Keyword: Airgas

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Air Liquide Unveils Transformation Plan

08.07.2016 - Industrial gases giant Air Liquide has unveiled its transformation strategy for the next four years. Chairman and CEO Benoît Potier revealed the details of the company’s NEOS 2016...

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Air Liquide Selling Some US Assets to Matheson

30.06.2016 - French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has announced plans to sell a number of its US assets to Matheson Tri-Gas, a subsidiary of Japan’s Taiyo Nippon Sanso. The sale is...

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Air Liquide Completes Acquisition of Airgas

30.05.2016 - Air Liquide has completed its acquisition of US competitor Airgas for $10.3 billion, making the French company the world’s largest industrial gases and welding hardgoods...

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FTC Clears Air Liquide-Airgas Deal

17.05.2016 - The US Federal Trade Commission has approved the acquisition of US gases producer Airgas by French competitor Air Liquide, a deal announced in November 2015 and said at the time to...

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US Airgas Workers Strike Over Contract

14.03.2016 - After authorizing a strike two weeks earlier, the US Teamsters union local 100 in Cincinnati, Ohio, carried through with a 24-hour work stoppage at US industrial gases producer...

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Airgas Shareholders Vote on Takeover by Air Liquide

27.01.2016 - A special meeting of shareholders of US gases producer Airgas to approve the company’s pending acquisition by Air Liquide of France has been scheduled for February 23. Opposition...

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Airgas Buy Would Make Air Liquide Global Leader

19.11.2015 - French industrial gases producer Air Liquide – currently the world market’s second largest player behind Linde of Germany – has announced it will buy US rival Airgas for $13.4...

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Ackman’s Pershing Square unveils $2.2 Billion stake in Air Products

02.08.2013 - Hedge fund manager William Ackman unveiled his biggest bet ever on Wednesday, a $2.2 billion play on Air Products that the billionaire trader kept secret for two months. The...