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.

空氣化工產品有限公司(紐約證交所證券代碼APD) 在全球范圍內為科技，能源，醫(yī)療保健和工業(yè)制造等領域的客戶提供獨特的產品、服務、和解決方案。作為世界上唯一的同時生產氣體產品和化學品的公司，除了工業(yè)氣體產品，工藝和特種氣體產品之外，還提供相關設備，特種化學品和化學中間體產品。自1940年創(chuàng)立以來，空氣化工產品公司不僅在主要市場上居于領先地位,而且一直以創(chuàng)新的企業(yè)文化、完善的管理和對環(huán)境及安全的承諾得到廣泛的認可。其業(yè)務遍及40多個國家，年銷售額為90億美元，擁有20,000名雇員，在理解、誠信和熱情的基礎上與客戶成為牢固地合作伙伴并建立持久良好的合作關系。

空氣化工產品公司也是中國最大的工業(yè)氣體產品公司之一，通過提供一系列高質量的氣體產品包括普通空氣氣體產品如氧氣、氮氣和氬氣，到特種氣體如氦氣、氫氣和電子特氣等，以及各種化學品，為各行業(yè)大量的本地和跨國企業(yè)客戶提供優(yōu)質的產品和服務。