Air Products and Chemicals News

Air Products will release its fiscal 2008 first quarter financial results on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 before the stock market opens. via The South Mississippi Sun Herald

“The overall effort to get the nitrogen production facility on-stream as scheduled ran very smoothly and can be attributed to teamwork and collaboration.”

Air Products announced today that a new joint venture company with its Grupo Infra partner has started supplying 90 million standard cubic feet per day of nitrogen to Pemex Exploracion y Produccion . via WebWire

Air Products and Chemicals will sell its stake in a polymer joint venture to its partner, Wacker Chemie AG, for $265 million. via The Morning Call

“These changes in market perception have probably raised the level of risk for the new investor in Air Products shares”

A JPMorgan Securities Inc. analyst downgraded Air Products & Chemicals Inc., noting the stock's recent strong performance. via Forbes

The US Legal Newswire - Cravath represented Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., in the sale of its interest in its vinyl acetate ethylene polymers joint ventures to Wacker Chemie AG for $265 million. via LawFuel.com

Wacker to acquire full ownership of joint ventures with Air Products and Chemicals Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Munich/Lehigh Valley, PA -- Wacker Chemie AG has announced plans to acquire full ownership of Air ... via Rubber World

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. announced the sale Tuesday of a joint stake in a polymers business to partner Wacker Chemie AG for $265 million. via Easton Express-Times

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Goodrich Corporation has appointed Mike McAuley as Vice President and Treasurer. via Earth Times

Air Products & Chemicals, the Lehigh Valley, Pa., producer of industrial gases and specialty materials, definitively agreed to sell its interest in its vinyl acetate ethylene polymers joint ventures to Wacker ... via Market Watch

“Air Products' work with the PDEMS ILD process provides our customers with a proven technology to reach their roadmap targets on schedule”

Air Products , the leading worldwide supplier of low k materials, announced today it continues to further develop and extend its PDEMS interlayer dielectric process. via WebWire

One of the latest gadgets to hit the marketplace -- Amazon.com's Kindle e-book that lets users download books via wireless modem to a paperback-size electronic reader -- features some technology developed right here in the Lehigh Valley.

And depending on how it fares in the marketplace, the $400 device that offers access to 90,000 books, as well as newspapers and magazines, could be a boon for Air Products and Chemicals in Trexlertown, which helped develop the electronic display technology and makes components used in the device. Read more

Tamaqua Elementary School has received a $27,000 donation from Air Products and Chemicals to boost its science program. via The Morning Call

“This program provides another step forward for showing the potential of hydrogen as an alternate fuel for transportation vehicles.”

Air Products' hydrogen storage, compression and vehicle dispensing technology was formally placed into service at a hydrogen fueling station as Shell Hydrogen LLC, part of Royal Dutch Shell plc , cut the ribbon ... via Fuelcellworks

“The station clearly shows the commercial capabilities of our technology and the viability of it becoming a successful response to the growing demand for hydrogen fueling infrastructure across many different types of hydrogen fueling markets.”

Advanced Electrolysis Technology Helps to Demonstrate Hydrogen Vehicle Fueling Infrastructure At Filling Station in Suburban Westchester Distributed Energy Systems Corp. via Fuelcellworks

German company is also in talks to buy out Air Products in polymer joint ventures Patricia L. Short Wacker Chemie will invest more than $22 million to expand its biopharmaceutical operations in Jena, Germany. via Chemical & Engineering News

“Just to give you an idea of how much we fly, it's got 5,000 hours on the airframe. This (AIR 2) is a 38 year old aircraft, it's got 8,000 hours - you can see the short amount of time we've had AIR 1, we've flown quite a bit”

A new tool for the Austin Police Department will be flying the skies over Austin in the coming days. via KVUE.com

“Emerging threats in the Global War on Terror require more substantial Tactical Airborne Electronic Attack assets”

The $470 billion defense appropriations bill developed by House and Senate negotiators includes $9.4 million in earmarks for projects in the Lehigh Valley, according to U.S. Charlie Dent . via PennLive.com

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Air Products and Wacker Chemie AG are in advanced discussions over Wacker's purchase of Air Products' shareholdings in their two joint ventures, Wacker ... via Earth Times

“We commend the Korean government's commitment to furthering the use of hydrogen for fueling automobiles. Globally, we have placed more Air Products fueling equipment in Korea than any country outside of the United States”

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- When Air Products started-up its newest hydrogen fueling station in Seoul, Korea, it marked the fifth installation of its industry leading hydrogen fueling ... via Earth Times

“We increased sales outside the U.S. 11% and grew worldwide agriculture and nutrition segment sales 21%”

For most companies reporting, third-quarter results rise over last year's William Storck THE JULY-THROUGH-SEPTEMBER period was good to most chemical companies announcing third-quarter results. via Chemical & Engineering News