Air Products PLC
Hersham Place Technology Park
Molesey Road
Walton on Thames
Surrey
KT12 4RZ
T: 01932 249200
F: 01932 249565
www.airproducts.co.uk
Air Products was established in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, on the strength of a simple but then revolutionary idea: the on-siteĀ concept of producing and selling industrial gases, primarily oxygen. At the time, most oxygen was sold as a highly compressed gas product in cylinders that weighed five times more than the gas itself. Air Products proposed building oxygen gas generating facilities adjacent to large-volume users, thereby reducing distribution costs. The concept of piping the gas directly from the generator to the point of use proved sound and technically solvable.
