An Introduction to Praxair
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Praxair is a Fortune 300 industrial gas company with $10 billion in annual sales. It operates in over 30 countries and serves over 1 million customers worldwide in industries such as aerospace, chemicals, electronics, energy, food and beverage, healthcare, manufacturing, and metals. Praxair produces atmospheric gases through cryogenic air separation and non-cryogenic methods, as well as process gases. It provides gases, gas delivery systems, technical expertise and other services to help customers improve productivity and meet environmental and safety standards.
An Introduction to Praxair
- 1. Click to edit Master title style An Introduction to Praxair Making our planet more productive www.praxair.com Copyright © 2011 Praxair Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.
- 2. Praxair At A Glance A Fortune 300 company with 2010 sales of $10 billion One of the largest industrial gases companies worldwide and the largest in North and South America Operations in more than 30 countries 26,000 employees One million customers worldwide 2
- 3. Praxair At A Glance Markets Served Aerospace Food & Beverage Chemicals Healthcare Electronics Manufacturing Energy Metals – Petroleum Refining Varied smaller markets – Oil & Gas Production – Utilities/Gas Turbines – Solar, Biofuels Leader in advancing supply systems and equipment, and in developing applications technologies; about 3,000 active patents 3
- 4. A Sterling Reputation A component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index – 8 years Code of conduct ranked among top 10 chemical companies by Ethisphere magazine Regularly rated among the most shareholder-friendly chemical companies (Institutional Investor) 4
- 5. Sales by Markets Served Aerospace 3% Healthcare 10% Manufacturing 23% Energy 11% Electronics 9% Metals 16% Food and Beverage 7% Other 11% Chemicals 10% 5
- 6. An Industry Pioneer Established Leading- supplier Expanded U.S. positions in Acquired Liquid home healthcare China & India Carbonic business Introduced Doubled U.S. non-cryogenic Commercialized Oxy-fuel Opened Food hydrogen air separation oxygen-based technology Technology capacity advancements technologies for Introduced wins Center non- utility boilers & Started up Developed Kirkpatrick Introduced steel mills coatings cryogenic air Award Patented CoJet® Brazil’s first post- Company separation technology LNG plant technologies combustion Acquired founded & business in initiated Began doing Developed Expanded Formed first First nitrogen/ on-site gas business in remote offerings to Germany, joint venture in commercial slag- splashing supply Europe, process electronics packaged gases the Middle East oxygen plant technologies Mexico, monitoring markets businesses in in North Entered South Korea and control North America Entered America Brazilian Russian market market First distribution of liquefied gas 1907-1930 1940-1950 1950-1990 1990-2000 2000-2011 6
- 7. Strategic Global Position Industrial Gases Sales by Region Europe North 13% America Asia 51% 11% South America 19% Excludes worldwide sales of Praxair Surface Technologies (6% of total sales) 7
- 8. Global Market Total 2010 Industry Sales: $66 billion Praxair 14% Other 26% Air Products & Chemicals 13% AirGas 4% Taiyo Nippon Sanso 4% Linde 19% Air Liquide 20% Source: Spiritus Consulting Excludes non-gas sales 8
- 9. Sales by Distribution Method Packaged Gases 29% (cylinders & equipment) Merchant 30% Other 16% On-Site 25% (includes non-cryogenic) 9
- 10. Customer Benefits Praxair is a recognized leader in... Uninterrupted supply Expertise in the industries we serve Responsiveness to customer requirements Safety Praxair helps customers... Improve productivity Decrease energy consumption Produce higher quality products Cost-effectively achieve environmental and safety standards 10
- 11. Major Gas Products Atmospheric gases (derived from air) Oxygen, nitrogen, rare gases (argon, xenon, krypton, neon) Process Gases (derived from industrial processes or natural gas) Hydrogen, carbon dioxide, helium, acetylene Specialty Gases Electronics gases (arsine, phosphine, silane, mixtures) Instrument gases and mixtures 11
- 12. Services Design and installation of advanced gas-delivery systems Site-gas, utility and energy management Total materials management Safety and technical training Process analysis Pipeline leak detection, purging and cleaning services Inventory management Mobile nitrogen pumping services Enhanced oil and gas recovery services Food testing services Specialty gases analysis and testing Productivity-enhancing equipment management services 12
- 13. Air Separation – Cryogenic Distillation Nitrogen -320 °F Air Argon Filtration & -302 ° F Conditioning Oxygen -297 ° F Air Purify Liquefy by Separate cooling to by 78% nitrogen -320 ° F distillation 21% oxygen 1% other gases 13
- 14. Air Separation – Non-Cryogenic Oxygen Adsorbent Air Zeolites 14
- 15. Applications of Praxair products and technologies Healthcare Computer Chips Food & Beverage Metals Production Welding Special Effects Gasoline Production Oil & Gas Production Aviation 15
- 16. Applications MARKETS APPLICATIONS CUSTOMER BENEFITS PRODUCTS Metal Fabrication Welding & cutting Productivity, Cost Reduction Argon Product Quality Primary Combustion in electric arc furnaces Productivity, Energy Savings Oxygen Metals Refining of metal products Product Quality Cast iron melting in rotary furnaces Flexibility, Cost Reduction Argon Oxygen Chemicals & Vent-gas recovery of volatile organics Environmental Nitrogen Pharmaceuticals Vapor and liquid phase oxidation Productivity, Cost Reduction Oxygen Petroleum Catalyst regeneration Productivity Oxygen Refining Enhanced oil and gas recovery Productivity Nitrogen Gasoline reformulation Environmental Hydrogen Food Freezing and chilling Productivity. Flexibility Nitrogen, Shelf Life. Flavor, Safety Carbon dioxide Packaging Quality, Shelf Life Nitrogen Beverage Carbonation Quality Carbon dioxide 16
- 17. Applications MARKETS APPLICATIONS CUSTOMER BENEFITS PRODUCTS Electronics Semiconductor fabrication Productivity Total Materials Lower cost, Reliability Management Specialty Gases Atmosphere control Product quality Nitrogen Healthcare Respiratory assistance Patient health Medical Oxygen Magnetic resonance imaging Performance, Reliability Helium Metals & Heat treating Product Quality Gas Mixtures Materials Productivity Argon Processing Hydrogen Environmental Water treatment, pH control Emissions reductions/ Oxygen Remediation Flexibility Carbon Dioxide Whitening pulp and paper Chlorine Elimination Oxygen, Ozone Waste incineration Emissions reduction Oxygen Productivity 17