Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is an international corporation whose principal business is selling gases and chemicals for industrial uses. Air Products' headquarters is in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Air Products is the Lehigh Valley's third largest employer, after Lehigh Valley Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital. It is largest industrial gas company in North America
Distribution Strategy
Air Products serves customers in technology, energy, healthcare, food and industrial markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of products, services and solutions. It is a large provider of atmospheric gases (mainly oxygen, nitrogen and argon, hydrogen, carbon monoxide), process and specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates.
Air Products has built leading positions in key growth markets such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction, epoxy additives, advanced coatings and adhesives. It is also noted as growing its portfolio of solutions to address the hydrogen fuel cell economy through hydrogen fueling stations as well as its personal care chemicals business. Air Products also provides the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that provide fuel for the Space Shuttle External Tank. Air Products has had a working relationship with NASA for 50 years. In fact, Air Products has supplied all the liquid hydrogen used for every Space Shuttle launch and prior Mercury and Apollo missions. Provides Air Products a highly efficient re-entry into U.S. packaged gas market and its global infrastructure enables more rapid Airgas international expansion
On February 11, 2010, Air Products Distribution, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products"), commenced a cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Airgas, Inc. ("Airgas") not already owned by Air Products, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated as of February 11, 2010 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The purchase price to be paid upon the successful closing of the cash tender offer is $60.00 per share in cash, without interest and less any required withholding tax, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, as amended. The offer is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time, on Friday, April 9, 2010, unless further extended in the manner set forth in the Offer to Purchase
This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The tender offer is being made pursuant to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related letter of transmittal and other offer materials) filed by Air Products with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) on February 11, 2010. Invsetors and security holders of Airgas are urged to read this and other documents filed with the SEC carefully in their entirely because they contaon important information about the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders can obtain free copies of these documents and other documents filed with the SEC by Air Products through the web site maintained by the SEC at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page). The Offer to Purchase and related materials may also be obtained for free by contacting the Information Agent for the tender offer, In connection with the proposed transaction, Air Products may file a proxy statement with the SEC. Any definitive proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders of Airgas. On February 11, 2010, Air Products Distribution, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products"), commenced a cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Airgas, Inc. ("Airgas") not already owned by Air Products, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated as of February 11, 2010 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The purchase price to be paid upon the successful closing of the cash tender offer is $60.00 per share in cash, without interest and less any required withholding tax, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, as amended. The offer is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time, on Friday, April 9, 2010, unless further extended in the manner set forth in the Offer to Purchase
This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The tender offer is being made pursuant to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related letter of transmittal and other offer materials) filed by Air Products with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) on February 11, 2010. Invsetors and security holders of Airgas are urged to read this and other documents filed with the SEC carefully in their entirely because they contaon important information about the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders can obtain free copies of these documents and other documents filed with the SEC by Air Products through the web site maintained by the SEC at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page). The Offer to Purchase and related materials may also be obtained for free by contacting the Information Agent for the tender offer, In connection with the proposed transaction, Air Products may file a proxy statement with the SEC. Any definitive proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders of Airgas.
Distribution Strategy
Air Products serves customers in technology, energy, healthcare, food and industrial markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of products, services and solutions. It is a large provider of atmospheric gases (mainly oxygen, nitrogen and argon, hydrogen, carbon monoxide), process and specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates.
Air Products has built leading positions in key growth markets such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction, epoxy additives, advanced coatings and adhesives. It is also noted as growing its portfolio of solutions to address the hydrogen fuel cell economy through hydrogen fueling stations as well as its personal care chemicals business. Air Products also provides the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen that provide fuel for the Space Shuttle External Tank. Air Products has had a working relationship with NASA for 50 years. In fact, Air Products has supplied all the liquid hydrogen used for every Space Shuttle launch and prior Mercury and Apollo missions. Provides Air Products a highly efficient re-entry into U.S. packaged gas market and its global infrastructure enables more rapid Airgas international expansion
On February 11, 2010, Air Products Distribution, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products"), commenced a cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Airgas, Inc. ("Airgas") not already owned by Air Products, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated as of February 11, 2010 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The purchase price to be paid upon the successful closing of the cash tender offer is $60.00 per share in cash, without interest and less any required withholding tax, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, as amended. The offer is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time, on Friday, April 9, 2010, unless further extended in the manner set forth in the Offer to Purchase
This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The tender offer is being made pursuant to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related letter of transmittal and other offer materials) filed by Air Products with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) on February 11, 2010. Invsetors and security holders of Airgas are urged to read this and other documents filed with the SEC carefully in their entirely because they contaon important information about the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders can obtain free copies of these documents and other documents filed with the SEC by Air Products through the web site maintained by the SEC at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page). The Offer to Purchase and related materials may also be obtained for free by contacting the Information Agent for the tender offer, In connection with the proposed transaction, Air Products may file a proxy statement with the SEC. Any definitive proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders of Airgas. On February 11, 2010, Air Products Distribution, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. ("Air Products"), commenced a cash tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Airgas, Inc. ("Airgas") not already owned by Air Products, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated as of February 11, 2010 (the "Offer to Purchase"). The purchase price to be paid upon the successful closing of the cash tender offer is $60.00 per share in cash, without interest and less any required withholding tax, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, as amended. The offer is scheduled to expire at midnight, New York City time, on Friday, April 9, 2010, unless further extended in the manner set forth in the Offer to Purchase
This communication does not constitute an offer to buy or solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The tender offer is being made pursuant to a tender offer statement on Schedule TO (including the Offer to Purchase, a related letter of transmittal and other offer materials) filed by Air Products with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) on February 11, 2010. Invsetors and security holders of Airgas are urged to read this and other documents filed with the SEC carefully in their entirely because they contaon important information about the proposed transaction. Investors and security holders can obtain free copies of these documents and other documents filed with the SEC by Air Products through the web site maintained by the SEC at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Home Page). The Offer to Purchase and related materials may also be obtained for free by contacting the Information Agent for the tender offer, In connection with the proposed transaction, Air Products may file a proxy statement with the SEC. Any definitive proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders of Airgas.