Continental & Northern Europe Regional Business Unit // Climate and environmental protection are key elements of our Corporate Responsibility activities in this region. |
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Continental & Northern Europe ranks alongside the US as one of the world’s most powerful established industrial regions. This region is also the undisputed hub of the industrial gases business worldwide, also providing valuable momentum for future political, social and economic developments, particularly through the European Union and its core members. So it is fitting that awareness surrounding the defining role of environmental and climate protection be so securely anchored at an early stage in this region. And for The Linde Group, whose historical roots lie in Europe, this topic is naturally a key focus for our Corporate Responsibility activities in this area. We provide details of our main social and community projects in Continental & Northern Europe in the “Corporate Citizenship” chapter.
The Continental & Northern Europe Regional Business Unit includes the following countries: Germany/Austria/Switzerland/France/Benelux/Spain/Portugal/Italy/Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Finland/
Iceland/Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/Algeria/Tunisia.
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1 As of 30 June 2007. Male/female ratio calculated based on total number of Linde Group employees in the region. |
We focus, for example, on the development of hydrogen technologies that are fit for future mobile applications. We recently launched operations at Germany’s second hydrogen liquefaction plant in Leuna, set to play a key role in enabling the widespread use of hydrogen as vehicle fuel.
Header-image: Skeidarársander sand flats, South Islands, Iceland
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