Air Products and Chemicals’ portfolio includes atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, and equipment and services. Air Products comprises of three segments: Chemicals, Gases and Equipment.
The Chemicals unit includes performance materials and chemical intermediates with its largest product line being performance polymers. The company's Gases segment includes its industrial gases, healthcare, power generation and flue gas treatment businesses. The Equipment division designs and manufactures cryogenic and gas processing equipm
ent.
Air Products states that it is transforming itself into a “more focused, less cyclical, higher growth and higher return” company. It has decide to explore the sale and restructuring of a major portion of its chemicals business such as the divesture of its amines business and its dinitrotoluene (DNT) plant in Geismar, Louisiana, US, and the acquisition of Tomah3 Products to grow its performance materials business.
In 2009 Air Products had sales of around $8bn and around 18,900 employees working in more than 40 countries.
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Key Personnel
Chairman, president and CEO: John McGlade
Director: Mario Baeza
Director: William Davis
Director: Michael Donahue
Director: Ursula Fairbairn
Director: Douglas Ford
Director: Edward Hagenlocker
Director: Evert Henkes
Director: Margaret McGlynn
Director: Charles Noski
Director: Lawrence Smith
(Updated October 2009)
Contacts
7201 Hamilton Boulevard
Allentown
Pennsylvania 18195-1501
US
Tel: +1 610 481 4911
Fax: +1 610 481 5900
Email: info@apci.com
http://www.airproducts.com/index.asp
Air Products
Company Structure
Air Products serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets worldwide with a portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, and equipment and services. Air Products was founded in 1940 with the concept of on-site production and selling of industrial gases, primarily oxygen.
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Strategy & Financial Highlights
Air Products states that it is transforming itself into a “more focused, less cyclical, higher growth and higher return” company. The reorganising of Air Products is believed to be consistent with its strategy of “going forward”. (Edited from: “2008 outlook” and 10-K annual report 2007). ICIS also provides you with key financial data listed in table form.
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