12.1
billion dollars in sales
Welcome to Air Products
Motivated by our Higher Purpose and with Sustainability as the foundation, the people of Air Products are committed to generating a cleaner future.
We serve a broad range of industries, including refining, chemicals, metals, electronics, manufacturing, and food, providing essential industrial gases, technologies and applications expertise that enhance our customers’ sustainability and improve their operations. And as the leading global supplier of hydrogen, we are accelerating the energy transition through clean hydrogen megaprojects to decarbonize the hardest-to-abate industrial and heavy-duty transportation sectors.
Founded in 1940, Air Products has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, and an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities and the world.
Air Products by the Numbers
~23,000
employees worldwide
~50
countries where we operate
>65
billion dollars in market cap
>8
decades in business
>250,000
customers
1,800
miles of industrial gas pipeline
750+
production facilities
30+
industries served
Our Strategy for Success
Air Products will be the safest, most diverse, and most profitable industrial gas company in the world, providing excellent service to our customers.
At Air Products, our journey is never complete. Our Five-Point Plan will shape our growth and move us forward over the coming years.
Valuing Our Differences
The unique perspectives and experiences our employees bring to their work are essential to meeting our customers’ needs and bringing innovation to the wide range of markets we serve, from food processing to metals processing to transportation.
That is why we’ve set a goal to become the most diverse industrial gas company in the world and why we foster a collaborative and respectful work environment where everyone can achieve their true potential.
How Our Products Advance Everyday Life
You probably don't know it, but Air Products is part of hundreds of everyday things. Our gases enhance the quality of the frozen foods you eat, make your flat-screen LCD TV look amazing, and enable MRI images of your body to help doctors treat your injury... and those are just a few of the many ways we advance your everyday life.
History of Innovation for 80+ Years
Words like entrepreneurship, sales, finance, engineering, and technology are central to the history of Air Products. So are concepts like developing lasting relationships with our customers and communities based on an understanding of their needs, integrity in the way we do business, and a passion for exceeding expectations.
The early part of the Air Products story shaped an important chapter in the broader history of the industrial gas industry. In the decades that followed, the company owed much of its success to the know-how and innovative spirit of its employees—and the willingness to seize opportunities for growth.
2023 Annual Report
Generating a Cleaner Future
(Excerpt from Seifi Ghasemi's 2023 Shareholder Letter)
At Air Products, we have built an outstanding organization. Our people are creating innovative technologies, processes, and facilities to address the world’s most significant environmental and sustainability challenges. As of the end of fiscal 2023, we have committed approximately $15 billion to projects intended to accelerate the energy transition, including those that will deliver low- and zero-carbon hydrogen at scale to decarbonize heavy-duty transportation and industrial sectors. We are doing this alongside our excellent core industrial gas business, which is delivering significant efficiency and productivity benefits and improving environmental performance for our customers around the world.
I would like to thank each of our talented, dedicated, and motivated employees for their exceptional contributions to our strong fiscal 2023 performance. I am honored every day to be working alongside this team, which continues to focus on delivering near-term results while executing on our long-term growth strategy. Working together, we continue to build a diverse and inclusive culture where 23,000 people can feel they belong and matter…
Real actions. Real commitments to Sustainability.
Air Products is committed to generating a cleaner future for our world. This commitment is guided by our Higher Purpose to bring people together to collaborate and innovate solutions to the world’s most significant energy and environmental sustainability challenges. Sustainability provides the foundation for our efforts to generate a cleaner future with our customers and within our company, and our committed people make it all happen.
Visit our Sustainability page to learn more.
Lehigh Valley Grant Program
The Air Products Foundation is proud to support our global headquarters community in eastern Pennsylvania through the Lehigh Valley Grants Program.