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Air Products - Company profile

Industry Chemicals
Company type Public
Year founded 1940
Revenues in 2007 US$ 10 billion
Global headquarters Pennsylvania, USA
# Countries active 40
# Employees worldwide 22,000
Most common preferred study background
  • Engineering
  • Natural sciences
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Required skills

Leadership 7
Team working 7
Problem solving 7
Communication 6
Creativity 6
Commercial Awareness 6
Pressure Resistance 7
Flexibility 7
Networking 7

Activities

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. 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. Air Products has annual revenues of $10 billion, operations in over 40 countries, and 22,000 employees around the globe.

Air Products is a multinational industrial gases and chemicals company recognised as the fourth largest industrial gases supplier in the world and second largest in Europe. With offices in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic and Ireland, we are the most 'European' of the industrial gases companies.

Air Products' core business in Europe is the supply of industrial gases including oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen, helium and a broad range of special gases. These gases are essential to the manufacturing process of almost everything we need, use and buy.

Air Products supplies a vast range of industry sectors including aerospace, healthcare, electronics, food and metals processing, chemicals and refining, pulp and paper and oil and gas production and recovery. We have leadership positions in a variety of markets, and in particular we are the world's leading supplier of hydrogen and helium.

Using the most advanced technology, Air Products also designs and manufactures cryogenic and non-cryogenic equipment for air separation, natural gas liquefaction, hydrogen purification and other gas processing applications.

Our European-based chemicals business is an expanding sector that has developed rapidly in the approach to the millennium. Air Products' Chemicals Group has leadership positions in 80% of the markets it serves. Our Chemicals Group manufactures Epoxy Additives, Polyurethane Additives, Amines and other industry chemicals.

Who we look for

A Chemical, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering degree required for opportunities in:
  • Engineering
  • Operations
  • Customer Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Research & Development

Marketing

Business related, Science or Engineering degree required.

Sales
Engineering or Science degree required.

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