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.

Over 65 Years of Growth

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 22,000 employees around the world

Operations in more than 40 countries

Annual revenues of $10 billion

Ranked 258th in sales among Fortune magazine’s May 2008 list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations

Serving a Diversity of Markets

Merchant Gases

Through our Merchant Gases business, we 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 noncryogenic 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, we 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, we provide material solutions to a broad range of global industries, leveraging our expertise in chemical synthesis, analytical technology, process engineering and surface science. We 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. We 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, we provide respiratory therapies, home medical equipment and infusion services to more than 500,000 patients in their homes. We 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.

空气化工产品有限公司(纽约证交所证券代码APD) 在全球范围内为科技，能源，医疗保健和工业制造等领域的客户提供独特的产品、服务、和解决方案。作为世界上唯一的同时生产气体产品和化学品的公司，除了工业气体产品，工艺和特种气体产品之外，还提供相关设备，特种化学品和化学中间体产品。自1940年创立以来，空气化工产品公司不仅在主要市场上居于领先地位,而且一直以创新的企业文化、完善的管理和对环境及安全的承诺得到广泛的认可。其业务遍及40多个国家，年销售额为90亿美元，拥有20,000名雇员，在理解、诚信和热情的基础上与客户成为牢固地合作伙伴并建立持久良好的合作关系。

空气化工产品公司也是中国最大的工业气体产品公司之一，通过提供一系列高质量的气体产品包括普通空气气体产品如氧气、氮气和氩气，到特种气体如氦气、氢气和电子特气等，以及各种化学品，为各行业大量的本地和跨国企业客户提供优质的产品和服务。