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Air Products & Chem
Air Products & Chem is a publicly traded company having a good stock performance result. Air Products & Chem is a fortune 500 stock listed company trading under APD.
Air Products was founded by the late Leonard P. Pool in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, and worked on the revolutionary idea of "on-site" concept of producing and selling industrial gases, primarily oxygen. At the time, most oxygen was sold as a highly compressed gas in cylinders that weighed five times more than the gas product.
Air Products serves customers in technology, energy, healthcare and industrial markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of products, services and solutions, providing atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates. 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. The company is recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence and commitment to safety and the environment and is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability and FTSE4 Good Indices. The company has annual revenues of 8.1 billion dollars, operations in over 30 countries, and more than 20,000 employees around the globe.
Air Products plays a major role in the lives of consumers around the globe in positive ways every day. The company serves customers in healthcare, technology, energy, and industrial markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of products, services and solutions, providing atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates.
The company focuses mainly on metals manufacturing, processing and fabrication; food and beverage; refining and chemicals; aerospace; pharmaceuticals; power generation;pulp and paper; cement; agriculture; aquaculture; construction; packaging; rubber and plastics; transportation; wastewater treatment; research and analytical.
The company mainly offers merchant and specialty gases, gas mixtures, cryogenic and non-cryogenic on-site gas supply systems, cutting and welding supplies, gasapplications, productivity services, enabling equipment, liquefied natural gas (LNG) heat exchangers, oil/gas production and recovery equipment.
The company also focuses on home and home furnishings, automotive applications, agricultural chemicals, adhesives, solvents, coatings, water treatment chemicals, other industrial applications and for this they offers polyurethane intermediates, copolymer emulsions, higher amines, methylamines and derivatives, chemical applications, other services.
The company 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.
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