Linde to demonstrate its leading role in clean fuels at HANNOVER MESSE trade show (news with additional features) - Seite 2

viable option for motorists. As part of this programme, Linde will make its
Linde Hydrogen Center (LHC) near Munich accessible to the first wave of
hydrogen car drivers. Since 2006, Linde has been testing and demonstrating
its latest hydrogen refuelling, measuring and control technologies at the
LHC.

Another contribution to "HyFIVE" will be a new hydrogen station in Bolzano,
South Tyrol, Italy, which Linde has built for the Institute for Innovative
Technologies (IIT). The hydrogen will be produced locally via electrolysis
from renewable electricity. Starting in May 2014, the station will serve
five city buses and ten passenger cars operating in the region.

LNG replaces heavy oils and diesel

LNG is an economically viable bridging technology in the move towards more
sustainable mobility choices. As the most environmentally friendly of all
fossil fuels, LNG is a particularly attractive alternative to heavy oils or
diesel for shipping and trucking companies. Driven by increasingly strict
emission thresholds, demand for LNG is rising in these and other
industries.

In Rotterdam, in the Netherlands - this year's official partner country of
the fair - Linde is currently assembling an LNG refuelling station for
heavy goods vehicles. Linde's customer, IDS (International Diesel
Services), a division of Kuwait Petroleum International, will start
supplying LNG to vehicles by mid-2014. Dual-fuel operation in trucks
significantly reduces diesel consumption, thus cutting CO2 emissions by 10
to 14 per cent, sulphur oxide by 90 and nitrogen oxide by 80 per cent.

Also German shipping company AG EMS has decided to rely on LNG: the company
will convert its vessel 'MS Ostfriesland' to LNG by mid-2014. Germany's
first LNG-powered ferry will be supplied by Bomin Linde LNG, a joint
venture formed in 2012 together with ship fuels specialist Bomin. LNG
terminals are planned at several locations, so that, from 2015, all German
ports on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea will have a source of
environmentally-friendly liquid gas.

All visitors are welcome to visit Linde's stand in hall 27 from 7 - 11
April 2014 in Hanover. The company will be presenting a host of clean
technologies - including those outlined above.


In the 2013 financial year, The Linde Group generated revenue of EUR 16.655
bn, making it the largest gases and engineering company in the world with
approximately 63,500 employees working in more than 100 countries
worldwide. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term
profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international