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Air Liquide, a leader in centric industrial and healthcare gases, seeks to develop ‘customer intimacy’ through digital technologies following its acquisition of US company Airgas. VP Olivier Blachier is tasked to articulate for the board a vision of customer centricity and a digital strategy.

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