Air Liquide Phikwe

Air Liquide Phikwe is a gas company site in Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana, bearing the name of the industrial gases group Air Liquide. Air Liquide Botswana, part of Air Liquide Southern Africa, was registered in 1977. Its website gives its address as Plot 5638 Nakedi Road, Broadhurst Industrial Site, Gaborone. It describes the company as supplying industrial and specialty gases to the steel, automotive and fabrication, food and beverage, mining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and glass industries, and medical gases to state and private hospitals and to patients at home. That is the national company's range, not a list for the Selebi-Phikwe site. The Air Liquide group was founded in France in 1902 by Georges Claude and Paul Delorme, following Claude's work on liquefying air, and is based in Paris. It operates in more than 70 countries and is the second-largest supplier of industrial gases by revenue, after Linde. Selebi-Phikwe takes its name from two separate places, Selebi and Phikwe. After copper-nickel deposits were found there in the 1960s, a mine and a township were built; nickel mining began in 1973, and the BCL mine ceased operating in September 2016, putting thousands out of work. The town is administered separately from the surrounding Central District and had 42,488 residents at the 2022 census. The Selebi-Phikwe site has not published opening hours, contact details or a product list online. Air Liquide Botswana's number, as given on its website, is +267 391 2988.

2VW7+WG6, Selebi Phikwe, Botswana
Selebi Phikwe

21°57′10″S 27°51′50″E