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Air Products Acquires MarkWest Hydrogen Production Facility
2009.09
September 2, 2009 – Air Products global industrial gas provider, has purchased a new steam methane reformer (SMR) hydrogen facility under construction in Corpus Christi, Texas, from MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. The companies also signed a long-term supply agreement whereby Air Products will provide hydrogen and steam to MarkWest.  

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Air Products and Samsung Win ASU Contract in Saudi Arabia
2009.09
September 21, 2009 – Air Products, with Samsung Engineering, secured a contract for an air separation unit to supply National Industrial Gases Co., a subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation. The ASU will produce 3,550 tons per day of oxygen, 3,600 tpd of nitrogen, and 150 tpd of argon. 

Full story: www.airproducts.com

Air Products Announces Industrial Gas Price Increases
2009.09
September 15, 2009 – Effective October 1 or as contracts permit, Air Products will increase pricing and monthly service charges for North American merchant customers on liquid oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and liquid and bulk hydrogen by four to eight percent; and liquid and bulk helium by five to 10 percent. 

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Air Products Gains Foothold in Emerging India PV Market
2009.09
September 09, 2009 –INOX Air Products Ltd., has signed two new contracts with leading Indian photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers HHV Solar Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Jupiter Solar Power Ltd, for the company’s SunSource™ Solutions gases and materials to support the burgeoning India PV market. 

Full story: www.airproducts.com

Air Products’ ASUs to Supply Industrial Gases to Xingtai Steel
2009.09
September 10, 2009 – Air Products has signed a contract to purchase and operate four existing air separation units (ASUs) and build a new air separation unit to supply industrial gases to Xingtai Iron and Steel Corporation, Ltd., one of China’s largest specialty steel manufacturers located in Hebei province, China. 

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Airgas Joins S&P 500
2009.09
September 8, 2009 – According to Standard and Poor's, at the end of trading today, Airgas will assume a place on the S&P 500 stock index. Airgas will replace Cooper Industries Ltd., which is in the process of relocating its headquarters to Ireland. 

Full story: www.airgas.com

Airgas’ AiRx™ Diesel Exhaust Fluid Receives API Certification
2009.09
September 17, 2009 – Airgas, Inc. the largest US distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, announced its AiRx™ Diesel Exhaust Fluid has been certified by the American Petroleum Institute (API). Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) is used in Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology to reduce harmful diesel exhaust pollutants. 

Full story: www.airgas.com

ASU to Supply PetroChina Facility and Air Products’ Merchant Customers
2009.09
September 23, 2009 – An Air Products company in Sichuan, China will build an air separation unit for PetroChina Company Limited that will supply oxygen and nitrogen to PetroChina’s main refinery and ethylene complex in Sichuan, and produce liquid products for Air Products’ merchant gases customers in the Chengdu area. 

Full story: www.airproducts.com

Largest European Nitrogen Production Unit for German PV Industry
2009.09
September 21, 2009 – Air Liquide will build a dedicated on-site production unit, due to start up in 2010, to serve all customers in Thalheim, Germany, Europe’s largest “Solar Valley”. The unit will produce more than 38,000 tons per year of nitrogen and represents an investment of around EUR 10 million. 

Full story: www.airliquide.com

Linde Establishes R&D Center in Shanghai
2009.09
September 16, 2009 – The Linde Group has become the first industrial gases company to own a research and development (R&D) center in China by inaugurating one in Shanghai. The Linde Technology Centre will develop new high-tech industrial gas applications and solutions in China and the Asia Pacific region. 

Full story: www.linde.com

Linde Focuses on Reducing Carbon Footprint of Solar Cells
2009.09
September 22, 2009 – In a run up to the largest Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Linde Gases, a division of industrial gas company The Linde Group, is encouraging the PV industry to address the carbon footprint of PV module manufacturing. 

Full story: www.linde.com

Linde Launches Breakthrough Cryogenic Freezing Technology
2009.09
September 3, 2009 – Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, has launched its new CRYOLINE® range of cryogenic freezers for maximum hygiene, increased yield, and traceability. 

Full story: www.linde.com

Praxair Selected for Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index
2009.09
September 23, 2009 – For the second consecutive year, industrial gases company Praxair, Inc. is included in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. This index recognizes leaders in climate change disclosure practices, based on their responses to an annual questionnaire. 

Full story: www.praxair.com

Propane Wins Big
2009.09
September 1, 2009 — Propane won big in the $300 million US DOE grants announced last week. The grants, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus bill, award more than $33.5 million to dedicated propane projects and millions more to projects that include propane among other alternative fuels. 

 

Air Products Continues to Grow Market Share in Asia
2009.09
September 30, 2009 – Air Products, through its subsidiary Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd. in Taiwan, will provide nitrogen through its pipeline network to NexPower Technology Corporation at its new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan. 

Full story: www.airproducts.com

Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives, L.P., Commemorates 10th Anniversary
2009.09
September 28, 2009 – Employees honored entrepreneurs Chris Carr, Dean Corbin, Hector Villarreal, and Jim O’Neil at a barbeque luncheon on September 24th to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the founding of Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives™ (CVA). CVA, headquartered in Mont Belvieu, Texas, manufactures cryogenic transportation equipment, with facilities in Canada, China, and Turkey. 

Full story: www.cvatanks.com

Air Products Announces Executive Changes
2009.09
September 28, 2009 – Air Products has made a number of recent executive changes, effective October 2009. Alexander W. Masetti has been appointed Vice President, Continuous Improvement;Wilbur W. Mok will succeed Masetti as Vice President, North America Tonnage Gases; and Michael A. Olivares has been appointed Vice President, International. 

Full story: www.airproducts.com

Air Products Named to Carbon Disclosure Project’s Leadership Index
2009.09
September 23, 2009 – The Carbon Disclosure Project, which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world, has recognized Air Products’ approach to climate change disclosure and named the company to its S&P500 Leadership Index for 2009.  

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Praxair China Wins Pharmaceutical Contract
2009.09
September 23, 2009 – Praxair China installed its NCOOL™ cryogenic heat exchanger system at Shanghai The First Biochemical & Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an affiliate of Shanghai Pharmaceutical (Group) Ltd. This is the first liquid nitrogen supply contract Praxair China has signed employing its NCOOL system in a pharmaceutical freeze dryer. 

Full story: www.praxair.com

Linde Launches CRYOWAVE™ Hygienic Tunnel Freezer
2009.09
September 23, 2009 – Linde North America has launched the CRYOWAVE™ hygienic tunnel freezer, which uses liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide to rapidly crust freeze, maintaining product quality and yield. This cryogenic freezer is part of the industrial gas company’s newly launched CRYOLINE® family of hygienic freezers. 

Full story: www.linde.com