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Air Liquide in Poland offers its customers of automotive industry the innovative solutions for their increasing quality requirements and the optimization of the production costs. These solutions are adapted to each of the stages of vehicles manufacturing and operating:

Pressurized argon or helium is increasingly used to fill airbags, a safer alternative to pyrotechnic inflators.

Current regulations promote the use of fuels that contain less sulfur. Using hydrogen, sulfur can be extracted to produce „green” fuels. This avoids sulfur dioxide emissions, which are responsible for acid rain, and increase the life of catalytic exhaust systems.

Highly precise gas mixtures, containing minute quantities of each component, are required to calibrate vehicle air pollution monitors.
These controls help reduce exhaust emissions.

Nitrogen is used increasingly to fill tires. The polymers in tires are less permeable to nitrogen than to the oxygen in the air, so tires remain inflated longer. The inert gas also extends tire life and reduces fuel consumption.
Nitrogen's inert properties are also put to use in the rubber curing and tire molding phases.
Cryogrinding can be used to recycle tires: liquid nitrogen cools the tires before they are ground.

Hydrogen and nitrogen are essential in manufacturing float glass.
Oxygen is used increasingly in manufacturing glass, improving combustion and reducing emissions. The process is more environmentally friendly and energy efficient

Highly technical mechanical parts (gears, pinions, injectors, linkages, etc.) require controlled atmospheres for their manufacture or heat treatment: nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, helium.
Oxygen is used in the manufacture of antifreeze.
Radiator and air conditioner watertightness is often tested using helium to avoid leakage of harmful coolants into the atmosphere.

Without gases, there would be no plastic materials! These reactants are essential in producing the main polymers.
Carbon monoxide and hydrogen help produce the polyurethane foam that fills seats and dashboards.
Nitrogen-assisted injection is used to mold many of the parts.
A neutral gas, nitrogen is blown into the mold, providing the final shape without altering or modifying the plastic material properties.

Steel is the main component in car bodies.
Oxygen is used in steel manufacturing, in particular to reduce emissions (nitrous oxides), hasten combustion, and make the process more eco-friendly.
Argon is used to produce stainless steels.
The mechanical characteristics of steel plates are improved by manufacturing them in a protective atmosphere made up of nitrogen and hydrogen.
During the vehicle assembly process, the latest technologies (laser, plasma) are used to weld the many seams, again in protective atmospheres created using argon, helium and other gases.

Rare gases (argon, xenon, krypton) protect the filament in headlight bulbs.
Krypton and xenon headlights emit a non-blinding, high-intensity light, which gives drivers a better view of the road and makes vehicles more visible to others. This technology improves road safety.

With the widespread availability of driving and safety support tools (ABS, on-board computers, GPS, etc.), electronic chips are used increasingly in automobile manufacture.
Chip manufacturing requires extremely pure specialty gases (silane, etc.) and carrier gases (nitrogen, hydrogen, argon).
Nitrogen-based protective atmospheres are used when assembling components on motherboards.

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