ECO ORIGINᵀᴹ: a range of low-carbon industrial and medical gases
Published on April 04, 2025
2 minutes
With ECO ORIGIN™, Air Liquide is supporting customers that want to reduce their environmental impact by offering them low-carbon medical and industrial gases produced using 100% renewable electricity and energy sources. Customers from a wide array of industries, including food, automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and electronics, as well as hospitals and clinics, have chosen this unique range.
Gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and carbon dioxide are essential to many industrial manufacturing processes and hospital treatments. But the production of these gases counts towards the carbon footprints of our customers. For this reason, Air Liquide has developed ECO ORIGIN™, a range of certified low-carbon gases produced from renewable sources such as biomass, wind power, solar power, and hydropower. Traceability of the gases’ carbon footprint, from production to delivery, is certified by an independent body in compliance with ISO standards. ECO ORIGIN™ enables customers to significantly reduce their Scope 1 and 3(1) emissions with no impact on the quality of gas supplied. In this way, Air Liquide is responding to growing demand among customers looking to reduce the environmental impact of their activities.
Customers such as Michelin and Gruppo San Pellegrino have already chosen to include ECO ORIGIN™ in their strategies aimed at producing locally and sustainably. And less than a year after the solution was launched for healthcare customers, contracts have been signed with 20 hospitals and clinics in six European countries, as well as Brazil.
“ECO ORIGIN™ is winning over more and more of our customers, as it reduces Scope 3 emissions attributable to the product value chain, as well as Scope 1 emissions corresponding to the CO₂ emitted during production.
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Christel Champinot
Climate Program Manager, Industrial Merchant activity, Air Liquide
