce your production cost.
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All-in-one solutions
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Resources
MIG/MAG and TIG welding
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 or high-alloy stainless steels.
Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding is used for materials sensitive to oxidation such as aluminum or copper-alloys.
Tungsten Inert Gas welding (TIG welding) – commonly used for joining stainless steels, aluminum and aluminum alloys – enables a very high quality of weld 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.
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Oxy-fuel cutting
Our solution for flame cutting includes FLAMAL™ brand gases, an oxy-fuel flame and straight oxygen to form a cutting jet. The high flexibility of this process combined with its excellent cutting performance makes FLAMAL™ ideal for both manual and automatic flame cutting operations.
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Plasma cutting
Plasma cutting is used to thermally separate metallic materials that cannot be cut by a flame. It allows for a smaller cutting angle compared to 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 maximize productivity. Under certain circumstances, plasma cutting can achieve a comparable quality level to laser cutting at a considerably lower production cost.
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3D printing (additive manufacturing with metals)
The additive manufacturing process (3D printing) with metals makes it possible to build parts in real time.
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Why choose us?
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Diverse offer
We offer gas cylinders in various volumes and concentrations. We also supply gases in bulk volumes and storage solutions.
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Focus on quality
Our gases are available in a range of purities to meet your needs. We can analyze for specific impurities based on your request.
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Expertise
A global network of experts is available to support you in developing solutions to meet your unique challenges. Our teams have extensive experience and expertise in assembly, surface treatment and cutting techniques.
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Sustainability
Our ARCAL™, LASAL™ and FLAMAL™ gas solutions for metal fabrication are designed with the environment in mind, with reduced carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.