From humble beginnings over sixty years ago manufacturing oxygen generators, Air Products today is a diversified, international company with over 17,000 employees and operations supplying gases, chemicals, equipment and expertise in over 30 countries. We are a market leader in the global electronics and chemical processing industries, and a long-standing innovator in many industrial markets.

Today, about half of our total sales are to the petroleum refining and Chemical Process Industries (CPI). Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. is the world's only combined gases and chemicals company. Being a CPI company too, we understand and face the same industry pressures that you and your customers do—such as safe and reliable operations, environmental compliance, resource prioritization and profitable growth.

Our growth and success can be attributed to our companywide approach to business: understand your customers' needs and expectations, and then use superior technology to meet them. Air Products' founder, Leonard Pool, developed a new and innovative business model to launch our company in 1940. He designed and built novel, superior oxygen generators to provide customers with a safe, economical and reliable long-term gas supply at their plant sites. Business and Technical Innovation continue to be the engine by which we provide value and competitive advantage to our customers.

The Air Products penchant for getting at the heart of the issues and developing innovative solutions stems from our culture which is best expressed by our brand "tell me more"—the heart of a meaningful conversation designed to share knowledge and understanding for mutual benefit. This CPI website, where you will find information on our major offerings to the refining and chemical processing industries, is the beginning of that conversation. We hope this prompts ideas as to how we can help you operate cleaner, smarter and more.