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LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) will highlight the company's fast and flexible industrial nitrogen services for short-term or emergency industrial gas supply needs at the Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management (PPIM) Conference in Houston, Texas, from February 12-14. Air Products Express Services (APEX) provides customers with a cost-effective, rapid response to their short-term nitrogen needs for a range of pipeline applications,...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) will highlight advances in its proprietary electron attachment (EA) technology for soldering applications at the IPC APEX Expo in San Diego, Calif., from February 19-21. IPC APEX attendees can stop by Air Products Booth #2708 to learn about the advantages of EA activated hydrogen over plasma-based and flux-based processes for cleaning soldering surfaces during electronics assembly and packaging. These...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Feb. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced that John D. Stanley has been appointed senior vice president, general counsel and chief administrative officer responsible for the company's Law, Corporate Secretary, Human Resources, Information Technology, Global Business Support Services, Mergers and Acquisitions, Communications, and Government Relations departments. Previously, Stanley was senior vice president and general counsel for Air...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- David H. Y. Ho, chairman of Kiina Investment, has been elected to Air Products' (NYSE:APD) board of directors. John McGlade, chairman, president and CEO of Air Products, noted that "David's extensive experience establishing and building businesses in China will bring significant value to the company as we execute on our strategy there." Based in Beijing, Ho, 53, is chairman and founder of Kiina Investment, a venture capital firm...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- "Like fossil fuels, helium is a finite resource. While the known supplies are sufficient to meet demand for more than 100 years, and with advances in exploration and drilling, chances are that we may find even more, this finite resource must be managed," is the message Walter Nelson, director of Helium sourcing at Air Products (NYSE: APD) delivered today at the European Industrial Gas Association (EIGA) Symposium in Brussels, Belgium....

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Described by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) as a milestone in DOE's Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) program, Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced today that Phase One of its two stage carbon capture project in Port Arthur, Texas is onstream. Ultimately, the project will capture approximately one million tons of carbon dioxide (CO(2)) annually to be recovered, purified by Air Products, and transported by Air...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- First Quarter Summary Sales of $2.6 billion up 10 percent versus prior year EPS up three* percent to $1.30 versus prior year Good volumes in Tonnage Gases and new wins from Gulf Coast Connection Pipeline $462 million share repurchase Air Products (NYSE: APD) today reported net income of $277 million and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.30, on a continuing operations basis, for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31,...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products' (NYSE: APD) proprietary hydrogen dispensing and infrastructure technology was featured today in Cleveland, Ohio where the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), in coordination with the NASA Glenn Research Center, held a hydrogen fuel cell bus program media event. Air Products provided the hydrogen fueling station dispensing unit, and hydrogen compression and storage technologies, which were installed...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) will highlight its Freshline® liquid nitrogen (LIN) tunnel freezers--which can freeze and chill poultry and meat faster than mechanical freezers six times their size--at the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Ga. from January 29-31. Among Air Products' featured Freshline® tunnel freezers are the Freshline® DM tunnel freezer, which allows manufacturers to process both IQF...

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) will release its fiscal 2013 first quarter financial results on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, before the stock market opens. The company will review these results later that day in a teleconference at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). The teleconference will be open to the public and the media in listen-only mode by telephone and Internet broadcast. Live teleconference: 719-325-4787Passcode:...