Praxair supplies atmospheric, process and specialty gases, high-performance coatings, and related services and technologies to a wide range of industries. Its businesses cover industrial gases, industrial gases distribution, surface technologies, services and systems and equipment. 
Praxair will concentrate its resources on four markets that it feels will generate above-average growth in the years ahead, these being energy, healthcare, electronics, and Asia. Demand increased for its nitrogen and carbon dioxide used to pressurise reservoirs of oil and natural gas, and demand for Praxair's hydrogen is expected to grow along the US Gulf Coast.
Praxair with headquarters in Danbury, CT, has operations in 30 countries, 26,936 employees and sales of $10.8bn (2008).
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Key Personnel
Chairman, president and CEO: Stephen Angel
Director: Nance Dicciani
Director: Edward Galante
Director: Claire Gargalli
Director: Ira Hall
Director: Raymond Leboeuf
Director: Larry McVay
Director: Wayne Smith
Director: Mitchel Watson
Director: Robert Wood
(Updated June 2009)
Contacts
Praxair Inc
39 Old Ridgebury Road
Danbury, CT 06810-5113
US
Tel: +1 716 879 4077
Fax: +1 716 879 2040
www.praxair.com
Praxair
Company Structure
Praxair supplies atmospheric, process and specialty gases, high-performance coatings, and related services and technologies to a wide range of industries such as aerospace, food and beverages, healthcare, semiconductors, chemicals, refining, ore and gas production, primary metals and metal fabrication, as well as other areas of general industry. Praxair was founded in 1907 and became an independent publicly traded company in 1992.
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Strategy & Financial Highlights
Praxair will concentrate its resources on four markets that it feels will generate above-average growth in the years ahead, these being: energy, healthcare, electronics, and Asia. Demand increase for its nitrogen and carbon dioxide used to pressurise reservoirs of oil and natural gas, and demand for Praxair's hydrogen is expected to grow along the US Gulf Coast at around 20%/year through to 2010. (Edited from annual report and company website). ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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