Nippon Gases Sustainability Report Boasts Ongoing Commitment

Thanks to the global shift towards decarbonisation, the growing role of hydrogen — as well as the advancement of AI — is revolutionising industries. 

Nippon Gases, which represents Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation (NSHD) in Europe, is a key player in this space, with three CO₂ ships, 14 pipelines and more than 1,000 trucks supplying its wide network of customers around Europe across industrial and medical gas.

As the fourth largest industrial gas company in Europe — thanks to an overall market share shy of 9% — Nippon Gases works with its customers to meet current standards for safety, environment and sustainability which, in turn, increases productivity, reduces energy consumption and produce high-quality products.

Among its offerings is green hydrogen, which it will begin producing in collaboration with  Terranova and Luminus in Belgium from 2025.

Nippon Gases’ sustainability promises

In a bid to decrease its impact on the environment, Nippon Gases has pledged to do the following:

This also extends to its partners and clients, with Nippon Gases pledging to ‘making life better through gas technology’.

Nippon Gases: 2024 Sustainability Report

“Sustainability is increasingly demanded by our stakeholders and through benchmarking and continuous improvement guided by our Sustainability Reports, we aim to meet these expectations and drive progress toward a carbon-neutral future by 2050,” said Joaquín González-Blas Sánchez, Energy & Sustainability Director of Nippon Gases.

The report, verified by EY, highlights Nippon Gases’ dedication to sustainability, showcasing progress in resource optimisation, energy efficiency, water usage, waste management and greenhouse gas reduction — all of which fall in line with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive’s requirements. 

“Central to our strategy is a commitment to innovation and people excellence,” Raoul Giudici, President of Nippon Gases added.

“By attracting and retaining top-tier talent and customers, embracing servitisation, harnessing AI for innovation and maintaining competitiveness in a dynamic market, we are poised for growth.”

Transforming gas production

Building on its more than a century of gas production expenses, Nippon Gases is keeping up with the times and focusing on making its production more sustainable. It is utilising its extensive existing infrastructure and retrofitting its old coal-fired boilers, which are now biomass-fired.

“Thanks to Oxygen Enhanced Combustion (OEC) technology, biomass can be used instead of coal,” the firm said.

In a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the body highlighted the role carbon capture and storage (CCS) plays in the transition to net-zero emissions.

“Since coal-fired power plants have a fairly long lifetime, and in order to meet climate constraints, there is a need either to apply CCS retrofit to some of today’s installed coal-fired power plants once the technology becomes available,” it said. “Another option would be to retire some plants before the end of their lifetime.”

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