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March 17, 2010
Linde and its Linde LienHwa (LLH) subsidiary in China say they have signed several long-term gas supply contracts with leading solar manufacturers in China. The multi-million dollar...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Linde-Signs-Gas-Supply-Contracts-with-Solar-Manufacturers-in-China_25447.html
March 17, 2010
 Linde reported 2009 net income down 16%, to €653 million, on sales down 12%, to €11.2 billion. The gases division's operating profit slipped 2%, to €2.4 billion...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Lindes-Gases-Division-Reports-a-Fall-in-Full-Year-Results_25448.html
March 15, 2010
Linde says that BOC Pakistan (Karachi, Pakistan), which is part of the Linde group, will invest about €17 million ($24 million) to build a new air separation plant and related...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Linde-to-Build-Air-Separation-Plant-in-Pakistan_25393.html
March 15, 2010
Air Liquide says it will invest approximately €40 million ($54.4 million) in a 1,200-m.t./day air separation plant at Yichun, Heilongjiang Province...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Liquide-Builds-Air-Separation-Plant-at-Yichun-China_25402.html
March 10, 2010
Linde says its Linde Gases division has expanded and upgraded its specialty gases production plant at Johannesburg, South Africa. The €1.12-million investment involved a complete...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Linde-Expands-Specialty-Gases-Facility-in-South-Africa_25263.html
March 10, 2010
Airgas will issue $300 million in new senior debt in a public offering, the company announced today. The will carry an interest rate of 2.85% and come due in 2013. It will go towards...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Airgas-Issues-Debt-In-Spite-of-Hostile-Bid-Update_25270.html
March 5, 2010
The company says it has cushioned the impact of the economic crisis....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Lindes-Fourth-Quarter-Earnings-Rise_25199.html
March 4, 2010
Linde says its Linde Gases division has opened its previously announced helium production plant at Darwin, Australia. The plant...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Linde-Opens-Helium-Plant-in-Australia_25169.html
February 22, 2010
Airgas’s board of directors has recommended that its shareholders reject Air Products’ proposal to acquire Airgas through a hostile takeover. Air Products launched its...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Airgas-Urges-Shareholders-to-Reject-Air-Products-Bid_24918.html
February 15, 2010
Air Products appears to see big things in small packages, again. After a brisk exit from the North American packaged gases sector in 2002, it is seeking a grand reentrance via a...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Something-in-the-Air_24729.html
February 15, 2010
Air Products commenced a $5.1-billion hostile bid to acquire Airgas last week after several private and public approaches were rejected....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Products-Launches-Hostile-Bid-For-Airgas_24737.html
February 11, 2010
Air Products says it has commenced a fully financed hostile tender offer for all of Airgas's outstanding shares for $60/share. Air Products made an unsolicited $60/share bid for Airgas on February 5, which Airgas turned down. Airgas claims the $7-billion bid “very significantly undervalues Airgas and its future prospects.” Air Products, meanwhile, maintains that its offer will create more value "for Airgas shareholders than Airgas can achieve on a standalone basis."...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Products-Goes-Hostile-in-Bid-to-Acquire-Airgas_24709.html
February 9, 2010
Airgas has rejected Air Products' $7-billion takeover bid, noting that the offer “very significantly undervalues Airgas and its future prospects.” Air Products maintains that its $60/share offer will create more value "for Airgas shareholders than Airgas can achieve on a standalone basis."...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Airgas-Rejects-Air-Products-Takeover-Bid_24672.html
February 5, 2010
The bid values Airgas at $7 billion, and would create the largest industrial gases company in North America....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Products-Makes-Unsolicited-Offer-to-Acquire-Airgas_24609.html
February 5, 2010
Air Products has made a $7 billion hostile bid to takeover Airgas and move into the packaged gases market. The combination would create North America's largest industrial gases...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Weekly-Round-Up-February-5-Hostile-Gases_24625.html
January 25, 2010
Praxair's direct-injection technology, which uses nitrogen along with fuel gas to improve the heat-treating phase of steel production, will be installed at a planned steel mill in...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Praxair-Technology-to-be-Installed-at-Chinese-Steel-Mill_24339.html
January 22, 2010
Net income was $252 million ($1.16/share) for the quarter ended December 31, up 20% from the year-ago quarter excluding restructuring charges. Revenues fell 1% to $2.2 billion as lower energy and raw material costs more than offset higher volumes and favorable currency impacts....
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Products-Earnings-Up-20-percent-as-Volumes-Rebound_24314.html
January 21, 2010
Air Liquide says it will invest €30 million ($42 million) to increase production capacity of liquefied gases (oxygen, nitrogen and argon) by about 540 m.t./day in India. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Air-Liquide-to-Increase-Production-Capacity-in-India_24222.html
January 18, 2010
R&D projects already well underway within many gases firms are set to underpin a range of low-carbon technologies including capture and storage (CCS), algae-to-fuel, and systems...
http://www.chemweek.com/markets/industrial_gases/Gases-Firms-Develop-Next-Generation-Green-Products-Plug-into-CCS_24171.html
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