Air Products

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Air Products serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, and equipment and services.

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.

Air Products has annual revenues of $9 billion, operations in over forty countries, and over twenty thousand employees around the globe.

Announced August 29, 2007, a hydrogen fuel cell forklift demonstration program is a continuation of Air Products' work in the hydrogen-powered forklift market. Air Products has been participating in similar work at a manufacturing and assembly plant in Tennessee since January 2006 and a grocery chain warehouse in Texas since March 2007. The projects include providing indoor hydrogen fueling station infrastructure for fueling hydrogen-powered forklifts and automated guided vehicles powered by hydrogen.

Air Products has more than fifty years of hydrogen experience and is on the forefront of hydrogen energy technology development. As the world's largest supplier of merchant hydrogen, Air Products is a leader in the development of the hydrogen infrastructure necessary to fuel hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen internal combustion engine automobiles, HCNG (hydrogen/ compressed natural gas) vehicles, and indoor dispensing stations for forklift applications in manufacturing facilities and warehouses. Air Products has placed over seventy hydrogen fueling stations on stream in twelve countries, including stations in Beijing, China that will fuel buses shuttling athletes and visitors for the 2008 Olympic Games. Over 36,000 vehicle fuelings worldwide have already taken place using Air Products' technology. The company has an extensive patent portfolio, with more than fifty patents in hydrogen dispensing technology.

Founded: 1940

Website: http://www.airproducts.com/

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