Leonard Parker Pool founds Air Products in Detroit, Michigan, on a simple, but revolutionary, idea: the "on-site" concept of producing and selling industrial gases.
Air Products leases its first oxygen gas generator to a small Detroit steel company.
Air Products secures a contract with Weirton Steel Company in West Virginia to lease three generators that produce six tons per day of oxygen.
Air Products enters the international market for industrial gases through Air Products (Great Britain), Ltd., a joint venture with the Butterley Company.
Air Products begins manufacturing chemicals through a joint venture to convert refinery by-products into oxo-alcohols for use in producing plasticisers.
Air Products develops a process for the recovery of helium from natural gas, along with the process to liquefy natural gas using a heat exchanger.
Air Products is awarded a 12-year $287 million contract from NASA to supply liquid hydrogen to the United States' new space shuttle program.
The company forms an environmental and energy systems business to focus on power generation, air pollution control, and energy recovery from solid waste.
Air Products establishes a new company in Singapore, forms a joint venture in Indonesia, and opens new facilities at Tsukuba, Japan, to supply products to the Asia semiconductor market.
The company strengthens its worldwide leadership in natural gas liquefaction process technology by introducing a debottlenecking process that enables as much as a 60 percent capacity increase in production without sacrificing existing efficiency.
Air Products commissions its new hydrogen fuelling station at the company’s global headquarters in Allentown, Pa. Part of the Hydrogen Education Initiative, funded largely by the Federal Transit Administration, the station enables hydrogen-powered transportation vehicles to get out into the community to help educate the public about hydrogen and its capabilities.
In China, Air Products lands its two largest ASU orders ever, the first with Shaanxi Future Energy Chemical Co., Ltd., (12,000 TPD of oxygen) and the second with Shanxi Lu’An Mining (Group) Co., Ltd., (10,000 TPD of oxygen). The ASUs are driven by large-scale coal gasification and petroleum projects throughout China.
In 2015, Air Products is awarded a contract by Saudi Aramco under a joint venture of Air Products and ACWA Holding to build, own and operate the world's largest industrial gas complex to supply Saudi Aramco refinery being built in Jazan, Saudi Arabia.
Air Products, ACWA Power and NEOM sign an agreement for a world-scale carbon-free hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy. Sited in NEOM, a new model for sustainable living located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the project will supply 650 tons per day of carbon-free hydrogen for transportation globally and save the world three million tons per year of CO₂.
