Air Liquide acquires Chinese firm subsidiary

French multinational Air Liquide has completed the acquisition of ENN Clean Energy UK, a subsidiary of China’s largest privately-owned energy company ENN Group. The value of the transaction has not been disclosed.

ENN Clean Energy's natural gas stations in Wellingborough, Portbury, and Huntingdon in the United Kingdom, will now become part of Air Liquide's European network of more than 60 bio-NGV (natural gas for vehicles) stations, according to a company release.

Moreover, Air Liquide's project to trial a fleet of 86 gas-powered trucks and use blueeze, the company's liquid nitrogen solution, on five trucks fitted with a cryogenic refrigerating units has been chosen to be part of a £20 million government programme to deploy zero emission vehicles in the United Kingdom.