Air Products
serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets
worldwide with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty
gases, performance materials, and equipment and services. Founded in 1940, Air Products
has built leading positions in key growth markets such as semiconductor
materials, refinery hydrogen, home healthcare
services, natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives. Air Products
is recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence and
commitment to safety and the environment and is listed in the Dow Jones
Sustainability and FTSE4Good Indices.
Global Reach
Air Products
touches the lives of consumers around the globe in positive ways every day. The
company is recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence and
commitment to safety and the environment. Our aim at Air Products
is to develop lasting relationships with our customers and communities based
on human qualities: an understanding of their needs, integrity and honesty in
the way we do business, and a passion for exceeding expectations.
Air Product History
Air Products
was established in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, on the strength of a simple but
then revolutionary idea: the “on-site” concept of producing and selling
industrial gases, primarily oxygen. At the time, most oxygen was sold as a highly
compressed gas product in cylinders that weighed five times more than the gas
itself. Air
Products proposed building oxygen gas generating facilities adjacent to
large-volume users, thereby reducing distribution costs. The concept of
piping the gas directly from the generator to the point of use proved sound
and technically solvable.
Air Products Today
- More than 20,000 employees
around the world
- Operations in more than 40
countries
- Annual revenues of $9 billion
- Ranked 275th in sales among
Fortune magazine’s April 2007 list of the 500 largest U.S.
corporations
- Serving a Diversity of
Markets
Markets
Merchant Gases
Through our Merchant Gases business, Air Products
supply oxygen, nitrogen, argon, helium and hydrogen as well as certain medical
and specialty gases to a wide variety of industrial
and medical
customers. We deliver most gases via bulk supply, by tanker or tube trailer,
in liquid or gaseous form. For customers requiring small volumes, we supply
product in cylinders and dewars, or “packaged gases.” We also produce gases
for some customers via small cryogenic or non-cryogenic on-site generators
through sale of gas contracts and some sale of equipment.
Tonnage Gases,
Equipment and Energy
Tonnage Gases is our business supplying
large quantities of hydrogen, synthesis gas, carbon monoxide, oxygen and
nitrogen, mainly to petroleum refining, chemical
and metallurgical
customers under long-term contracts. We generally build a facility adjacent
to or nearby our customer’s facility and deliver product through a pipeline.
Our Equipment business provides liquefied natural gas (LNG) heat exchangers,
air separation plants, hydrocarbon recovery and purification equipment, and
helium distribution equipment to industry. Within Energy, Air Products
own and operate power generation and flue gas treatment facilities and are
developing technologies to serve energy markets of the future, including gasification
and alternative energy technologies.
Electronics
and Performance Materials
Through our Electronics
and Performance Materials business, Air Products
provide material solutions to a broad range of global industries, leveraging
our expertise in chemical synthesis, analytical technology, process
engineering and surface science. Air Products
supply specialty and tonnage gases, specialty and bulk chemicals, services
and equipment to the electronics industry for manufacturing silicon and
compound semiconductors, displays and photovoltaic devices. Air Products
also provide performance chemical solutions for the coatings,
inks, adhesives,
civil engineering, personal care, institutional and industrial
cleaning, mining, oil field, polyurethane and other industries.
Healthcare
Through our Healthcare
business, Air Products provide respiratory therapies, home medical
equipment and infusion services to more than 500,000 patients in their homes.
Air
Products operate in 15 countries and are the market leader in Spain, Portugal,
the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Our specialist teams serve patients with conditions ranging from chronic lung
disease, asthma and emphysema to sleep apnea. And we strive to improve their
quality of life, providing oxygen therapy, nebulizer therapy, sleep
management therapy, anti-infective therapy, beds and wheelchairs, and many
other products and services.
Products
Air Products
can supply a range of:
- Chemicals
- Gases
- Equipment and services