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