P10 Inc
Business Description
Praxair, Inc. (Praxair or company) was founded in 1907 and became an independent
publicly traded company in 1992. Praxair was the first company in the United States
to produce oxygen from air using a cryogenic process and continues to be a major
technological innovator in the industrial gases industry.
Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America
and is rapidly growing in Asia, and has a well-established business in southern
Europe. Praxair?s primary products for its industrial gases business are atmospheric
gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, rare gases), process gases (carbon dioxide,
helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, acetylene). The company
also designs, engineers, and builds equipment that produces industrial gases
for internal use and external sale. The company?s surface technology segment,
operated through Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., supplies wear-resistant
and high-temperature corrosion-resistant metallic and ceramic coatings and powders.
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